Q: Can you recycle computer cables?
A:
Absolutely. Recycling Lives processes old electrical cables of all types.
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.
who we work with
Benefits designed to help your business
- Modern weighbridge systems ensuring total transparency
- Visible weights on all scales and weighbridges
- Camera footage of weighbridges and processing available
- Dedicated account managers; experts in cable recycling
- Sales support team to handle day-to-day account management
- Monthly reporting on cable collection and wire recycling
- Compliance Services to ensure you meet all cable disposal legislation and regulations
CABLE RECYCLING
REGULATIONS
In addition, any waste holder must ensure that waste is transferred to a business or individual like Recycling Lives that is:
- Registered as a carrier, broker or dealer of waste
- A waste management operator with an environmental permit or registered exemption to accept such waste
The Regulations around Cable Recycling
The Duty of Care Regulations state that as a waste holder you must take all reasonable steps to:
- Prevent unauthorised or harmful deposit, treatment or disposal of scrap cable
- Ensure that all scrap wire is disposed of with a business or individuals that have the correct and relevant environmental permit issued but the Environmental Agency like Recycling Lives
- Prevent other parties from breaching permit conditions relevant to the type of waste they process
- Provide an accurate description of the waste when it is transferred to another business or individual
- Retain waste documentation about non-hazardous waste like copper wire scrap for two years
In addition, any waste holder must ensure that waste is transferred to a business or individual like Recycling Lives that is:
- Registered as a carrier, broker or dealer of waste
- A waste management operator with an environmental permit or registered exemption to accept such waste
WEEE Recycling
FAQs
Find the answers to all your questions about Cable Granulation below.
Q: What happens if I don’t fulfil my legal duty of care?
A:
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.
Learn more about
Recycling Lives
We’ve operated in the recycling sector for 40 years - learn more about our history and impact to date
Get in touch with
Recycling Lives
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What Sectors
we operate in
We service all sectors - see how we can manage your waste for environmental and social benefit
why work
with us
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
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
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
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