Q: Can you recycle computer cables?
Absolutely. Recycling Lives processes old electrical cables of all types.
Offering nationwide closed-loop recycling solutions for scrap cable recycling
Recycling Lives offers bespoke services for cable recycling. We granulate copper wire scrap at our industry-leading 15-acre Recycling Park and export straight from site reducing CO2 emissions by returning recycled copper and plastic to market.
We buy copper wire scrap nationwide, managing a UK-wide skip brokering service to collect and recycle old cables, as well as processing cables from End-of-Life Vehicles (ELVs).
Recycling Lives uses advanced recycling processes to extract the maximum amount of high quality copper from scrap cable, allowing us to offer the best prices for your scrap.
All the metal we extract from your scrap wire is placed back on the market, reducing landfill waste while decreasing market dependency on virgin metals.
All our services, from cable waste collection to cable recycling, contribute to the creation of significant social value - so cable disposal becomes a charitable process.
As well as supporting our charitable programmes through wire recycling, 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.
Recycling Lives operates Europe’s only online fragmentiser, which shreds and separates ferrous from non-ferrous metals and plastics while recording the whole process in high definition. Our copper cable granulator then extracts the copper and other metals from the cables ready for recycling, while plastics are separated and sold for reuse.
All our commercial activities support and sustain our charitable programmes; reducing reoffending, supporting homeless men and redistributing food. These create opportunities through:
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.
In addition, any waste holder must ensure that waste is transferred to a business or individual like Recycling Lives that is:
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 Cable Granulation below.
Absolutely. Recycling Lives processes old electrical cables of all types.
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.
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We’ve operated in the recycling sector for 40 years - learn more about our history and impact to date
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