Recycling Lives buys struggling Wirral business

Recycling Lives has saved 11 jobs and created one more with the purchase of McCoy Brothers, which had gone into administration.

The Wirral operation becomes the company's fourth facility opened this year and its eighth overall across Lancashire, Cumbria, Greater Manchester and the Midlands.

Recycling Lives also operates a state-of-the-art recycling park in Preston. The company recently won a social impact award for its job creation, offender rehabilitation, food redistribution and tackling homelessness.

Managing Director William Fletcher said: “This site will continue to be a scrap metal and scrap car processing facility from which we’ll offer the best prices on the Wirral. “Our commercial growth is matched by the growth of our charitable programmes. We recently opened another of our HMP Academies - prison workshops offering training and work undertaking welding and fabrication for offenders - in a Merseyside prison, HMP Altcourse, while our food charity is growing significantly.”