Recycling

About our Recycling
Services

Recycling Lives is recognised as an industry-leading recycler – named Recycling Business of the Year. Our waste management solutions ensure all materials that can be recycled, are recycled.

• Managing waste contracts across the country with nationwide coverage and nine recycling sites
• Recycling and processing all types of metals and plastics
• Guaranteeing the best price

Our tailored recycling services include assessing your waste streams, installing equipment for improved operational efficiencies, increasing revenues from commodities and achieving high recycle rates.

For complete transparency we have visible weights on all our weighbridges and scales and record all our processes in high-definition, from weighing in to processing, so we can provide you with footage of your recycling to ensure total compliance.

We also manage recyclable waste collection nationwide, with skips and containers of all sizes and a large fleet of skip wagons, ROROs and artics.

Benefits designed to help your business

• Industry-leading infrastructure and machinery to process all recyclable waste
• Tailored solutions to improve operational efficiencies for waste management
• Access to UK and international markets and reprocessors
• Bespoke customer portal to follow process from collection to recycling
• Secure destruction facilities with ability to view footage of processing
• Dedicated account managers (account customers)
• Sales support team to handle day-to-day account management (account customers)
• Same day payments and pre-paid debit card facilities (non-account customers)

Recycling Services that have a social impact

All our services, from recyclable waste collection to recycling management, contribute to the creation of significant social value - so your waste disposal becomes a charitable process. Your contracts can support our programmes to create opportunities:

• HMP Academies - offenders in prison undertake meaningful work, in recycling and waste management processes, to gain transferable life and work skills ahead of release;
• Residential Support - individuals who would otherwise be homeless are supported to regain their independence and move into work and housing;
• Food Redistribution - small charities and community groups are supported to reduce their running costs and expand their service offering as we redistribute surplus food from supermarkets and suppliers to them

Social Value

Recycling Lives has created a total of £17.3m Social Value between 2015 and 2018 through our charitable activities - £4.1m in 2015/16 and £5.2m in 2016/17 and £8m in 2017/2018.

These figures save the taxpayer money by relieving pressure on public resources like the judicial system, medical and healthcare services and the benefits system. By investing in our recycling services your business supports continued savings to the public purse.