GRG Sponsor Our Only World Charity Single
Our Only World Charity Single – click to watch the music video on YouTube Wednesday 17th May 2023 marks the launch of Our Only World, a charity single written for children and performed by children from schools in Cornwall, UK and Guernsey. The song highlights the...
First Agreements Signed For The Cayman Islands ISWMS
ISWMS Pre-Construction Agreements – Click to see Press Conference Video. Tuesday 13th October 2020 marked the signing of Pre-Construction Agreements for Integrated Solid Waste Management System in the Cayman Islands. The Agreements will allow various works to be done...
GRG Acquires Chloros Environmental
GRG has acquired Chloros Environmental, one of the UK’s fastest growing hazardous waste companies. Chloros provides services for hazardous waste, emergency hazardous waste removal, industrial cleaning, site clearance, total waste management, and other consultancy...
Phase 4 Update: Waste and Recycling Services
Following on from the States of Guernsey’s announcement that the island will be entering Phase 4 of the lockdown, we are pleased to inform you that from Monday 1st June Customers will no longer need to book a time slot when delivering waste materials to any of our...
Covid 19 Customer Update: Waste & Recycling Services 29.4.2020
We would like to thank all our Customers for their understanding and patience over the course of this past week: all Site operations are running smoothly and we have been able to avoid queuing, and maintain social distancing. So we have some good news: from Monday 4th May...
Covid 19 Update: Customer Guidance for Waste and Recycling Services 23.4.2020
From Monday 27th April 2020, GRG Companies including Island Waste, Mayside Recycling, Guernsey Recycling Scrap Metal Yard, and Galaxy CI, will be offering recycling services. Please contact us on numbers below to request a skip, bag or bin exchange; or to book a time slot...
Team GRG sign up to Everest Challenge
The Guernsey Recycling Group and Galaxy CI have signed up for the Everest Challenge; raising money for the Sarah Groves Foundation and Guernsey Mind. The Everest Challenge will be taking place throughout January 2020. Participants follow a set route: starting at the bottom...
Island Waste Bulwer Avenue Officially Open
Island Waste is delighted to announce the opening of a new Waste Segregation Facility on Bulwer Avenue, St. Sampson’s. The new Site was formally commissioned on Monday by the Office of Environmental Health and Pollution Regulation, Guernsey Fire and Rescue Service,...
World Clean Up and Big Beach Clean Weekend
The Guernsey Recycling Group [GRG] and Galaxy CI recently supported the World Clean Up effort and the Big Beach Clean Weekend in Guernsey, which saw volunteers from La Societe Guernesiaise, Pick it Up Guernsey, Plastic Free Guernsey and the Alderney Wildlife Trust lead a...
Galaxy Expands IT Data Destruction and Recycling Services
Galaxy CI is delighted to announce some exciting new changes happening this Autumn, with enhanced skills and services being offered to our customers across our IT Data Destruction and Recycling Services. With information security and Data Protection now an absolute priority...
#WorldCleanUp
We are delighted to be supporting the #WorldCleanUp effort in Guernsey, with Galaxy CI. Local environmental charities – including Pick it Up Guernsey, La Societe Guernesiaise, Plastic Free Guernsey, Fairtrade Guernsey and the Alderney Wildlife Trust – are...
GRG Creates A Nationwide UK Hazardous & Liquid Waste Group with the Acquisition of Greenway Environmental
GRG is delighted to announce the acquisition of UK based Greenway Environmental, along with freehold land in Liverpool (North West) and Hinckley (Midlands) respectively where the business operates Waste Transfer Stations. Greenway Environmental is a market leader in the...
Guernsey College Recruitment Day
GRG attended the Guernsey College of Further Education’s Recruitment Day on Friday 7th June; to showcase the variety of career pathways in Waste Management and Recycling industries. We are taking steps to inspire the next generation, who will continue to find...
World No Tobacco Day
On Friday 31st May, GRG volunteers collected approximately 4,500 cigarette butts from areas around the Bridge, St Sampson’s, Guernsey. The event was organised by Pick it Up Guernsey, as part of World No Tobacco Day. In total, volunteers collected approximately 75,000...
Be in Your Mate’s Corner
This week, we welcomed the Guernsey Employment Trust (GET) and Guernsey Mind to meet our Site Directors and Managers; and the two charities delivered training around disability and inclusion; and well being in the workplace. After signing up to the GET Employment Charter,...
GRG joins the Cigarette Busters
GRG joined a group of volunteers in picking up cigarette ends in St Peter Port on Monday 4th March. The event was organised by Andrew Munro, from Pick it Up Guernsey. The volunteers aimed to collect 2,500 cigarette ends from town over the lunch hour; each person walking a...
GRG signs up to GET Employment Charter
GRG are excited to have signed up to the Guernsey Employment Trust (GET) Employment Charter, and look forwards to welcoming candidates to its recycling sites. The Group is working closely with GET and MIND to deliver Mental Health and Disability Awareness Training across...
Big Channel Islands Beach Clean Weekend
GRG supported the Big Channel Islands Beach Clean in Guernsey on Saturday 12th January; collecting litter form Rousse, Belle Greve and Portelet. 48 volunteers joined in and collected 356 kg of litter including rope, fishing line, plastic bottles, food packaging, styrofoam,...
Plastics and tyres amongst Portelet Beach Clean litter
GRG and La Societe Guernesias volunteers found a variety of litter along the Portelet Beach coastline, at the first of this year’s Beach Cleans. GRG provided gloves, recycling bags and litter pickers to approximately 30 volunteers on Saturday 3rd March. 35 kg of...
GRG support La Societe Guernesias Island Beach Cleans
The Guernsey Recycling Group are supporting La Societe Guernesias in a series of beach cleans across the island. The two organisations are working together to raise awareness about the dangers of marine plastics; and promote environmental conservation. All litter collected...
GRG quiz College of FE Business Students in Dragon’s Den
Matt Cox (GRG Operations Director) and Fran Browning (GRG ISO and Projects Officer) enjoyed being Dragons for a day; and meeting the BTEC Level 3 Diploma Business students at the Guernsey College of Further Education who took part in a Dragons’ Den challenge earlier...
Galaxy achieve Keep Guernsey Green Revalidation Award
Galaxy Computers have achieved the Keep Guernsey Green Revalidation Award, which was recently presented to General Manager Ricky Domaille by Deputy Mark Dorey. The company have successfully maintained the award, since it was first presented to them in 2012. The award...
GRG’s Consortium Announced as Preferred Bidder for the Cayman Waste Tender
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Island Recycling Launches its Tyre Shredding Operations for the Cayman Island Government
Island Recycling is delighted to announce it has officially started its tyre shredding service for the Cayman Islands Government. The processing of approx 500,000 tyres on the George Town landfill is anticipated to last for just under one year, with all recycled tyre product...
Galaxy Crowned with Business Innovation Award for 2016
Galaxy has been recognised by the business community of Guernsey in the 2016 Awards for Achievement. Following a pitch to a panel of business experts to demonstrate the company’s ‘Innovation’ credentials, Galaxy was shortlisted down to three companies...
Island Recycling Sign Agreement with Cayman Government to Recycle Waste Tyres
PRESS RELEASE FROM GIS MARKETING & COMMUNICATIONS In an effort to dispose of the large amount of waste tyres that have accumulated at the George Town Landfill, the Ministry of Health and successful contractors met on Monday, 15 August 2016 to sign the official waste...
GRG Features in Business Brief Guernsey
GRG recently featured in the Guernsey magazine Business Brief for an article about Guernsey’s waste problem and how it has been solved through public and private solutions. http://www.briefci.com/LatestEdition
Galaxy Re-Awarded the “Keep Guernsey Green Award”
Galaxy has been re-awarded the “Keep Guernsey Green” Award. The award recognises the company’s commitment to helping Guernsey maintain a healthy, clean environment by operating to best practice in waste management and energy conservation. This was awarded...
Galaxy Computer Brokers and GRG Join Forces
Galaxy Computer Brokers, the only IT specialist recycling company based in the Channel Islands, is pleased to announce a merger with the Guernsey Recycling Group (GRG). GRG is a Guernsey based group that specialises in the recycling and recovery of waste. GRG recycles waste...