Collecting and recycling cardboard waste to generate rebates and revenues for businesses
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
All our commercial activities support and sustain our charitable programmes; reducing reoffending, supporting homeless men and redistributing food. These create opportunities through:
Our work is doing more than just changing lives for individuals, families and communities - between 2015 and 2017 it has created huge savings for society by reducing costs to the taxpayer and creating social value worth millions of pounds.
We take care of the entire cardboard recycling process from collecting waste to exporting materials. We will advise you on how best to segregate your waste and keep cardboard clean.
All cardboard is compacted and baled at our General Waste site before being sent to a trusted partner company where it is processed and transformed into new products. Our closed-loop recycling process aims to reduce the amount of cardboard waste being incinerated or sent to sent to landfill.
The Duty of Care Regulations state that as a waste holder you must take all reasonable steps to:
In addition, any waste holder must ensure that waste is transferred to a business or individual that is:
Find the answers to all your questions about Cardboard Recycling below.
Yes - we ensure all cardboard waste is recycled and not sent to landfill or incineration. This is ensured through simple cardboard disposal techniques; segregating waste streams and keeping cardboard clean.
All cardboard is processed at our General Waste site. It is compacted, baled and mixed with hot water to remove contaminants. This cleaned material is then sent to reprocessors, to be pressed into new products. Our closed-loop recycling process ensures no cardboard waste is sent to landfill or incineration.
Your cardboard recycling can begin at your own facilities - we will advise you on how best to segregate waste and keep cardboard clean. We can also recommend, install and even train your team to operate bespoke equipment, like compactors and balers, to improve efficiencies for cardboard disposal.
Yes - you can receive rebates from commodities like cardboard. We work with large quantities of cardboard, allowing us to negotiate the very best price for rebates from UK and international markets and reprocessors - we then pass these on to our clients.
Steve Giblin Group HSSEQ Director Speedy
Critical to the appointment of Recycling Lives was its enlightened approach to social value. Read moreRead less
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
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
Our bespoke customer portal can be tailored to your business needs. After we’ve assessed your waste streams, we’ll ensure the portal is responsive to making collection requests, viewing the recycling process and tracking recycle rates.
We’ve operated in the recycling sector for 40 years - learn more about our history and impact to date
We’d love to hear from you - contact us about recycling waste, working together or joining our team
We service all sectors - see how we can manage your waste for environmental and social benefit
