Waste Management Consultancy

About our
Waste Management Consultancy

Recycling Lives offers a professional waste management consultancy designed to improve the operational efficiency of your premises, reduce waste disposal costs, and increase recycling rates.

Offering a bespoke customer portal to follow processes from collection to recycling
Tailoring waste management solutions to improve operational efficiencies for waste management
Providing dedicated account managers for account customers

We provide you with waste management consulting services that suit your needs by visiting your sites and assessing the waste you produce across the whole business, from its creation through to disposal.

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Industry expertise

Our waste management consultancy services are delivered by WAMITAB accredited waste consultants who have a wealth of experience in the waste and recycling industry.

Working with you to find the best waste management strategies for your business, our waste consultants use their expertise to minimise on-site disruption caused by waste disposal; generate rebates from commodity led waste streams through efficient waste management; and ensure full compliance to all waste management regulations.

who we work with

Benefits designed to help your business

Dedicated account managers; experts in waste management consultancy
Bespoke waste management plans to assess, collect and recycle your waste
Site audits from our qualified waste management consultants, identifying opportunities to increase recycle rates and reduce costs and CO2 emissions
Compliance Services to ensure you meet all waste disposal legislation and regulations

A Waste Management Consultancy that has a Social Value

All our services, from auditing your sites to creating waste management plans, contribute to the creation of significant social value - so making your business’ waste disposal more efficient becomes a charitable process.

As well as supporting our charitable programmes using our waste management consultancy services, 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.

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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.

The Impact of our partnerships

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 the last three years

24 individuals supported into
independent living
+ 136 ex-offenders rehabilitated
and supported into work
+ 2,174,140 meals delivered across
Lancashire & Cumbria
= £17.3m reported Social Value -
created through savings to society

Waste Management Consultancy
REGULATIONS

The Regulations Around Waste Management

The laws that apply to waste and its disposal are complex, varied and ever-changing. Fortunately, with advice from our waste management consultants we ensure that you meet all the regulations that apply to you.

The Duty of Care Regulations apply to all businesses handling waste. They state that as a waste holder you must take all reasonable steps to:

Prevent unauthorised or harmful deposit, treatment or disposal of waste
Ensure that all waste 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 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.

Waste Management FAQs

Find the answers to all your questions about waste management consultation below.

Q: What is waste management consultancy?

Waste disposal and recycling companies like Recycling Lives offer waste management consultancy services to help your business operate in the most efficient way possible. Waste consultants will perform a waste audit of your business, analyse the ways that your waste disposal processes can be improved and provide cost-effective solutions tailored to your needs.

Q: What is WAMITAB?

A WAMITAB qualification demonstrates the level of knowledge and skill needed to ensure that a waste site complies with Environmental Permitting Regulations (2007). There are several levels of WAMITAB courses, the highest of which is a Level 4, often referred to as the Certificate of Technical Competence (CoTC). Our waste management consultants are all WAMITAB accredited.

why work
with us

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. The high value and quality nature of the service, alongside its demonstrable social benefits has prompted the organisation’s ongoing success, allowing it to expand its range of services and open in new locations to achieve nationwide coverage Read moreRead less

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. Working with Recycling Lives gives us an opportunity to continue to make a real difference and achieve more through working together. 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. Recycling Lives has these values at its core and I’m excited by their plans. The contract win also allowed for the creation of a number of jobs in Cumbria as we work to open a new site in the county, creating jobs for yard operatives, drivers and site managers. Read moreRead less

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