LOCHGELLY High School’s Employability Initiative is making a real impact on both pupils and the local business community. The school regarded itself as extremely fortunate to be visited by two local business leaders, John Penman from Fifab, and Frankie Hodge, from Lochgelly social enterprise, Recycle Fife, who took time out from their busy schedules to [...]
It is great to see an increase in the amount of skips Recycle Fife are delivering to the Glenrothes, Kirkcaldy and Leven areas. We have taken on a few new customers whose own work ranges from supplies to manufacturing and building work to healthcare. Collecting a variety of materials ranging from pallets to cardboard and [...]
Since delivering our first skip back in January 2010, Recycle Fife Skip Hire has fast become a first class skip hiring service, providing customers with cheap, competitive prices. Due to the steady increase in skip hire, Recycle Fife is pleased to announce the introduction of a new vehicle to our fleet – a 7.5T DAF [...]
The Saltire Award, sponsored by the Scottish Government, is an hour-based Award Scheme to recognise, reward and thank young people for their volunteering work. Young volunteers can gain a number of certificates beginning with 10 hours all the way up to 500 hours. Michael volunteers with Recycle Fife, a local Social Enterprise based in Lochgelly. [...]
A LOCAL MP has reacted with anger after it was revealed that long-term youth unemployment in his constituency has soared by more than 900% in a year. And Lindsay Roy (Glenrothes andCentral Fife) has warned that drastic action is needed immediately to halt the staggering rise. The MP for Cardenden and Kinglassie said this week, [...]
What does ‘recycling’ mean? To most of us it means extra different coloured bins in your garden, or at your gate, and groans as you try to work out which item goes in which bin, and on what day. What happens to the bins and their contents then, after collection? The contents are taken away, [...]
18 May 2012 New Waste (Scotland) Regulations have been passed by Scottish Parliament, which will require all businesses to separate paper and card, plastic, metal and glass for recycling by January 2014. Businesses that produce more than 5kg of food waste per week will also need to separate this for collection. To support the changes [...]
Two raids in January saw fuel stolen from a Lochgelly company along with electric cabling. Staff at Recycle Fife saw them lose the best part of a day’s work collecting and recycling the host of items, which has made the social enterprise a highly successful operation. Company Director at the Cartmore Industrial Estate operation, Jackie [...]
Lochgelly based Social Enterprise Recycle Fife has received a £580,000 investment from the Scottish Investment Fund (SIF) of which £290,000 is loan capital. SIF is managed by Social Investment Scotland on behalf of the Scottish Government. This significant investment will enable Recycle Fife to expand its Recycling Depot, invest in new machinery, and create new [...]
Recycle Fife is a Social Enterprise, which was formed in 2003 in opposition to proposed plans for a landfill site. Frankie Hodge and Jackie Dunsmuir joined an action group to look at alternatives to Scottish Coals proposals for the landfill site. Born from this was Recycle Fife, which sees Jackie and Frankie at the helm. [...]
