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Wiser Recycling offices will be closed from Friday 23rd December until we reopen on Tuesday 3rd January. During this time, we have skeleton crew completing collection services to the Household Waste Recycling Centres we service and any other urgent jobs that are...

In our last post-fire update for this year, we can report that the old St Ives site will be demolished in the New Year with the rebuild expected to start in the spring. We don’t yet have a schedule for recommencing operations but these are positive steps for the...

Our sister company, Wiser Environment,  has seen two more Fire Prevention Plans (FPPs) approved by the Enviornment Agency (EA) this week retaining the environmental consultancy's 100% success rate. In March 2016 Standard Rules for environmental permits for existing...

Wiser Recycling has won a Green Apple Award for Environmental Best Practice 2016 in the Green Organisation’s annual campaign to find the greenest companies, councils and communities. Competing against over 500 nominations, we won our award for our innovative approach...

Wiser Recycling is operating business as usual since the fire that consumed its Cambridgeshire facility last month. In fact, the company has been complimented by a number of clients who have been impressed by Wiser’s ability to provide continued high levels of service...

Five days after the fire that destroyed Wiser Recycling’s Approved Authorised Treatment Facility in St Ives, Cambridgeshire, Managing Director Russell Hirst reflects on how far the company has come in a week: Is it only five days since fire destroyed our St Ives...

Wiser Recycling can confirm that a fire spread through our Approved Authorised Treatment Facility in St Ives, Cambridgeshire yesterday afternoon. Our staff evacuated very quickly and there were no injuries from the incident but what started as a small fire took hold...

Low government targets for waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE) have caused turmoil in the industry, particularly in relation to local authority collections. The low targets set by DEFRA have meant that many producer compliance schemes (PCS) have already...

Wiser Recycling was a runner-up in the Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE) Innovation Award at the MRW Awards for Excellence last night. This prestigious industry award recognises those in the recycling industry that have taken a creative and innovative...

Wiser Recycling has installed a Smash Boom Bang at the company’s Cambridgeshire facility to broaden its capability to process small mixed waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE). With three Approved Authorised Treatment Facilities (AATFs) across the UK, Wiser...