Make a Material Difference in the Heart of the North West region
EMERGE provides the full range of waste, recycling and confidential shredding collection services to businesses, organisations and schools. We advance sustainable resource management including advice, information and consultation to the wider community. A movement for positive change, EMERGE conserves natural resources and motivates more people to embrace ‘the real 3Rs’, Reduce, Reuse and Recycle.
EMERGE Recycling is a social enterprise rooted in sustainable resource management, social value, and quality service. As a licensed waste carrier, we cater to diverse customer needs, including business waste, confidential shredding, food waste, and waste electrical equipment. Our specialist treatment infrastructure allows us to manage waste efficiently, promoting the principles of the real 3Rs: Reduce, Re-use, Recycle.
Our story began in 1996 when we launched as a community business in East Manchester. Over the years, we have expanded into the EMERGE Family, which includes two entities: EMERGE Recycling and EMERGE 3Rs. Operating from our site on New Smithfield Market, EMERGE 3Rs serves as an environmental charity promoting resource conservation. It also runs FareShare Greater Manchester, helping to alleviate food waste and fight food poverty. It also runs the Give & Gain Volunteering and Employability Programme. The two entities work collaboratively, with EMERGE Recycling utilising some its profits to achieve their shared vision. So, in becoming our customer you will also be helping people in need, as well as tackling climate change!
Over the past 24 years we have supplied waste management services to a wide variety of customers, including businesses, schools and universities, charities and social enterprises, the NHS and local government. We are fully accredited with ISO 9001: 2015, BS EN 15713 (covering paper documents as well as IT equipment), SafeContractor, OTC operator licence and we hold a T11 Exemption. In addition to our general recycling services, we also operate reclaimed timber collections and a wood upcycling initiative, Touch Wood; in our shop we upcycle waste wood for sale to the public and train volunteers and work placements to create bespoke products.
EMERGE provides the full range of waste, recycling and confidential shredding collection services to businesses, organisations and schools. We advance sustainable resource management including advice, information and consultation to the wider community. A movement for positive change, EMERGE conserves natural resources and motivates more people to embrace ‘the real 3Rs’, Reduce, Reuse and Recycle.
EMERGE Recycling is a social enterprise rooted in sustainable resource management, social value, and quality service. As a licensed waste carrier, we cater to diverse customer needs, including business waste, confidential shredding, food waste, and waste electrical equipment. Our specialist treatment infrastructure allows us to manage waste efficiently, promoting the principles of the real 3Rs: Reduce, Re-use, Recycle.
Our story began in 1996 when we launched as a community business in East Manchester. Over the years, we have expanded into the EMERGE Family, which includes two entities: EMERGE Recycling and EMERGE 3Rs. Operating from our site on New Smithfield Market, EMERGE 3Rs serves as an environmental charity promoting resource conservation. It also runs FareShare Greater Manchester, helping to alleviate food waste and fight food poverty. It also runs the Give & Gain Volunteering and Employability Programme. The two entities work collaboratively, with EMERGE Recycling utilising some its profits to achieve their shared vision. So, in becoming our customer you will also be helping people in need, as well as tackling climate change!
Over the past 24 years we have supplied waste management services to a wide variety of customers, including businesses, schools and universities, charities and social enterprises, the NHS and local government. We are fully accredited with ISO 9001: 2015, BS EN 15713 (covering paper documents as well as IT equipment), SafeContractor, OTC operator licence and we hold a T11 Exemption. In addition to our general recycling services, we also operate reclaimed timber collections and a wood upcycling initiative, Touch Wood; in our shop we upcycle waste wood for sale to the public and train volunteers and work placements to create bespoke products.
Confidential Shredding
Accredited with the British Standard in secure document and data shredding, we are your ideal data management provider, giving you complete GDPR and audit compliance in line with ISO9001, for all your sensitive documentation and computer hardware.
Recycling Services
We offer a full range of recycling services, all of which can be tailored to your specific requirements. From office waste collection, to WEEE destruction and confidential shredding, we can accommodate your needs.
Wood Collection
Do you need to get rid of waste wood? We offer a competitively-priced collection service and process reclaimed timber for resale to the public. We also practice upcycling; creating expertly-crafted items from reclaimed wood in our specialist workshop, including bespoke pieces of furniture.
External Waste Collection
For external collections of bagged, segregated materials such as paper, cardboard, plastic bottles, cans, glass, food and residual waste, we offer a bin service collected at your convenience, on a regular schedule.
Confidential Shredding
Accredited with the British Standard in secure document and data shredding, we are your ideal data management provider, giving you complete GDPR and audit compliance in line with ISO9001, for all your sensitive documentation and computer hardware.
Recycling Services
We offer a full range of recycling services, all of which can be tailored to your specific requirements. From office waste collection, to WEEE destruction and confidential shredding, we can accommodate your needs.
Wood Collection
Do you need to get rid of waste wood? We offer a competitively-priced collection service and process reclaimed timber for resale to the public. We also practice upcycling; creating expertly-crafted items from reclaimed wood in our specialist workshop, including bespoke pieces of furniture.
External Waste Collection
For external collections of bagged, segregated materials such as paper, cardboard, plastic bottles, cans, glass, food and residual waste, we offer a bin service collected at your convenience, on a regular schedule.
Operating since 1996, EMERGE Recycling has been from the outset one of the pioneers in recycling services in Greater Manchester; commencing with the provision of event and kerbside collections and then expanding into schools and office waste collection and confidential shredding.
Assisted in providing recycling services to 80,000+ homes
Provided free recycling service to over 150 schools
Active
volunteers
Collecting from over 900 businesses in Greater Manchester
“Emerge have a fantastic team of people who always ensure we receive the very highest standard of service with our recycling. They add real value to our business with all of the great services they provide us with and I would not hesitate to recommend them to any organisation of any size.”
Mike Carter, Managing Director, Chariot Office Supplies
Recycling Week 2024 – EMERGE Recycling
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Recycling Week 2024 – Spotlight on Touch Wood
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