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Medequip – as the UK’s largest provider of Community Equipment Services is very proud of our efforts to maximise recycling
and reuse equipment. Over 90% of equipment collected back from our clients is cleaned, repaired, re-packed and reused.
Sometimes we do have products that are not able to be recycled for contractual reasons, and we therefore aim to find
alternate uses for these items if at all possible, only diverting to material reclamation as a last resort.
One example of this is our partnership working with Brighter Future in Skelmersdale, Lancashire. We work with them by providing
equipment we can no longer use, but which they can re-build or salvage for parts in their workshop which employs young people
with disabilities. They are an award winning social enterprise charity - that has been awarded The Queens Award for Enterprise
in Sustainable Development and this year winners of the 2017 MRW National Recycling Awards Waste for “Electrical and Electronic
Equipment Innovation” and winners of the 2017 North West Enterprise Awards for "Best Disability Aids & Equipment Recycling".
Read more about Brighter Futures here: www.bfworkshop.co.uk