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Increase recycle rates and reduce costs with tailored solutions for your waste

Our recycling services

Recycling Lives Services can arrange recycling of most commodities including paper, plastic, cardboard, metals, wood and more. Our waste management solutions ensure all materials that can be recycled, are recycled.

  • Managing waste contracts across the country with nationwide coverage and multiple recycling sites
  • Recycling and processing all material types
  • Guaranteeing the best price

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

For complete transparency we have visible weights on all our weighbridges and scales and record all our processes in high-definition, from weighing in to processing, so we can provide you with footage of your recycling to ensure total compliance.

Benefits designed to help your business

Industry-leading infrastructure and machinery to process all recyclable commercial waste
Tailored solutions to improve operational efficiencies for waste management​
Access to UK and international markets and reprocessors​
Bespoke customer portal to follow process from collection to recycling​
Secure destruction facilities with ability to view footage of processing​
Dedicated account managers (account customers)​
Sales support team to handle day-to-day account management (account customers)
Same day payments

Cardboard Recycling

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.

Cardboard Recycling

Increasing Efficiencies

Recycling Lives Services 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.

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.

Plastic Recycling

Recycling Lives Services plastic recycling services ensure all materials that can be recycled, are recycled. We work with clients to understand the value of techniques to improve plastic waste recycling, from implementing separation techniques to understanding legislation.

  • Processing all types of recyclable plastic, from common to complex polymers
  • Improving operational efficiencies to increase recycle rates for plastic waste
  • Guaranteeing closed-loop recycling to return recycled plastics to market

Our tailored services for plastic recycling and disposal include assessing your waste streams, installing equipment for improved operational efficiencies and achieving high recycle rates to return recycled plastic to market.

Plastic Recycling

What plastics can be recycled?

We recycle all common polymers, including PVC, PET, HDPE, LDPE, PP and PS. We are also able to recycle complex plastics, such as PA, PC, ABS, PC-ABS, POM and more. Following processing through our fragmentiser, to separate composite materials, all types of recyclable plastics are melted down and transformed into plastic pellets by a trusted partner company. These pellets can then be used to create new plastic products.

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 the plastic recycling process 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 recycled at our Recycling Park ahead of reprocessing.

PPE Recycling

Recycling Lives services unique textile recycling services specialise in the secure destruction and recycling of corporate clothing and all associated PPE e.g. safety helmets, gloves, eye protection, high-visibility clothing, safety footwear and safety harnesses.

  • Recycling fabric waste through a secure, audited process, we work to have your old textiles reworked into a brand-new fibre. Reducing textile waste sent to landfill.
  • Guaranteeing a secure, audited textile recycling process for corporate apparel
  • Creating a new Waste Processed Fibre (WPF) with a wide range of applications including mattress fillings, felts, sound and heat insulation

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Why work with us
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British Gas

“Our relationship with Recycling Lives spans more than 6 years starting with our first load in 2016.

We send scrap and waste material including copper, brass, ferrous metal and more they also handle our hazardous waste such as oil and aerosols. We honestly like everything about Recycling Lives, their people are dedicated to what they do, work hard and are exceptionally friendly to deal with. Their attitude to work and charity is inspirational. Long may our partnership continue.”

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British Telecom

“BT and Recycling Lives have a long established relationship stretching back over 15 years.

We were looking to ensure we met and exceeded all of our environmental and waste targets and goals. To enable us to achieve this, we needed to work with the right partners that carry the same values and provide us with solutions we need in an ever change environment. Recycling Lives have continuously demonstrated their ability to deliver, always willing to go that extra mile when needed, and have built a trust within BT that our waste is in safe hands. We will continue to work with Recycling Lives in the future.”

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