Builders and maxi skips
The 6 to 12-yard open skips that suit most trade and site work, from fit-outs to renovations. Heavy, dense waste stays in the smaller sizes to keep within weight limits.
Compare skip sizes →Commercial skip hire
Commercial skip hire is skip and container hire for businesses, trades and sites: shops and offices, fit-outs and refurbishments, factories, and construction projects. It scales the same services up, from builders and maxi skips to RoRo containers and scheduled collections, and comes with the paperwork a business needs.
What commercial skip hire covers
The right option depends on how much waste there is, how dense it is, and the access on site.
RoRo containers
Roll-on roll-off containers, 20 to 40 yards, for high volumes of bulky, lighter waste on sites with room for a hook-loader lorry.
About RoRo hire →Wait-and-load
The lorry waits while the skip is loaded, then takes it away the same visit. Useful for town-centre sites and jobs with no room for a standing skip and no permit.
About wait-and-load →Regular collections
A skip or container swapped for an empty one on a set schedule, weekly or fortnightly, keeping a busy site clear with the paperwork in one account.
Find your local depot →Your duty of care
UK businesses have a legal duty of care for the waste they produce, set out in the Environmental Protection Act 1990. In practice that means the waste must be passed to a registered waste carrier, and you should keep the waste transfer note (or a season ticket covering a run of regular collections) as the record of where it went. A reputable skip operator is a registered carrier and issues that paperwork as a matter of course. The regulator is the Environment Agency in England, SEPA in Scotland, and Natural Resources Wales in Wales. Keeping the documentation is what protects the business if waste is ever traced back to it.
For businesses with regular waste, a trade account is usually available on application, typically on 30-day or 60-day terms subject to credit checks. Invoices itemise every collection on the account, and each booking still comes with its own waste transfer note, covering that duty of care.
Not sure what size you need?
Answer a few quick questions and the skip size calculator recommends the right size for the job, with capacity, weight notes and an indicative price.
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Commercial skip hire questions, answered
The questions that come up most around commercial and trade hire. The full set sits in the dedicated FAQ page.
