All Stratford Original Members can access subsidised waste and recycling through our partnership with First Mile. If you are interested in joining our recycling scheme and enjoying this benefit of being a bid member you can contact us today.

First Mile Collections

First Mile are unique in that we can collect different types of materials on one vehicle, because they take everything back to our sorting facility in West London, The Sacktory.

Because they have their own sorting facility, where they sort all the material collected before sending it to the dedicated individual processors.

This allows First Mile to increase their customer’s recycling without any additional environmental impact. You can find more information on the Smart Fleet here.

If you’re interested in how The Sacktory works, you can a virtual Sacktory Tour.

Recycling Rates

You can access all of your recycling and environmental impact data via your First Mile Reporting Portal.

To access your portal, go to the First Mile website and click ‘Log In’ at the top right of the screen, and navigate to your ‘Advanced Carbon Reporting’.

You can view all of your order data, your live recycling rate, and detailed data on the environmental impact of your business. Your recycling rate is calculated by looking at the amount of general waste your producing, combined with your recycling efforts from mixed recycling, cardboard, food recycling, and any other recycling services you have in place.

New recycling legislation is coming

There is new legislation coming in on the 31st March 2025 that will require all UK businesses to have a general waste, mixed recycling and food recycling service in place. Read more here.