RESIDENT Becomes Full Time Team Leader

A CONSCIENTIOUS Recycling Lives Resident has excelled during his voluntary work placement and been offered a job as the Bulky Waste Team Leader.

Thirty one-year-old Lee has this week been offered the job as Team Leader of the new Bulky Waste service.

This is great news for Lee who came to Recycling Lives on a self-referral after he completed an alcohol rehabilitation programme.

Bulky Waste has been developed through a partnership with Preston City Council and aims to reduce the amount of bulky household items being sent to landfill.

The service which was only launched this month revolutionises Preston City Council’s previous bulky waste service which saw all the waste being put into landfill regardless of whether it could have been recycled.

Householders in Preston can now ring Recycling Lives and request for any large and unwanted household items such as furniture or old electrical appliances to be collected from their home and taken to be recycled.

Recycling Lives aims to reuse or recycle around 90 per cent of the waste it collects with re-usable items cleaned up, repaired and then tested for safety.

Any re-usable items will then be passed on at low cost for reuse by local community members who can’t afford to buy new.

Items that cannot be reused whole but have reusable parts will be stripped down, with the useful parts being stored and used to repair similar items. Anything that can’t be reused will be recycled if possible.

It is Lee’s job to organise the team and to help sort the furniture and restore it if possible.

Initially Lee will be making up his full time hours by by PAT testing for Recycling Lives.

Lee said: “I’ve had a really good week as I have found out I start full time employment on May 4. I will be PAT testing for half the week and making up the hours driving the Bulky Waste wagon. This really is a positive end to an otherwise difficult year.”