Bryson Recycling
Belfast Road Central Park Mallusk BT36 4FS, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom
- 028 9084 8494
- info@brysonrecycling.org
- https://www.brysonrecycling.org
Services
- Pick Up
- Drop Off
About Bryson Recycling
Bryson began its first recycling project in 1993 with the Cash for Cans scheme where we encouraged people to recycle aluminium drinks cans by providing accessible collection points at locations such as supermarkets where they could be exchanged for cash. This soon spread across Northern Ireland with many youth and community groups and, business and individuals participating in the scheme. Between 1993 and 1999 over 6 million cans were collected each year.
With changes in legislation and a realisation that we need to be more environmentally aware, councils were looking for ways to get more of their residents recycling. In 2001 we set up a pilot kerbside recycling programme in partnership with Belfast City Council, Ards Borough Council and Castlereagh Borough Council. We provided kerbside boxes to 8000 households to collect paper, glass bottles and jars, food and drinks cans, plastic bottles, foil, textiles and old hand tools. Weekly collections were made using electric vehicles.
In 2003 we started collecting recyclables from schools and this service grew to become our commercial service. We stopped providing this service in 2020 as we continued to focus on the provision of household services.
It was during 2004 and 2005 that Bryson Recycling went through a very substantial period of growth, thanks to winning a number of local authority contracts in quick succession. Our number of employees jumped from 30 to over 200 in 12 months and we relocated our operations to Mallusk, as we rolled our kerbside box service out to 180,000 households and built a state of the art MRF to process recyclables collected from a further 250,000 households.