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MyRecorra – Your Online Hub for Everything Recorra

Recorra’s all new portal - for all your recycling data, resources and service insights.

Recorra’s International Women’s Day 2024

Women in Waste: Recorra celebrate International Women’s Day 2024

Why is sustainability reporting essential for green business models?

Sustainability reporting is critical to measuring sustainability performance, sharing sustainability impacts and understanding how sustainability can create value for stakeholders.

Recorra’s tips for a more sustainable Valentine’s Day

How to reduce your carbon footprint on the most romantic day of the year.

Tackling Climate Change: The Transformative Power of Effective Waste Management

Waste management plays a critical role in climate change mitigation. Governments must look beyond landfill and energy from waste solutions to the waste companies pushing for a more sustainable future.

From Waste to Plate: Recorra and Plan Zheroes tackle food waste across London

Recorra’s new charity partnership with Plan Zheroes is helping to reduce food poverty and food waste across London, with each food waste collection from Recorra customers.

Empowering Occupiers: The Next Phase of Recorra’s Waste Reporting Portal Upgrades

Recorra's new portal empowers occupiers to manage their waste more effectively.

Emission Trading and the Burning Question of Waste Management

In the fifth instalment of our blog post series, we will break down UK emissions trading post-Brexit, and what that will mean for businesses.

From Chaos to Clarity: The UK's Legislative Drive for Simplified Recycling

In the next blog post in our series on UK legislation changes, we will break down the government’s new ‘Simpler Recycling’ initiative, where Prime Minister Rishi Sunak infamously scrapped the ‘seven bins’ system for a more streamlined recycling process.

Trash in, Cash Out: Improving Recycling Through Deposit Return Schemes

The UK waste sector is undergoing substantive reform over the next few years. This introduces the introduction of a scheme aimed at reducing litter and raising recycling rates. In the third of our blog post series on upcoming legislative changes, we explore Deposit Return Schemes (DRS) and what this means for the waste industry and for Recorra customers.

Weighing In on Waste: How SmartWeigh is Changing the Waste Management Game

An app-based weighing solution to measure building occupier waste & recycling output, with exclusive patent-pending technology, developed to save time and money.

Shifting the Burden: Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) holds producers responsible

In the second of our series of legislative change blogs, we explore the topic of Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR for short) and what this will mean for your business. So, let’s dive in……

Legislative Labyrinth: what you need to know about upcoming waste regulation changes

Recorra break down changing waste regulations for UK businesses.

The Wheels of Change: E-Bike Recycling Collections

This month we launched our new e-bike scheme! Recorra are once again developing innovative solutions to complex challenges, with our zero emission operation running in London and Brighton.

Igniting Change: Harnessing Battery and Vape Recycling to Combat Fires

Introducing Scrummi towel recycling – our new compostable service

Find out about our new partnership with Scrummi, which will take your compostables to new environmental heights.

Changing gear on the electrification of Recorra’s fleet

Celebrating International Women's Day

This international day, some of the women of Recorra share their experience of working in the waste management industry.

bio-bean: harnessing the power of spent coffee grounds to safeguard our planet

At Recorra, we visited our brilliant coffee ground recycling partner bio-bean in Cambridgeshire. Read all about their brilliant work in this blog.