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Pre Opening Tour

Recycling Lives held its first pre opening tour on Friday ahead of an official opening early in the New Year. With little more than a month of work left until the centre is complete key partners and interested parties were invited to have a look around the centre ahead of completion.

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Taking Shape

As we move into September and the final quarter of the year the Recycling Lives development in the heart of Preston is moving into the latter stages of construction.

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Internal Underway

The internal development in our brand new facility is now well underway. The internal works required to turn the external skeleton into a full facility is making excellent progress.

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Plans for a brighter future are shunned

The Recycling Lives development on Kent Street received surprising news from Preston City Council’s planning department when they decided to reject the use of natural aluminium as the final finish for the roof of the building.

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Red Lorry - Yellow Lorry - Green Lorry

As you may or may not already know Recycling Lives has recently acquired Recycling Co UK to position itself as a charity with the firm backing and financial support of a commercial organisation.

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Ahead of Schedule

Preston’s flagship Recycling Lives centre is making astounding progress and is approximately 4 – 6 weeks ahead of schedule.

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Changing City Scene

The St Georges ward in the heart of Preston has for many years been in need of redevelopment and businesses within the ward have suffered as a result. The new building being constructed in the centre of the ward addresses the causes of homelessness, while effectively tackling issues of worklessness and providing the required stimulus to generate new business through effectual promotion of social entrepreneurialism. Read More »

Fast Progress

Progress with the construction of the first Recycling Lives facility in Preston is now well under way. The site has seen its second steel delivery today, from TW Fabrications as the building begins to rapidly take shape.

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Steel Arrives!

Approximately 25 tonnes of steel has arrived on the site of Recycling Lives Preston Ltd.

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Leaping ahead!

Sod-cutting ceremony marks the real start of building work!
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Demolition work gets under way

Demolition work gets under way in preparation for Recycling Lives: 10 January 2008

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Award for the Marquis

Recycling Lives has awarded a major demolition contract to Pete Marquis Ltd of Preston. Read More »

Planning for the future

Having successfully submitted and gained planning approval on behalf of Recycling Lives, local building designers MCK Partnership of Preston have been working away to turn the charity’s dreams in to reality. Read More »



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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?

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