Circle - Community Groups helped to help the environment

Community groups can be environmentally friendly without it costing the earth thanks to a special offer from a local recycling organisation.

Circle - a joint venture between leading social housing providers, The Riverside Group, PLUS Housing Group and North West construction company the Seddon Group - is selecting community groups for preferential rates, to help them stay clean and green. Liverpool-based Circle was launched in 2006 to provide a commercially viable way of recycling construction waste - 90% of which would ordinarily be taken to landfill.

This latest initiative aims to help not-for-profit community groups help Circle hit the Government’s recycling target to significantly reduce landfill usage, as required by the European Landfill Directive. And, with the Circle skips dotted throughout the local communities across Liverpool, the Circle message to go green should be hard to miss!

Commenting on this latest offer, Circle site manager Steve Pagett said:

“Up to 90% of all construction waste can be recycled, yet currently 80% nationwide is still disposed of via landfill sites but Circle’s main aim is to combat this. But we can’t do it on our own, so our board made the decision to use 1% of our revenue to support selected local community groups.

“The first organisation to benefit is Kensington Community Learning Centre but we hope to help more community groups in the future.”

Construction waste delivered to Circle’s Liverpool recycling site at Blackstone Street is hand sorted into waste that can be recycled or re-sold and residual waste that can only be disposed of via landfill. Hand sorting enables up to 90% of waste to be recycled – up to 40% more than mechanical sorting.

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For further information, please call Janine Goodison on: T 0151 295 6227 or M 07812 6352195