Recycle IT Mission
Create sustainable local employment through a community based, professional circular economy service.
Recycle IT Vision
Become an environmental hub creating sustainable employment.
Our service is based in Clondalkin Dublin 22. Our teams service Dublin city and the counties surrounding Dublin including Wicklow and Kildare, Meath and Louth. We are authorized to collect in the province of Leinster.
Recycle IT is partly funded and regularly applies for applicable grants and funding to deliver community recycling services. Earned income is used to augment grant funding.
Recycle IT engage with individual households, resident associations, charities, schools, local authorities, government organizations, community groups and businesses to provide safe electrical recycling services to those with differing needs and budgets. We also recycled metal and offer recycling initiatives through partnership.
What we achieved in 2024
In 2024, our community electrical recycling initiatives achieved it goals. It collected over 760 tons of unwanted electrical, metal, and mixed materials, preventing them from ending up in landfills and reducing harmful environmental impact.
The project engaged more than 60,000 households, schools, colleges, charities, community groups and businesses raising awareness about safe recycling and promoting sustainable habits. Through our work with schools, we supported over 350 responsible e-waste collections and safe disposal of equipment.
Recycle IT as a social enterprise offered 24 employment, training and work experience opportunities leading to skills development and a route for progression.
We have increased our services to organisations and received funding to expand our community recycling reach for small household appliance across South Dublin.
In 2024 Recycle IT started its journey towards environmental certification with support from Irish Social Enterprise Network through the GreenBoost4WISEs initiative.
As part of this journey, Recycle IT is working with EcoMerit, a sustainable energy community, registered with the Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland. We are committed to improving our environmental performance, sustainability, social and overall governance . Please find a copy of our Environmental Policy here.
We align with the Sustainable Development Goals.
We will continue our efforts in 2025 to not only improved environmental outcomes but also strengthened community connections and inspired positive change in community recycling.
What we achieved in 2023
In 2023 our team of 25 full time staff and trainees recycled over 740 tons of waste electrical, electronic equipment and metal. This was a decrease on the 2022 a bumper year for Recycle IT. During 2023 we offered collections is 64,800 homes with support from residents associations, local councilors and community groups in South Dublin, Dublin City, Dún Laoghaire–Rathdown, Kildare and Wicklow.
Our team completed 1800 organisational collections from schools, colleges, charities, community group and business organisations. We also provide recyclers with access to a drop-off at Recycle IT, Monday to Friday.
Project work included recycling 950 with support from South Dublin County Council and planning a pilot mattress colleciton service in association with Bounce Back Recycling, a social enterprise delivering social, environmental & societal impacts that make economic sense.
You will find further details below.
What we achieved in 2022
During 2022 our team helped recycle 833 tons of waste electrical, electronic equipment and metal. This was a 27.5% increase on the 2021 figure. The tonnages recycled include office electrical, and IT equipment, commercial business equipment, schools and domestic household appliances.
Our team completed over 1800 collections, a 12.5% increase on the 2021 collection rate. We also offered a weekly drop-off service which operates Monday to Friday.
Our Work
Our teams offer helpful, well-regarded and cost-effective collection services to personal and business customers. We can visit your location and cost-effectively collect all types of dual-purpose home and office electrical, electronic and pure metal equipment.
Collection services to schools, colleges, youth training organisations, community groups, resident associations and charities are offered free.
Our Board
The key purpose of our experienced board of directors is to ensure the organization achieves its goals in terms of social, economic, and environmental progression.
This is achieved by collectively directing the organization’s affairs while meeting the interests of stakeholders including employees, recyclers, communities, government agencies, funders, business customers and partners.
Complying with all necessary reporting, legislation, and regulations and ensuring a high standard of governance, transparency and accountability are key objectives for the board of directors.
Our Current Board Members are:
| Name | Role |
| Mark Lynch | Director |
| Fionnghuala Ryan | Director |
| Mary Clare Wallace | Director |
| Cecil Johnston | Company Secretary |
| Cllr. Guss O’Connell | Director |
| Sorcha O’Brien | Director |
| Emily Smart | Chairperson |
| Dónal O’Brien | Director |
Employment
In December 2023 Recycle IT provided employment and training positions to a team of 25 persons. This is a 19% percent increase on 2022. Since 2019 the number of trainees taking up employment and training opportunities through labour activation return-to-work schemes has reduced as the economy experiences full employment.
Labour Force Survey (LFS) results published each November by the Central Statistics Office show a continued recovery from the pandemic in Ireland’s labour market, with an estimated 2,655,900 persons in employment in Q3 2023, up 4.0% (101,600) from 2.55 million in Q3 2022. This again was an increase of approximately 3.4 % over Q3 2021.
Recycle IT in general, support people more distant from the labour market in taking a first step into the world of employment or we support individuals returning to work after a period away. Our recycling service offers real work in a team environment, which builds confidence and experience through service delivery.
WEEE Ireland
Recycle IT work in collaboration with WEEE Ireland. In 2022, WEEE Ireland helped recycle 113,000 fridges, 225,000 TVs and monitors, 2.2 million lighting items and the equivalent of 60 million used AA portable batteries. Recycle IT contributed 833 tonnes to this total.
WEEE Ireland’s annual report for 2022 shows that consumers recycled a record number of e-waste items last year – 40,804 tonnes or just over 10kg per person in Ireland. A total of 19.5million appliances were recovered nationwide in 2022.
The annual report shows 52 per cent of electrical waste was collected from retailer sites in 2022, 24 per cent from local public collection days, but only 24 per cent from local authority sites, which is significantly lower than the 60 per cent average in other European countries. Dropping off at local authority sites supported sites such as Recycle IT can help increase electrical recycling rates and it’s free to drop!
CEO of WEEE Ireland, Leo Donovan said “Our collaboration with KMK Metals Recycling in the midlands has been instrumental in processing e-waste to the highest European standards and ensuring its recycling into secondary critical and strategic materials,” said, Mr. Donovan.
“Last year, we got more out of these recovered items than ever before. We have developed a national recycling and material recovery infrastructure that provides a local solution to a global challenge and contributes significantly to the circular economy.”
You can visit the website to learn more – www.weeeireland.ie
Recycle IT Electric Van
Mattress Recycling – Community Recycling Initiative
Over the last 3 years, Recycle IT has operated a 6–8-week mattress recycling initiative in partnership with South Dublin County Council. This initiative is offered free in the community. It is offered to residents and aims to increase the number of household mattresses recycled correctly prior to Halloween and bonfire season. The Recycle IT team has supported the collection and safe recycling of approx. 2900 mattresses over 3 years. We are aiming for a similar number in 2024
Each year this recycling initiative offers valuable hands-on work experience to people taking up back-to-work training positions within social enterprises. This year Recycle IT will work with Bounce Back Mattress Recycling to delivers social, environmental & societal impacts that make economic sense and provide valuable work experience.
Mattresses are accepted through drop-off and community collection events. They are recorded, stored, catalogued and transported for deconstructed, and the components are recycled: For example.
• Steel bed springs become reusable steel.
• Polyurethane foam recycled for the furniture industry.
• Cloth and polyester synthetic fiber’s reused as residual fuel disposal for industry.
Financial Statement
Recycle IT like other companies are required to keep proper books of account which give a true and fair view of the company’s financial affairs. We are also required to disclose details of their financial statements at the Annual General Meeting (AGM) and to attach a copy of those financial statements to the annual return filed with the CRO.
In addition, Recycle IT is required to observe standards in the preparation of financial statements, following specimen formats and disclosing certain information by way of notes to the financial statements. Transparency ensures that information is available and can be used to measure performance and help identify potential risks to our financial wellbeing.
In the interest of transparency please find Recycle IT financial statements for the last 3 years listed below:
Financial statement for 2024Â here
Financial statement for 2023Â here
Financial statement for 2022 here
Finally
Recycle IT endeavors to support people living and working in communities including householders and place an emphasis on individual needs. Our collection and facility teams are experienced and happy to support people requiring additional assistance once safe to do so. Today our team helps recycle electronic, electrical, and pure metal equipment from homes and organizations.
Recycle IT as a social enterprise is partly funded through the Community Services Programme (CSP). CSP currently supports community-based organizations to provide local social, economic and environmental services through a social enterprise model and create employment opportunities for disadvantaged people. CSP offers financial support to assist with the cost of hiring staff for community companies and co-operatives.
Please find copies of our annual results below. The reports are presented in infographic format and cover the years from 2017 to 2021.
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recycle-it-infographic_overview_for_2021Download
recycle-it-infographic-overview-for-2020 Download
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