News Archive

20 Mar 2013 : Short listed for National Recycling Award
J&B Recycling have been short listed for the Recycling and Waste Management Business of the Year (SME category) in the Read more

15 Mar 2013 : J&B Bags Another Award
On 14th March at Teesside University J&B were crowned winners of the Corporate Responsibility and Environment Award for the Teesside Area at the North East Business Awards, in recognition of our “outstanding achievement in how compani Read more

08 Jan 2013 : Zero Waste to Landfill Scheme
J&B have recently launched a Zero Waste to Landfill accreditation scheme. We will assess our  customers waste collection and disposal routes and for those that qualify we will provide them with a certificate as shown below. Read more

18 Dec 2012 : Christmas Recycling
J&B Recycling will sort through thousands of tonnes of Christmas cards, wrapping paper and packaging as people and businesses throw out their festive waste. In addition, more food waste and electrical items will be disposed of at Chris Read more

12 Dec 2012 : Young Apprentices Set For Bright Futures
A young apprentice has been given the best possible mentor in his new job, a colleague who has risen through the business after starting in a similar role. Josh Robson is working towards an accounts apprenticeship at award-winning wa Read more

16 Nov 2012 : J&B Business of the Year 2012
J&B Recycling were named “Business of the Year” at Star Radio’s Business Awards at the Xcel Centre in Newton Aycliffe on Thursday 15th November. Judges of the category were looking for evidence of how businesses Read more

01 Nov 2012 : View is clear with UPVC campaign
Our campaign to encourage window and door manufacturers to recycle their old UPVC products has proved a success.  Read more

10 Sep 2012 : Proud to join the team
We are delighted to welcome Mick Proud to J & B Recycling as our new production manager. Mick joins us with more than 20 years’ industry experience  and will have a specific role to identify ways in which J & B Recycling can Read more

29 Jul 2012 : Blooming Good Show
Joining forces with Mr Bloom J & B Recycling helped to spread the green message when a popular children’s TV character came to town. Read more

16 Jul 2012 : Paper Anniversary for Recycling Contract
Recycling rates rocket at Tees Valley Bring sites Our scheme to manage all of the bring sites across the Tees Valley has celebrated a successful first year anniversary. Read more

16 Jul 2012 : CHAS Approved
J&B are now a CHAS approved supplier (Contractors Health and Safety Assessment Scheme). We means that our Health and Safety has been  assessed to a nationally recognised and accepted threshold standard. See our Read more

31 May 2012 : Odd Jobs
Our Remote Facilities Manager Brett Cullinane was the subject of the Northern Echo’s weekly Odd Jobs feature. Read more here Read more

14 May 2012 : Angel Spreads the Recycling Message
J&B Recycling has teamed up with one of the region’s most iconic hotels to help achieve its aim of zero waste to landfill. When The Angel View Inn in Gateshead reviewed its recycling rates, it knew more could be done to red Read more

13 May 2012 : Farm Project is Just the Job for J&B
J&B Recycling has been thanked for its role in helping to restore an historic farmhouse into a valued community resource. Regeneration and housing company Coast & Country renovated the 18th century Westfield Farm a Read more

05 Apr 2012 : J&B on TV
J&B Recycling became television stars when Tyne Tees News came down to our plant to learn more about our future investments. To watch the clip and learn more about the deal, click the links below: Read more

20 Mar 2012 : A Force To Be Reckoned With
J&B Recycling’s managing director Vikki Jackson-Smith was the subject of an extended feature in her hometown newspaper the Hartlepool Mail. Read the article here: Hartlepool Mail Read more

28 Feb 2012 : Cafe Raises its Glass to J&B
J&B Recycling is helping a green-minded café reduce its carbon footprint. When Café NeST opened in Barnard Castle’s Newgate last summer it knew it wanted to recycle as much of its waste as possible. Read more

20 Feb 2012 : The Future is Green for Yarm
Year 4 pupils from Yarm Preparatory School spent a morning at J&B Recycling to learn what happens to waste. Twenty three children brought their own bags of rubbish to recycle before watching them being weighed, sorted and package Read more

01 Jan 2012 : Sagely Service
J&B Recycling is helping one of the world’s leading software companies in its aim to achieve zero waste to landfill following the award for the contract to manage all waste from Sage UK’s headquarters at North Park in Newca Read more

08 Dec 2011 : Regional Growth Fund Award to J&B
Five more successful North-East bids to the flagship “regional growth fund” (RGF) were announced recently. The five schemes appeared to have missed out when the region was awarded £93m from the second round of the RGF in Novem Read more

19 May 2011 : Hartlepool Business Awards
The annual Hartlepool Business Awards have came around again. The prestigious Awards Read more

25 Apr 2011 : Recycle For Tees Valley
J&B Recycling are also proud to announce a new contract with the Tees Valley Partnership to provide recycling banks in Redcar and Cleveland, Darlington, Stockton, Middlesbrough, and Hartlepool council areas. Under the new ‘Bringsite O Read more

17 Jan 2011 : J&B to Move Mountain
J&B Recycling is set for further expansion after securing a contract to clear a waste mountain next door to its head office.  The Hartlepool company will remove the nine metre high rubbish tip in the town’s Thomlinson Read more