Redundancy was the catalyst for a businesswoman to open a recycling plant in her home town of Manchester. Maxine Brown launched MB Recycling in 2013 from her spare bedroom and, four years later, it is turning over ?600,000. She plans to expand current recycling services during the next three years. "In the early days of the business, I quickly discovered the same message was going around: either send the waste to landfill or export it to China. Both of these options seemed to go against the grain, environmentally," she says. "I had always thought about setting up a recycling plant to encourage firms to keep everything in the UK instead of exporting, which has the bonus of reducing our carbon footprint."
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