{"id":1121,"date":"2018-02-06T17:07:38","date_gmt":"2018-02-06T17:07:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.scrapcarnetwork.org\/news\/?p=1121"},"modified":"2025-08-26T10:15:27","modified_gmt":"2025-08-26T09:15:27","slug":"recycling-lives-enjoys-record-breaking-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scrapcarnetwork.org\/news\/recycling-lives-enjoys-record-breaking-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Recycling Lives Enjoys Record-Breaking Year!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Our ethics are hugely important to us as a business here at Scrap Car Network, as you\u2019d expect from an organisation founded by Recycling Lives. You may already know a bit about Recycling Lives \u2013 our parent company has gained national recognition for its unique business model, which combines both commercial and charitable activities. Thanks to the tireless work of its staff, it\u2019s recently enjoyed its biggest year yet, paving the way for it to do more good than ever.<\/p>\n

Better Success For A Greater Social Impact<\/h2>\n

Recycling Lives publishes its annual accounts this week, and the results are pretty impressive. The recycling and waste management business is reporting a sharp increase in sales \u2013 nearly 50%, in fact \u2013 bringing the total value to over \u00a346 million. Recycling Lives has won a raft of major new contracts throughout the year, including with respected businesses like Sellafield Ltd and Speedy Hire. In addition to these, Recycling Lives has also acquired a car salvage firm, and opened a remarkable number of five new sites across the UK throughout 2016\/17, bringing its new total to nine<\/a>!<\/p>\n

This has a range of positive implications for not only the success of the business itself, but also the ever-expanding scope of its charitable activities. The Managing Director of the Recycling Lives Group, William Fletcher, put it best when he said: \u201cthis profitable growth is allowing us to significantly expand our social footprint and offer more opportunities as the charity\u2019s growth follows the business\u2019s growth. It\u2019s allowed us to create many more jobs \u2013 we\u2019ve grown our staff team by 23% in just the last year. Our impressive growth, coupled with the incredible social impact created by our charitable programmes, shows that Recycling Lives is here for good.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Recycling Lives\u2019 Charitable Activities<\/h2>\n

As we touched upon earlier, Recycling Lives combines its commercial activities with charitable pursuits. At Scrap Car Network, we\u2019re very proud to be one of those commercial activities, but what about the social aspects? Well, Recycling Lives\u2019 very own residential charity is probably the most well-known example of its charitable ventures, providing a safety net to formerly homeless people, and giving them accommodation, one-on-one support, and skills training to prepare them for eventual employment. Through this, Recycling Lives has a brilliant track record in helping people put their lives back together again.<\/p>\n

Alongside this, the business also runs an offender rehabilitation programme in nine prisons nationwide, which similarly prepares offenders with skills they\u2019ll need for re-entry into the working world upon their release. This type of social venture has a proven success rate in reducing the rate of re-offending, and all Recycling Lives\u2019 statistics back this up \u2013 in 2015\/16, 37 out of 38 participants in this programme didn\u2019t reoffend. Finally, Recycling Lives has partnered with Fareshare to open its Food Redistribution Centre, with the aim of tackling food poverty and cutting down on the amount of food waste. Since this centre first opened in 2015, it\u2019s distributed an amazing amount of 1 million meals \u2013 and counting!<\/p>\n

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At Scrap Car Network, our work supports and sustains the charitable activities of Recycling Lives \u2013 which means that when you scrap your car with us<\/a>, you\u2019ll be helping improve the life of another human being. And really, what better bonus could there be? You can get your instant online quote by entering in your car reg and postcode onto our homepage. Go on \u2013 couldn\u2019t hurt to check, could it?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Our ethics are hugely important to us as a business here at Scrap Car Network, as you\u2019d expect from an organisation founded by Recycling Lives. You may already know a bit about Recycling Lives \u2013 our parent company has gained national recognition for its unique business model, which combines both commercial and charitable activities. Thanks […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":113,"featured_media":1142,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[16],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\t\n\t\n\n\n\t\n\t\n\t\n