Cable Granulation Service

About our Cable Granulation Service

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.

• Guaranteeing the best value for scrap wire recycling
• Collecting and recycling cable waste from across the UK
• Processing all scrap cable at our Approved Authorised Treatment Facilities, which are fully licenced by the Environment Agency 

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). 
 

Advanced Wire Recycling 

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.

• Europe’s only on-line fragmentiser – recording the entire process in HD to ensure total compliance and receipt of payment for the full weight of your cable
• Copper cable granulator – reducing scrap wire to dust sized particles to extract and segregate copper, aluminium, brass, steel and other ferrous metals

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.
 

Cable Recycling that has a Social Value

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.

Our Facilities

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.

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.