A recycling and waste management business has opened a new facility in West Cumbria.

Recycling Lives has opened a scrap buying and processing facility at Isabella Road, Derwent Howe Industrial Estate in Workington.

The dedicated scrap metal facility with its own weighbridge, has created three jobs with more in the pipeline.

The social business, which uses its commercial operations to sustain a number of charitable programmes, is also expanding its food charity across Cumbria.

The Food Redistribution Centre – which bridges the gap between food suppliers with surplus goods and charities working with vulnerable groups – is opening collection points across the county, already in Cleator Moor and Penrith, for community groups to access quality food and goods.

Recycling Lives has already delivered more than a million meals to communities in its home county Lancashire, since October 2015.

William Fletcher, Recycling Lives managing director, said: “We’re looking forward to working with businesses to deliver best value and service from our new Workington site.

“We’re already integrating within communities across Cumbria to ensure our charitable services make the most impact for people across the region.”

The new scrap metal site adds to Recycling Lives eight others across Lancashire, Greater Manchester, Merseyside, the Midlands and Kent.

The facility, which has brought a previously empty site back into use, is now open to the public and other businesses.

Recycling Lives began expanding its operations into Cumbria after winning a contract with Sellafield Ltd last year to carry and process waste metal from the fuel reprocessing and decommissioning facility.