Recycle and Reuse Books

Someone out there needs that book!

Can i recycle my old books?

No, unfortunately the glue used to bind the book together prevents it from being recyclable. However, there are many alternative options when needing to get rid of some of those old books.

Donate

How about taking them down to your local charity shop, most will accept them if they are in fairly good condition. Alternatively,take them to your local library, doctors surgery or school.

Exchange

There are internet sites such as Bookmooch that allow you to swap your unwanted books with others.

Sell

A good way to make some extra cash is to sell ypur unwanted books either on a jumble sale or online. Sites such as Amazon, and Green Metropolis provide this service.

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Recycling Lives offers good Corporate Social Responsibility.

Recycling Lives operates nationally to provide a wide range of recycling activities to Local Authorities, commercial organisations and the public. Recycling Lives provides housing, training and long term employment in the recycling sector, to people who would otherwise be homeless; including ex-armed forces personnel, probation and those from chaotic backgrounds.

Each Recycling Lives centre provides up to 48 quality en-suite rooms; training and office facilities; incubator units for entrepreneurs in social enterprise; industrial space for our recycling processes and retail space to sell good manufactured by Recycling Lives from recycled waste.

We do not ask for, or rely on 'gifts' from you, as we always pay fair prices for scrap metal recycling, plastic and other recyclables. By selling your waste to Recycling Lives your organisation helps us to be sustainable and you to show good corporate social responsibility.

Our social enterprise 'manages' good Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) on your behalf, by ensuring that our recycling activities are carried out by employees that would otherwise be marginalised or even forgotten by society.

What does Recycling Lives Recycle?

Aerosols |
Asbestos |
Batteries |
Beverage Cartons |
Bicycles |
Books |
Bricks and Building Rubble |
Car Batteries |
Cardboard Boxes |
Carpets |
Carrier Bags |
Christmas Trees |
Clinical Waste |
Clothes |
Compact Discs (CDs) Digital Versatile Discs (DVDs) |
Computers |
Cooking Oil |
Drinks Cans |
Egg Shells |
Engine Oil |
Envelopes |
Fire Extinguishers |
Food Waste |
Furniture |
Garden waste |
Gas Bottles |
Glass |
Greetings cards |
Hearing Aids |
Keys |
Light Bulbs |
Magazines |
Milk bottles |
Mobile Phones |
Musical Instruments |
Nappies |
Paint |
Paper |
Plasterboard |
Plastic bottles |
Printer Cartridges |
Shoes |
Shredded Paper |
Spectacles |
Stamps |
Televisions and monitors |
Textiles |
Tin foil |
Toys |
Tyres |
Video cassettes |
White goods |
Wood |
Wrapping Paper |
Yellow Pages |
Yogurt Pots |

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