Cardboard Recycling

About our
Cardboard Recycling Service

Recycling Lives offers bespoke services for cardboard waste recycling. We ensure cardboard is fully recycled and never sent to landfill or used as waste to energy - collecting and recycling thousands of tonnes of cardboard every year for major retailers.

• Guaranteeing closed-loop recycling to return recycled cardboard to market
• Securing rebates to generate revenues from commodities
• Supplying compactors and balers for client's cardboard disposal on-site

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

Increasing efficiencies

Choose where to recycle your cardboard - whether on-site or at our facilities. We can recommend, install and even train your team to operate bespoke equipment at your sites, to improve efficiencies for cardboard disposal - we have implemented compactors and balers for clients so cardboard recycling can begin on-site. We also manage cardboard collection nationwide, ahead of processing and recycling at our dedicated General Waste site.

We are trusted by major retailers to manage their cardboard recycling. Working with large quantities of waste cardboard allows us to negotiate the very best price for rebates, with access to UK and international markets and reprocessors - we then pass these rebates on to our clients.

Cardboard recycling that has a social value

All our services, from cardboard collection to cardboard recycling, contribute to the creation of significant social value - so your cardboard disposal becomes a charitable process.

As well as supporting our charitable programmes through our cardboard recycling, we are creating skilled jobs in waste management. The team at our General Waste site are highly skilled recycling operatives - many started with us after experiencing long-term unemployment, homelessness or having been recently released from prison. Working with Recycling Lives means your business supports and sustains our life-changing charitable programmes.

Our facilities

With a nationwide network of sites, skips and containers of all sizes, and a large fleet of skip wagons, ROROs and artics, we can manage cardboard waste collection across the UK. We can arrange full- and part-load collections - where appropriate, combining these with collections from other clients to minimise emissions - ready to be processed at our dedicated General Waste site ahead of recycling and reprocessing. Or cardboard waste can be compacted and baled at your site.

Creating opportunities

All our commercial activities support and sustain our charitable programmes; reducing reoffending, supporting homeless men and redistributing food. These create opportunities through:

• 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.