Understanding the waste management challenges in retail
Retail environments often generate high volumes of packaging, cardboard, plastics, food waste, and general waste, and often have their waste management restricted to tight back-of-house spaces. To support a clean, safe, welcoming store environment for customers, waste should be managed efficiently. Retail environments often generate high volumes of packaging, cardboard, plastics, food waste, and general waste, and often have their waste management restricted to tight back-of-house spaces. To support a clean, safe, welcoming store environment for customers, waste should be managed efficiently.
Extended trading hours, seasonal peaks, promotions, and high stock turnover place pressure on waste systems. Retailers need services that are reliable, flexible, and responsive, without disrupting store operations or customer experience. Cleanaway works with retailers to deliver practical waste and resource recovery solutions that help support clean stores, efficient operations, and safe working environments across single sites or large retail networks.
How we manage your waste
and resource recovery needs
Retail-ready service design
Waste solutions tailored to store formats, trading hours, and back-of-house constraints.
Flexible collection schedules
Services planned around deliveries, peak trade, and promotional periods.
High-volume waste handling
Systems designed to manage cardboard, packaging, and recyclables efficiently such as compactors.
Reporting and insights
Options for collection data to help retailers track waste volumes, recycling volumes and servicing.
Scalable network support
Consistent service standards upheld across individual stores, shopping centres, and national portfolios.
Waste and recycling services for retail environments
General waste collection
Reliable removal of everyday retail waste from stores and back-of-house areas.
Food and organic waste
Solutions for food waste for food retailers, supermarkets, and in-store cafés.
Cardboard and packaging recycling
Dedicated solutions for high volumes of cardboard generated through stock deliveries.
Confidential document destruction
Secure disposal of sensitive business and customer information.
Custom waste stream solutions
Solutions aligned to centre operations and shared waste areas.
Grease traps
Grease trap cleaning, pumping and disposal services for retailers with commercial kitchens.
Keeping your stores safe and operational
Retail waste services must meet environmental and workplace safety requirements while supporting clean, hazard-free environments for customers and staff. Cleanaway’s
services are designed to help retailers manage the risks associated with waste storage, handling, and collection.
With the support of our services, back-of-house areas can be kept orderly through reliable collections that support uninterrupted store operations.
Improving sustainability outcomes for your retail business
Reducing waste to landfill
Improved recovery of cardboard, packaging, and organic materials where possible.
Supporting retail sustainability commitments
Waste solutions that look to work to achieve customer sustainability goals.
Improving recycling performance
We can offer systems and education programs that aim to reduce contamination and improve material recovery.
Collection visibility
Options for reporting to support understanding of waste collected.
Proven results for retailers
Commercial property owners and managers across Australia continue to partner with Cleanaway for the safe and efficient management of waste across buildings, precincts
and mixed-used assets.
Our tailored approach minimises operational interruption, improve recycling outcomes, and supports retailer performance.