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Carbon conscious Fresh Start Waste expand environmentally friendly fleet

Fresh Start Waste are continuing to enact their ‘Carbon Conscious Recycling Collections’ pledge with further investment in new Euro 6 engine vehicles, with quieter bin lift technology, that have been deployed to service business across Liverpool and Manchester.

Can you recycle Christmas decorations?

After unwrapping presents and polishing off any leftovers, the Christmas holidays often leave us with more rubbish to get rid of than usual. It means our recycling bins are overflowing too, including plenty of decorations. However, it’s also common for the wrong things to end up in them. This makes recyclers’ jobs both more complicated and costly.

Fresh Start Waste helps UK net zero carbon target by supporting UK tree planting programme

As part of their commitment to providing a sustainable waste management solution to businesses, Fresh Start have invested heavily in energy efficient vehicles as well as technology to ensure route planning of collections are as efficient as possible, resulting in lower carbon output year on year proportionately.

Online payments: the latest innovation from Fresh Start

Customers can now make payments through our website at their own convenience 24 hours a day.

Fresh Start’s women in waste

A focal point in the movement for women’s rights, Fresh Start wanted to highlight the importance of IWD, so we spoke to some of our inspiring female team members ahead of the big day to learn more about what it is like to be a woman in waste.

Fresh Start takes essential steps to safeguard cyber security

The public declaration comes during European Cybersecurity Month, an annual awareness month which takes place each October.

Fresh Start partners with Coffee4Craig to help Manchester’s homeless community

Fresh Start have been helping a city centre homelessness charity to manage its waste generated from feeding dozens of rough sleepers every day. Volunteers at Coffee4Craig serve more than 80 guests each evening – providing support, hot food, food parcels, showers and medical support alongside mental health crisis intervention to Manchester’s growing homeless community.

Remember to recycle your pumpkins this Halloween

The UK grows around 10 million pumpkins each year, and as these giant squashes love plenty of rain, this summer has meant a bumper harvest for farmers across the country. The growers have a deadline to hit, with the vast majority of the pumpkin crop being snapped up by consumers in the week prior to October 31st.

Fresh Start continues to invest in staff development

They have each earned a Level 4 Award, Certificate and Diploma from the Institute of Leadership and Management (ILM) – certifying that they have the knowledge, personal abilities and technical skills needed to be an effective manager.