National skip hire services designed to benefit your business
Recycling Lives offers national skip services that provide skips of all sizes, from four to 40 yards, to businesses across the UK as part of our total waste management solutions.
We work with you, performing site audits to ensure you get the maximum cost benefit from your skips. Streamlining waste disposal systems to ensure minimum on-site disruption, while providing opportunities to generate rebates from commodity lead waste streams.
Recycling Lives brokers nationwide skip hire through Skip Hire Network, an online platform accessing hundreds of our approved skip providers across the UK.
Skip Hire Network acts as a single point of contact where commercial clients can use a simple booking form to hire skips in locations across the UK. By working with other skip providers, we are able to offer the best value for money, hiring skips out at a low cost while supporting Recycling Lives’ charitable activities.
All our skip hire services, contribute to the creation of significant social value - so your waste disposal becomes a charitable process.
As well as supporting our charitable programmes through our waste disposal, we are creating skilled jobs in waste management. All our departments, from office-based to operational teams, create training and employment opportunities for people from marginalised backgrounds, giving us a diverse team with a wealth of life and work experience.
Working with Recycling Lives means your business supports and sustains our life-changing charitable programmes.
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.
Our work is doing more than just changing lives for individuals, families and communities - between 2015 and 2018 it has created huge savings for society by reducing costs to the taxpayer and creating social value worth millions of pounds.
Regardless of whether you are looking for commercial skip services, if you are placing a skip on a public road then you will need to obtain a skip permit from your local council. This is something that we can obtain on your behalf if necessary.
The council will require your address and the start date/delivery date when your skip arrives to issue you with a permit.
The cost of a skip permit varies depending on your location and how long you need it, however, if you receive a skip permit through Skip Hire Network, it will cost £50 for a four-week period.
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 like Recycling Lives that is:
Find the answers to all your questions about Skip Hire below.
Your waste will be processed at an authorised treatment facility according to all UK and EU legislation.
If you require a detailed summary of what happens to your waste we can provide this information for a fee.
Skip Hire Network will provide your skip for 2 weeks as a standard. Each additional week is charged at a further £10 + VAT.
Breach of the Duty of Care is an offence, with a penalty of up to £5,000 on summary conviction or an unlimited fine on conviction on indictment.
Our skip hire services will accept any solid, non-hazardous waste, such as building debris, household or garden waste. Unless you have made prior arrangements with a representative we are unable to take; Asbestos, Chemicals (e.g. brake fluid), Lead-acid batteries, Box style TV's and monitors, Fridges and freezers, Fluorescent tubes, Clinical waste or Tyres.
All general household, commercial and garden wastes other than these are acceptable, providing the waste fits within the skip and does not over-fill it. Over-filled skips will not be taken under any circumstances.
Recycling Lives’ Skip Hire Network offers a variety of different skip sizes from four and six yard skips that are perfect for domestic use, to 30 and 40 yard skips, which are mostly used for large house clearances, large garden waste or light building waste.
We also offer open or closed versions of each of these skips. The open skips are most common, but covered skips can be arranged at extra cost if you wish to prevent other people from using it or to make sure all site regulations are adhered to.
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
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