MyWaste, Ireland’s official waste guide, has added a free training module to its Commercial Waste Toolkit, giving employees a 20-minute online course and digital certificate on what waste goes where. The module helps businesses of all sizes cut contamination and meet waste segregation requirements, and can be built into staff induction, onboarding or refresher training.

The toolkit was developed with business representative organisations and industry representatives, and includes posters, bin labels, guidance materials and staff training supports. Organisations already using it range from hotels and leisure centres to community facilities, retail outlets and corporate workplaces. The module reinforces consistent sorting habits at work, at home and beyond.

AIB, a user of the toolkit, is headquartered in Dublin and reported profit after tax of €939 million on total income of €2.28 billion for the first half of 2026. Both the toolkit and the module are free to use.

The structural driver is persistent mis-sorting in commercial bins, with the EPA’s 2022 waste characterisation finding food waste made up 30% of commercial general waste bins, recyclables a further 37%, and 70% of commercial food waste going into general bins rather than organic ones.

Sinéad Ní Mhainnín of the Regional Waste Management Planning Office said that when bins are clearly labelled and placed where waste arises, it becomes “much easier for staff to make the correct choice.”

Colin Morehead, consumer sustainability lead at AIB, said the bank is seeing “greater awareness of what waste goes where” and “more consistent segregation” across its workplaces.

Free posters can be displayed in kitchens, canteens, print rooms and at waste stations, and the guidance covers keeping recyclables clean, dry and loose, separating food waste and sending batteries, vapes, electrical items and glass through dedicated collection routes.

For the sector, the module confirms that workplace compliance training is moving into short, certified online formats that employers can build into induction and refresher cycles.

Source: irishtechnews.ie / aib.ie / epa.ie