We’re a Queen’s Award-winning commercial recycler with over forty years experience in the recycling and waste management industry. Our commercial services help to support our social welfare charity, which helps vulnerable people to work their way back to independent living.As an industry leader, we pride ourselves on the quality service, efficiency and innovation at the heart of all our departments. We aim to deliver ground-breaking solutions and big savings to our customers while maintaining our community focus and family business feel.Recycling Lives specialise in the recycling of scrap cars, scrap metal, WEEE, plastic, household and commercial waste, bulky waste and plastic materials.Now a thriving commercial recycler and social welfare charity, Recycling Lives began as a family-run scrap metal yard more than 40 years ago.And, while we’ve expanded our business into other areas of expertise, such as WEEE, CRT and FPD processing, scrap metal and car recycling is still at the core of what we do.With years of experience behind us – and an ongoing commitment to providing our customers with the best service and scrap metal prices – we’re now an industry leader in the scrap metal recycling sector.When it comes to scrap metal recycling, you need to be sure you’re getting the best deal. Recycling Lives scrap metal recycling yards are the best in the business: we offer competitive scrap metal prices, top quality service and all the necessary paperwork, so that you can get your scrap metal recycled quickly, easily and for a great price.Recycling Lives have developed a specialist WEEE processing line in order to provide a solution to the vast quantities of waste electrical and electronic equipment that is generated each year.

The WEEE is separated by our trained employees using a sophisticated WEEE shredding system, separating ferrous metals, non-ferrous metals and non-metals. We aim to ensure that as much waste material as possible is diverted from landfill.This processing system offers an effective solution for the recycling of all domestic and commercial electrical and electronic equipment in accordance with EU legislation. We remove recyclable materials from the waste stream and the processed materials eventually re-enter the manufacturing process. Recycled materials used in manufacturing offer a reduced carbon footprint.We can accept one-off items or large numbers of items from both homeowners and commercial businesses. All our transactions are recorded manually and electronically on our centralised recorded weighbridge system. The weighbridge is CCTV-monitored and all film is backed up and retained for your peace of mind.We pride ourselves on offering top quality service and great scrap metal rates, so if you have scrap metal to dispose of, contact us today and see what we can do for you.All Recycling Lives facilities have the capacity to accept Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE) from both the general public and commercial businesses, to be passed on to our specialist WEEE division for processing.In addition to working with WEEE compliance schemes throughout the country, we also operate our own producer compliance schemes, Advantage Waste Brokers and WE3; this enables us to handle any customer requirements, from one-off collections to high-capacity WEEE contracts.Recycling Lives are committed to finding new and innovative solutions to waste problems, and are always looking for new ways of reducing waste in landfill. To this end, we are currently developing manufacturing processes for a number of products made using recycled materials.