Our Compliance Services
About our
compliance services
Recycling Lives operates producer compliance schemes offering clients total compliance to meet producer responsibility obligations.
- Assuming legal responsibility for complying with regulations for producers and distributors
- Sourcing and financing collections nationwide to generate evidence
- Opportunities to process and recycle waste streams within prisons to support offender rehabilitation
- Unique partnership between Compliance scheme and an Approved Authorised Treatment Facility
- Transparent approach to funding and securing collection and treatment partners
- Dedicated account managers; experts in WEEE regulations for business
With extensive knowledge, a unique insight into the compliance sector and a deep understanding of the producer responsibility and environmental compliance regulations, our compliance consultants are well placed to advise you on your business’ responsibilities and requirements. We will assume legal responsibility for your organisation to comply with WEEE legislation both in the UK and across Europe.
Do I need to be concerned with compliance?
Compliance regulations have been brought into effect for a variety of waste types, in a bid to reduce the amount of waste sent to landfill and to encourage reducing or reusing, as much as recycling, waste. Recycling Lives Compliance Services offer all types of compliance solutions to any UK businesses obligated to meet these regulations.
We will guide you on whether your business needs to meet producer responsibility obligations or to implement a distributor take back scheme, or both.
Our team of experts will advise you on the particular regulations pertinent to your business, offer advice on handling waste streams and sourcing evidence, and also look at solutions to managing waste streams within Recycling Lives HMP Academies.
who we work with
Compliance solutions that have a social impact
Each of our producer compliance schemes contribute to the creation of significant social value through Recycling Lives charitable programmes - so your waste compliance becomes a social, as well as commercial and legal, activity.
We can create opportunities for your WEEE to be processed within one of Recycling Lives’ HMP Academies, creating and sustaining meaningful work for offenders in prisons. Men and women process end-of-life products, contributing to their own personal development, and your adherence to WEEE legislation; allowing you to report social, as well as environmental and legislative, impact from waste streams.
We manage WEEE recycling facilities across the UK, both at our own Recycling Park and in eight of our 10 HMP Academies. Here, waste equipment and items are processed, ahead of recycling through Recycling Lives’ industry-leading fragmentiser, which shreds and separates composite materials ready for reuse. In this way, Recycling Lives Compliance Services are unique in having an established partnership with Recycling Lives’ Approved Authorised Treatment Facility (AATF), its 15-acre Recycling Park.
Recycling Lives’ HMP Academies programme is an offender rehabilitation scheme, creating opportunities for men and women in prison. Programme participants undertake recycling work while improving their skills, earning an enhanced wage, achieving qualifications and having support to secure employment and accommodation ahead of release.
Creating Opportunities
Rehabilitation and reoffending are commonly identified as key issues facing our overcrowded prison systems. By equipping prisoners with skills, self-confidence, work experience and qualifications, we can help people to escape a recurrent cycle of repeat offending and become active members of society.
The Prison Reform Trust states ‘Prisoners who attend vocational training in prison are more likely to secure employment shortly after release – a view endorsed by Ofsted’.
In addition, a similar scheme to the Recycling Lives programme operated by the National Grid found reoffending rates for participants were just 6%, compared to the 45% average.
Accreditations
why work
with us
Josh Steiner Social Value & Sustainability Manager Wates Group
Recycling Lives has reaped the rewards of strong commercial and social credentials to secure large-scale contracts. Read moreRead less
Steve Giblin Group HSSEQ Director Speedy
Critical to the appointment of Recycling Lives was its enlightened approach to social value. Read moreRead less
Jeremy Hartley Managing Director Eric Wright Group
The Eric Wright Group has always recognised the importance of supporting the local community and using our business activities to improve people’s lives. Read moreRead less
Martin Chown Supply Chain Director Sellafield Limited
We are committed to ensuring our local communities derive maximum economic benefit from the money we spend at Sellafield, by insisting companies that win work with us to invest to support local growth. Read moreRead less
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About Our
Compliance Services
Influencing and implementing compliance services since the first compliance directive.
Our Locations
across the UK
We work with a nationwide network of Approved Authorised Treatment Facilities (AATFs), allowing us to efficiently source and finance collections for the proper removal and recycling of waste to meet environmental compliance.
We also work with local authorities across the UK to manage waste compliance and ensure all environmental compliance is met.
Recycling Lives Compliance Services is unique within the industry by being partnered with an AATF - Recycling Lives Recycling Park.
- Aberdeenshire
- Barnsley
- Bedford
- Blackburn With Darwen Council
- Blackpool
- Cambridgeshire
- Central Bedfordshire
- Cheshire East
- Cheshire West & Chester City
- Derbyshire & Derby City
- Devon
- Doncaster
- Durham
- Hertfordshire
- Milton Keynes
- Northamptonshire
- Rotherham
- Solihull
- Warrington
- Wolverhampton
- South Ayrshire
- Plymouth
Key dates
Ensure you don’t miss the key dates in the compliance calendar:
WEEE – Deadline for 2018 Q2 Data Submission
Submit your second quarter WEEE data through the Recycling Lives website by this date.
Batteries - 2019 Membership Fee Increase
In August, the Recycling Lives’ membership fee and the Environment Agency registration fee for batteries compliance will be raised for all of Recycling Lives’ members.
Batteries - 2019 Details Verification File Released
The Details Verification File is released at the same time as the 2019 membership fee for batteries compliance. It is used to confirm that the current member details on file are correct.
Packaging - 2018 Q2 Data Release
The Environment Agency will release the second quarters recycling data on this date. This is the official publication date, but sometimes the data is made available before it.
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