Waste Management built for Ballymena Businesses.
The capacity to service every Ballymena business, every week
From a single bin on Bridge Street to daily multi-stream collections across Larne Road Industrial Estate – our fleet and route network is built around reliability at scale. Here’s what’s behind your collection service.
What we collect
We handle the full range of commercial waste streams, with collections scheduled around your business hours – not ours.
General Commercial Waste
Regular bin collections for offices, retail, hospitality, and manufacturing premises across all Ballymena postcodes.
Glass Waste
Dedicated glass collection for bars, restaurants, and retail across all Ballymena areas.
Dry Mixed Recycling
Single-stream recycling collection for paper, cardboard, plastic, and metals. Sorted at our Mallusk facility – nothing sent to landfill.
Cardboard and Paper
High-volume cardboard or paper collections are available for all Ballymena areas.
Food Waste Collection
Compliant food waste collections for Ballymena’s hospitality sector – restaurants, hotels, cafes, and catering businesses in areas including Bridge Street, Broughshane Street, the Tower Centre, and the Cushendall Road corridor.
Skip Hire Ballymena
Mini, midi, and builder’s skips for Antrim construction projects, office clearances, and commercial refurbishments. Rapid delivery across Greater Ballymena.
Ballymena Businesses and EPR compliance
Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) regulations coming into force in 2025–26 place new obligations on many Belfast businesses – particularly manufacturers, retailers, and hospitality operators – to manage and report on the end-of-life journey of their packaging waste.
RiverRidge provides full Duty of Care documentation on every collection, and our Carbon Reporting Portal generates the Scope 3 emissions data your sustainability team needs for EPR and net-zero reporting.
If your business is navigating EPR compliance for the first time, contact our team for a free waste audit. We’ll map your current waste streams against the new requirements and identify any gaps.
Who we work with
Retail
Shops, supermarkets & convenience stores
Hospitality
Restaurants, cafes, bars, and hotels
Healthcare
Dental, medical & veterinary practices
Education
Schools, colleges, and universities
Offices
Professional services & corporate premises
Industry
Factories, manufacturing plants & processing facilities
EXCLUSIVE TO RIVERRIDGE
Real-time Scope 3 carbon reporting - included with every Ballymena collection
Our Carbon Reporting Portal gives your sustainability team digital, real-time reports on the emissions generated by your waste collections. No manual data gathering. No spreadsheets. Just accurate Scope 3 data, automatically, with every collection.
- Scope 3 emissions data generated automatically per collection
- Digital reports ready for your ESG reporting cycle
- Waste stream breakdown by volume and carbon intensity
- Benchmarking against NI industry averages
- GRI-aligned reporting standards
- No additional cost – included as standard
What makes us different from national operators
We're not a broker reselling collections on your behalf. We own the vehicles, the facilities, and the relationship - from collection to processing to recovery.
We own everything end-to-end
Our facilities process what we collect. There are no subcontractors, no third-party hauliers, and no gaps in the chain where your Duty of Care documentation could fail.
GRI-aligned ESG credentials
We report our own environmental performance in line with GRI Sustainability Reporting Standards – which means you can cite us as a supplier with verified ESG credentials in your own reporting.
300,000+ tonnes processed annually
Across our advanced material recovery facilities (MRFs) and Northern Ireland’s only waste-to-energy facility in Belfast. The scale to handle any volume your business generates.
NI knowledge, not call-centre service
We’ve operated in Northern Ireland since 2011. Our account managers know Belfast’s commercial areas, its licensing requirements, and its NIEA compliance landscape – because they work here.
Zero landfill ambition
Our waste-to-energy facility in Belfast recovers energy from residual waste that cannot be recycled, diverting it from landfill entirely. Your waste doesn’t end up in the ground.
Low-emission fleet
RiverRidge operates Northern Ireland’s first electric skip lift vehicle and runs a fleet of hydrotreated vegetable oil (HVO) vehicles, reducing transport emissions by 90% versus diesel.
We cover all of Northern Ireland
We offer an in-house service to every one of our 4,500+ customers. Collecting a variety of waste types and utilising a range of container types, we are able to create a service that works for you.
Belfast is our largest service area, but we operate across 95% of Northern Ireland’s postcodes with operational sites in Coleraine, Portadown, Mallusk, and Derry/Londonderry.
From collection to carbon reduction
1
Collection
Utilising the most modern commercial fleet on the market, our collection solutions result in the lowest carbon footprint per tonne.
2
Treatment
At this stage we extract recycling products trapped in your waste streams and release the energy hidden in non-recyclable materials.
3
Reporting
We provide full digital reports of the benefits gained to ensure your scope 3 obligations are fulfilled and your compliance needs are met.