Reconomy Social Enterprise
Channelling spending into local businesses & supporting local communities
Our Community Interest Company
The Reconomy Social Enterprise Community Interest Company (CIC) serves as an umbrella organisation for various social enterprises and charities. These enterprises address challenges from managing hard-to-recycle materials to helping socially disadvantaged and vulnerable people access employment.
Through Reconomy Social Enterprise CIC, we create partnerships between the charities we work with and Reconomy customers to find new, innovative uses for preloved or surplus materials. This simultaneously drives circular practices, social value, and community connection. By building new material streams, we help businesses find uses for surplus materials, giving them a new life and diverting them from landfill.
Why partner with the Reconomy Social Enterprise?
Proud to be a Social Enterprise UK Member
“We are incredibly proud to be members of Social Enterprise UK and to stand alongside such an inspiring community of organisations dedicated to driving meaningful change. At Reconomy, our purpose is to enable the circular economy for our customers, using technology to build partnerships that create a more sustainable world, and being part of this network allows us to amplify that mission on a much larger scale.
Membership provides us with the opportunity to collaborate with like-minded businesses, influence decision-makers, and contribute to building a fairer, more sustainable economy for everyone. We’re excited about the role we can play within this vibrant network and look forward to working together to champion the power and potential of social enterprises across the UK.”
– Ben Richardson, Commerical Director, Reconomy Recycle Loop
Protect and enhance your reputation
By delivering against TOMs and aligning with SCAPE, you can clearly evidence ethical practice, community impact and sustainability leadership. This transparency reduces reputational risk, strengthens stakeholder trust and positions your organisation as a responsible partner that goes beyond compliance to deliver genuine social value.
Help bring about change and support care leavers
Through the Reconomy Social Enterprise we channel spend into local businesses, supporting local communities and generating 0.12p of social value for every £1 spent. Profits are invested with our partner charity The National House Project (NHP) supporting young adults leaving care, moving into new accommodation, and using the NHP ‘Welcome Box’ to set up home.
Delivers on any TOMs or SCAPE frameworks
Our services are designed to map directly to TOMs (Themes, Outcomes and Measures), providing clear, auditable evidence across environmental sustainability, local employment, skills development and community benefit. We also support compliance with SCAPE frameworks, making it easier to demonstrate added value beyond core service delivery. In short, working with us turns waste management into a practical, reportable contribution to your social value commitments—without adding complexity.
The Reconomy Social Enterprise in action
Find out more about some of the incredible work already delivered by the Reconomy Social Enterprise.
Our customer Mears generously donated the value of aluminium scrap to the Reconomy Social Enterprise CIC. This year, we have collaborated with several organisations, including the Cycle of Good Charity, New Life Charity, and Community Wood CIC, to support Reconomy Connect customers. Since 2024, this initiative has generated £19,800 in revenue and facilitated 128 projects, furthering our commitment to social impact and sustainability.
Through work undertaken with customers operating in the facilities management sector, we have overseen the donation of surplus hand sanitizer to Cameroon in Central Africa to be used in the fight against the Monkey Pox outbreak. In Malawi, we are developing furniture take-back schemes to redistribute and reuse office furniture for use in schools. We have also developed partnerships between construction companies and community wood projects to repurpose waste construction materials.
In 2023, Reconomy facilitated the reuse of surplus furniture from a newly refurbished McDonald’s restaurant in Lymm (Warrington). The furniture was donated to the YMCA, showcasing how commercial-grade restaurant furnishings can be repurposed instead of being discarded as waste.
Building on the success of this initiative, the project expanded in 2024, with surplus furniture from McDonald’s Bromley and Droitwich locations also donated to community projects and charities. For example, stools from the Droitwich restaurant found a new home at One Vision School of Arts, where they are now used for rehearsals and performances, creating both circularity and social value.
We are working with Paint360 to transform the way paint is consumed and disposed of. In 2021, we helped to implement a UK-wide take-back scheme for paint cans, involving major paint manufacturers and decorators. We worked together to produce recycled paint products (minimum 65%), which help our customers embrace closed-loop solutions that save on resources and carbon emissions. We use our logistics network to collect waste paint from companies and local authorities in the UK for recycling and resale, providing comparable quality to leading paint brands. At the same time, Paint 360 creates employment opportunities for hard-to-reach groups in paint recycling, contributing to social value objectives.
What could our next project be?
Through the Reconomy Social Enterprise, we can support your next project, with a wide range of services such as:
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