Electronic Waste Recycling & WEEE Waste Management

About our WEEE
WEEE Recycling Service

Recycling Lives offers bespoke services for Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE) recycling. We recycle WEEE at our industry-leading 15-acre Recycling Park and export straight from site reducing CO2 emissions each year by returning recycled metal and plastic to market as raw materials.

Processing all WEEE at our Approved Authorised Treatment Facilities, which are fully licenced by the Environment Agency
Guaranteeing secure, audited destruction facilities
Offering an entirely confidential repair and reuse services for reusable WEEE

We provide you with a service that suits your needs, from drop-off centres for the disposal of small electrical items to total WEEE management solutions for large businesses.

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Advanced WEEE recycling processes

Our Recycling Park undertakes Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE) recycling processes designed to maximise the retrievable value from WEEE:

Europe’s only on-line fragmentiser - recording the entire process in HD to ensure total compliance
Dedicated Flat Panel Display (FPD) and Cathode Ray Tube (CRT) recycling facility
Secure recovery and resale of reusable electrical equipment

We process all types of WEEE including large and small household appliances; IT and telecommunications equipment; electrical and electronic tools; consumer equipment like radios and TVs; toys and sports equipment; and lighting equipment.

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Benefits designed to help your business

Modern weighbridge systems ensuring total transparency
Visible weights on all scales and weighbridges
Camera footage of weighbridges and processing available
Dedicated account managers; experts in WEEE recycling
Sales support team to handle day-to-day account management
Monthly reporting on WEEE collection and materials recycled
Compliance Services to ensure you meet all electronic disposal legislation and regulations
Evidence can be issued on B2C equipment as required

WEEE Recycling Process
and Regulations

The Process of Recycling WEEE

We take care of the entire WEEE recycling process from collecting WEEE to exporting recycled metals and plastic, providing total waste management solutions for large businesses and convenient sites for tradesmen and members of the public.

We recycle the majority of WEEE we receive at our industry-leading Recycling Park and HMP Academies. WEEE may be assessed and tested for reuse then sold, or manually dismantled before it is processed through our fragmentiser.

The Regulations around WEEE Recycling

The Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE) Regulations (2013) came into law in 2014, superseding the 2006 WEEE regulations.

The aim of this WEEE legislation is to reduce the tonnage of waste going to landfill by setting targets for the collection, recovery and recycling of WEEE. Producers of EEE are made accountable to meet these targets, by taking responsibility for their products when they reach the end of their working life. All businesses who place EEE on the UK market for the first time, either by importing, manufacturing, rebranding or distance selling are considered producers under the WEEE directive.

The WEEE regulations for business dictate that producers must:

Register with a WEEE Producer Compliance Scheme (PCS), like Recycling Lives Compliance Services, or the Environment Agency directly
Minimise the waste arising from their EEE and promote reuse
Declare the tonnage of EEE they put onto the UK market
Facilitate the collection and appropriate disposal of end-of-life waste
Ensure that all EEE products are correctly labelled

WEEE Recycling
FAQs

Find the answers to all your questions about WEEE Recycling below.

Q: Where can I dispose
of electronics?

We offer electronic waste disposal at five of our Recycling Lives sites:

Recycling Lives Recycling Park
Recycling Lives Head Office
Recycling Lives Workington
Recycling Lives Braconash
Recycling Lives Bury

Q: What about WEEE
compliance?

Recycling Lives operates its own Producer Compliance Scheme for all businesses wishing to recycle WEEE at our facilities. For more information about this please visit our WEEE Compliance page.

Learn more about
Recycling Lives

We’ve operated in the recycling sector for 40 years - learn more about our history and impact to date

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Get in touch with
Recycling Lives

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What Sectors
we operate in

We service all sectors - see how we can manage your waste for environmental and social benefit

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why work
with us

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. Working with Recycling Lives gives us an opportunity to continue to make a real difference and achieve more through working together. 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. The high value and quality nature of the service, alongside its demonstrable social benefits has prompted the organisation’s ongoing success, allowing it to expand its range of services and open in new locations to achieve nationwide coverage 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. Recycling Lives has these values at its core and I’m excited by their plans. The contract win also allowed for the creation of a number of jobs in Cumbria as we work to open a new site in the county, creating jobs for yard operatives, drivers and site managers. Read moreRead less