Please visit our dedicated COVID-19 page for our position statement and information
Make a Material Difference in the Heart of the North West region
EMERGE helps Liverpool and Merseyside manage their waste sustainably.
As the North West becomes more sustainable, EMERGE can help you keep green. Our team has the expertise to help Liverpool businesses recycle their waste correctly. Stop worrying about how your current partners manage your waste. Work with EMERGE, and we will handle it with care.
Sustainability is our core value. Businesses and individuals need to understand its importance so they can improve. Our customers understand their own environmental responsibility, and come to us for help with achieving their goals.
Liverpool has set the goal of becoming a net-zero city by 2030. It’s essential that businesses reduce their carbon footprint to reach this target. That’s why we cater for waste collections for all waste streams. This helps more businesses to hit carbon footprint goals.
We work with different partners depending on your waste stream. It’s important to handle and recycle your waste correctly, and we will ensure that happens. We want to make waste management easier for you and your business. When your waste arrives at EMERGE, we will separate it, take it to a specialist to repurpose, reuse, and recycle it.
Your waste management needs to be sustainable. This is why we will make it as easy as possible for you to recycle with EMERGE.
Get a quote for your recycling now
Recycling Enquiry
Liverpool, we can recycle your waste.
Our team can handle a wide range of waste types. Depending on your business, we should be able to handle your waste effectively.
Our waste solutions include:
- Cardboard and paper
- Confidential shredding/ data destruction
- Glass waste
- Wood
- WEEE (Waste Electricals)
- Food waste
- Metals
- Batteries and fluorescent tubes
- Printer ink and Toner cartridges
- Plastic waste
If you’re looking to dispose of any of these items, we can ensure it’s done in compliance with legislation. Waste collection in Liverpool needs to improve, making sure it is as efficient as possible. Make sure any business waste from Merseyside and Liverpool is collected and recycled by experts.
Help to keep Liverpool sustainable.
Liverpool and Merseyside are striving towards a more sustainable future. We look to work with businesses on meeting their carbon footprint targets. Ensure you are doing what you can to be sustainable. Don’t let your waste go to a landfill. Understand the potential your waste has, and do your part to dispose of it correctly.
We want to help Liverpool lead the way in sustainable business waste management. With our 25 years of experience, we understand how you should be handling your waste. Get in touch with our team and discover what we can do to help.
Help Liverpool reach net zero by 2030. EMERGE can help you to simplify your waste management, providing essential, sustainable support.
Confidential Shredding
We offer a comprehensive, fully GDPR-compliant confidential document shredding service; carried out on our secure specialist site and destroyed within one working day of collection. We can also provide secure, robust lockable cabinets and containers for you to place your confidential papers in within your premises prior to collection.
Office and On-Site Collections
From a one-off removal when you’re having a clear-out, through to daily pick-up, we offer a flexible office waste collection service from inside your premises.
External Bin Collections
We offer paper, cardboard, and residual waste collections from external 1100L bins at an agreed frequency. We also have extensive experience of waste management for a variety of events, including the recycling provision for major festivals.
Schools Recycling
We currently work with a number of schools, further education and higher education institutions, and are accustomed to tailoring our services to the specific needs of academia, including the provision of DBS checked drivers.
WEEE and Hazardous Waste Recycling
Working with specialist reprocessing partners, we can recycle ICT devices, electrical and electronic appliances, small electrical equipment and digital media as well as hazardous items like batteries, fluorescent light tubes. All data-bearing devices are securely destroyed in compliance with GDPR legislation.
Wood Recycling
Working in partnership with our reclaimed timber operation, Touch Wood, we offer a competitively-priced waste wood collection service as well as a wood workshop where a team of staff and volunteers processes discarded wood ready for sale to the public, as well as creating new items, from chopping boards to furniture. We can also make bespoke pieces to order.
Drop-offs to the EMERGE site
As well as our collection service, we accept drop-offs of items and materials to our site including, paper, cardboard, plastic bottles, IT equipment, polythene, cable, aluminium and steel cans and toner cartridges. We can also accept WEEE items by prior arrangement.
Daily Takeaway Kerbside Service
With office space at a premium in Liverpool city centre, our‘pay-as-you-throw’ kerbside collection service for recycling and general waste is perfectly suited to businesses who have little room to accommodate their materials for disposal. No long-term commitment is required.
Recycling FAQs
If you have a question, please have a look through our FAQs to see if we have already answered it! If not, do not hesitate to get in touch! We will always try to help however we can.
EMERGE Recycling is a licensed waste carrier, registered with the Environment Agency, and holds several waste operation permits. EMERGE is a Registered Treatment Facility for WEEE and holds a T11 Exemption. To see our documentation, please click below.
Operating from our secure site in Openshaw, we have over 20 years’ experience supplying waste management services and recycling to a wide variety of customers, including businesses, schools, charities, the NHS and local government. EMERGE Recycling is fully accredited with ISO 9001: 2015, BS EN 15713, SafeContractor and an OTC operator licence. To find out more about our documentation, please click ‘Learn More’.
If you have any questions, or you just need some advice on waste reduction, re-use and recycling in Liverpool, we’ll do our very best to help. Please see our Contact page for ways to get in touch.
Our relationship with our customers
EMERGE Recycling is reliable, responsible, friendly and flexible and very responsive to our customers’ needs.
The world of recycling can be daunting and is often bound by strict legislation. We will advise you if we can, and if we can’t, we’ll point you in the direction of someone who can. We care about our customers and will strive to do what’s right; always putting people and the planet before profit.
“We’ve used several of the well-known waste disposal companies, but it quickly became apparent, after the first couple of collections, that EMERGE’s service goes above and beyond their competitors.”
Anthony Devine, Founder, Ministry of Furniture
Our Green Credentials
EMERGE really is a down-to-earth enterprise, in every sense of the phrase. Wherever feasible, we strive to use modern technologies to limit our carbon footprint; from our vehicles to our plant equipment, and, wherever possible, we send materials to reprocessors as close to Liverpool as we can, in order to keep both costs and fuel emissions low.
We pride ourselves in practicing what we preach; reducing, reusing and recycling everything within our own operations, and carrying out 3Rs and real recycling awareness training for our own personnel. EMERGE’s company policy is to buy recycled items, such as stationery, wherever we can (thereby supporting the recycling industry). We reuse paper and other resources for as long as possible. We strive to minimise waste and keep consumption low for things like water and energy. Wherever feasible, we limit our use of toxic products and actively control any pollutants that the company creates.
Social Impact
In addition to our environmental focus, EMERGE Recycling is also an award-winning social enterprise, with our profits contributing to our parent charity, EMERGE 3Rs. We are highly invested in our local community; providing employment, training and volunteering opportunities for local people.