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.

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.

WEEE Recycling that
has a Social Value

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

We manage WEEE waste streams on site and in our HMP Academies, creating employment for our on-site operatives—many of whom started with us after experiencing long-term unemployment, homelessness or having been recently released from prison—and providing work experience opportunities for offenders in our Academies.

Working with Recycling Lives means your business supports and sustains our life-changing charitable programmes.

Our Facilities

WEEE ready for recycling is processed either at our recycling sites or in our HMP Academies; creating meaningful and skilled jobs for offenders who earn money while gaining work experience.

Eight of our nine HMP Academies are recycling academies, where men and women process WEEE to extract aluminium, copper, steel, glass, plastics, and circuit boards for recycling.

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.