These turbulent times call for corporates to make a difference when it comes to improving both the natural and social environment. UK recycling and waste management firm Recycling Lives is at the front of the queue, reports David Craik.
RECYCLING and waste management firm Recycling Lives is living proof of the old phrase ‘where there’s muck there’s brass’. But it is taking a very modern approach to how it uses that cash.
The Preston based group is not only the largest car processing business in the UK, and operator of the first electric skip trucks in the country. It also works alongside its sister organisation, the charity also called Recycling Lives, set up to meet pressing social needs such as rehabilitation for those people leaving the justice system, unemployment and access to meals.
“The company was founded in 1977 by Terry Jackson at the Leyland site which is now our training academy. In 2008 the company was restructured to put social value firmly at its core,” explained Andrew Hodgson, executive chairman since 2020. “We wanted to give homeless people and ex-offenders an opportunity to rebuild, or recycle their lives, by employing them in the business.”
