D J Recycling handles commercial clearance and commercial waste removal for businesses across Worthing, Lancing, Littlehampton, Bognor Regis and the rest of Sussex. Shops, offices, pubs, hotels, warehouses and storage units.
We are a skip hire firm as well as a clearance firm, which means we will tell you honestly whether your job wants a crew, a container, or both. Most firms only sell you the one thing they own.
Whether you call it commercial property clearance, commercial waste clearance or just getting the unit emptied, it is the same job and we have done it in most kinds of building on this coast.
Jobs start at £70 +VAT and run to several thousand, which is why we price from photos instead of guessing. WhatsApp the pictures and you will have a figure the same day.
Call 01903 905 088 or WhatsApp us photos for a price the same day, Monday to Friday, 8am to 5pm.
This is the question worth settling before you ring anyone, because getting it wrong is where businesses waste money.
Plenty of jobs want both. On a refit we will drop a skip for the trades and bring a crew at the end for the things nobody wants to touch. See commercial skip hire for sizes and prices.
A strip out is everything non structural coming out so the next fit out can start. Partitions, suspended ceilings, floor coverings, kitchens, bathrooms, cabling, fixtures and fittings.
We do both halves. Our team takes out the partitions, ceilings, floor coverings, kitchens and fittings, and our own skips and lorries take the waste away as it comes out.
One firm, one price, and nobody stood waiting on anybody else. On most strip outs the waste is the part that holds the programme up, so having the containers and the labour under one roof is the whole point.
It is a different job from a clearance, because the waste arrives faster than any van can take it and it arrives in streams. Timber one day, plasterboard the next, metal after that.
On an office refurbishment that means planning the containers around the programme rather than reacting to it. Tell us the sequence in week one and the containers turn up when the trade does.
So we run skips on site and swap them as they fill, with separate containers where material has to be kept apart. Plasterboard cannot be mixed with general waste, and clean metal and timber are worth more separated.
See site clearance for the builders waste side, and grab hire when the volume outgrows skips.
Two things stop a strip out dead, and both are worth checking before anyone starts. Asbestos, and who the duty holder is. Both are covered below.
Under the Data Protection Act 2018 and UK GDPR, a business has to dispose of personal data securely once it is no longer needed. Leaving HR files in a skip is a data breach before it is anything else.
Here is the honest version, because it matters more than winning the job. We are a clearance company, not a confidential waste company. We do not shred to a data standard and we do not issue certificates of destruction.
So if the office you are clearing has personnel files, customer records, medical notes or anything else carrying personal data, that material wants a secure destruction service, not a clearance van.
What to look for in one: they should work to BS EN 15713:2023, use cross cut or micro cut shredding, and give you a certificate of destruction for every collection. That certificate is your evidence, and you stay the data controller whether you have it or not.
Everything else in the building, including the filing cabinets the records came out of, we will take.
We take computers, servers, printers and screens, and we handle them ourselves rather than passing them on.
Wipe the machines before they leave, or pull the drives out and keep them. That is the only way you can be certain, and it costs you nothing. If a drive holds anything sensitive and you cannot wipe it, send it to a data destruction specialist instead of putting it on any clearance van, ours included.
Monitors, printers, servers, fridges, freezers, air conditioning units and fluorescent tubes all have their own handling requirements, and they are business waste, which puts them under your duty of care.
They are also the most expensive thing in most clearances. West Sussex charges businesses £684 a tonne for cooling appliances, display equipment and tubes, against £244.80 for ordinary large and small appliances.
West Sussex County Council is blunt about it. Take commercial waste to a household recycling centre and staff will refuse you entry. Businesses have to use the council transfer stations or a licensed carrier.
Several of them are hazardous, which means a consignment note instead of an ordinary transfer note. See appliance collection for the fridge and freezer rules.
Most commercial clearances cannot happen at eleven on a Tuesday morning, because the business is open and the customers are in.
Early mornings and evenings are normal working for us, because on a trading shop or a hotel they are usually the only way the job happens at all.
Saturdays and Sundays we will also do, and they are quoted accordingly. A crew giving up a weekend costs more than a crew working a Tuesday, and we would rather put that in the price than pretend otherwise.
Tell us the window you have and we will tell you what it costs to work in it. A 6am start before a shop opens, an evening after a restaurant closes, a Sunday when the office is empty. All of it is possible, and the quote reflects which one you need.
There is no price list, because one job is a treatment room and the next is a pub. Our minimum charge is £70 +VAT and the biggest commercial jobs run into thousands, so the number comes from the photos.
These are the seven things that move it.
How much there is, in van loads or skip loads
Mixed waste costs more than separated. Electrical and upholstered items cost more again
Shop fit debris, tiles and rubble are priced by weight, not volume
Ground floor with a loading bay is not the same job as a third floor with no lift
A bay suspension or a long carry adds time to every trip
Out of hours, weekends and fixed handover dates affect the crew we need
Dismantling racking or taking a bar apart is work before it is waste
2 to 4 cubic yards
One office emptied, a few desks and chairs
An 8 yard builders skip
A small shop, a treatment room, a storage unit
A strip out or a refit running over days
These are guides. A unit full of cardboard and a unit full of tiles are the same size and very different jobs, which is why we ask for photos and not square footage.
Forget the environmental argument for a moment and look at the invoice. Here is what West Sussex County Council charges businesses at its own transfer stations from April 2026, including VAT.
Applies to domestic type seating, so a staff room sofa rather than a fixed booth
Two conditions worth knowing. Each category carries a minimum charge equal to half the tonne rate, so £124.80 on trade waste and £10.80 on paper and card, which means a small load never reaches the headline price.
And the council transfer stations take no construction or demolition waste from businesses at all, plasterboard included. They are open Monday to Friday only, 8.30am to 4.30pm, at Burgess Hill, Chichester and Crawley.
Separated paper and card costs around a twelfth of what the same tonnage costs as mixed trade waste. That gap is the whole reason a sorted clearance is cheaper than a skip full of everything.
Landfill tax moved the same way in April 2026. The standard rate went to £130.75 a tonne and the lower rate more than doubled to £8.65, so there is more upside in getting inert material into the right container than there was last year.
And since Simpler Recycling came in, separating is not optional anyway. More on that next.
Businesses carry obligations householders do not. Most firms we clear for know roughly what they are and are not sure of the detail, so here it is.
Already in force
Section 34 of the Environmental Protection Act 1990 makes you responsible for your waste even after it has left your premises. You have to take reasonable steps to make sure it only goes to an authorised person.
If a cheap clearance firm fly tips your waste, the paper trail leads back to your business. On conviction in the Crown Court the fine is unlimited.
The check takes a minute. Ask for the waste carrier registration number, which begins CBDU for an upper tier registration, and look it up on the Environment Agency public register. A commercial clearance firm needs to be upper tier, because it carries waste other people produced.
You need one for every transfer, signed by both parties, and you must keep it for two years. It has to describe the waste, give the quantity, the classification code, the time and place, both parties and your SIC code, and confirm the waste hierarchy was applied.
For a regular collection you can use a season ticket, which is one note covering a series of transfers of the same waste with the same carrier, lasting up to a year. If the waste type or the carrier changes, you need a new one.
Ask us for the paperwork at the point of collection and you will have it. A business is required to hold it, so it is worth asking rather than assuming.
Since 31 March 2025, businesses in England with 10 or more full time equivalent staff have had to separate dry recycling, food waste and residual waste. Paper and card must be kept apart from plastic, metal and glass.
Your collector can combine paper and card with the other dry recycling, but only after a written assessment showing separate collection is not practicable or brings no environmental benefit. Ask yours whether they have done one.
The thing that catches people out is how staff are counted. It is full time equivalent across the whole business, not per site. Three shops with five staff each is fifteen, so the rules apply at all three.
Businesses with fewer than 10 staff have until 31 March 2027. Waste from customers and visitors counts, and the Environment Agency enforces with compliance notices.
Digital waste tracking started on 1 October 2026 for permitted sites that receive waste. Carriers, brokers and dealers are expected to follow in October 2027.
It is designed to replace paper transfer notes and consignment notes eventually. It has not replaced them yet, so anyone telling you the paperwork has gone away is wrong. Keep your notes.
Fluorescent tubes, old monitors, fridges with refrigerant still in them and solvents are hazardous waste, and they need a consignment note instead of a transfer note.
Batteries, oils and paints are the ones people get wrong, because they go either way. Lead acid batteries are hazardous and sorted alkaline ones are not. Mineral oil is hazardous and fryer oil is not. Solvent based paint is hazardous and water based emulsion is not.
So they have to be classified before they are collected, not guessed at. Tell us what is there and we will tell you which paperwork it needs.
In England the consignment note code starts with a premises code made from the first six letters or numbers of your business name. The old premises registration was abolished in 2016, so if a form asks you for a registration number, it is out of date.
Under the Control of Asbestos Regulations 2012 there is a duty to manage asbestos in non domestic premises. The duty holder is whoever has a repairing obligation under the lease, or control of the building where there is no such obligation.
On a commercial unit that can be the landlord, the agent, the tenant, or several of them at once. Worth settling before a strip out begins, not halfway through one.
Our position is simple. We do not remove asbestos. If we find anything we suspect is asbestos, work stops in that area and we tell you straight away.
Most higher risk asbestos work must only be carried out by a contractor holding an HSE licence, and whether a particular job is licensable comes down to the risk assessment. Either way it is not us.
A call or an email with photos. The premises type, roughly what is in it, which floor, the parking and the date you need it gone.
A real figure, and an honest word on whether a skip would be cheaper. For bigger jobs we will come and look and give you a figure on the spot.
Early mornings, evenings, a weekend or a straight weekday, whichever keeps the business running. Tell us which when you send the photos and the quote comes back priced for it.
Our own crew and our own vehicles. Confidential waste kept separate, domestic type upholstered seating kept separate under the POPs rules, recycling segregated as we load.
Ask for a waste transfer note and you will get one, consignment notes where the waste is hazardous, and before and after photos if you are not on site.
Commercial clearance Worthing, commercial waste Lancing, commercial waste Littlehampton, commercial waste management Bognor Regis and commercial waste removal Durrington.
Also Shoreham-by-Sea, Southwick, Sompting, Goring-by-Sea, Tarring, Findon, Angmering, East Preston, Rustington, Arundel, Yapton, Ford, Storrington, Pulborough, Steyning, Henfield, Burgess Hill, Horsham, Chichester, Hove and Brighton.
See our service areas or contact us and we will tell you straight away whether we reach you.
WhatsApp us photos of what needs clearing and the date you need it gone by. You will have a price the same day.
Call 01903 905 088, Monday to Friday, 8am to 5pm, or send us the details.
D J Recycling, 1 Cumbrian Cl, Worthing BN13 2JF. info@dj-recycling.co.uk
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