Magpie Recycling
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Magpie Recycling is a worker cooperative
based in Brighton
, England
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Magpie Recycling was founded in 1990 at the Hanover Community Centre and became a co-operative Limited Company
in 1992. It currently has 31 employees and an annual turnover in excess of £500,000.
Worker cooperative
A worker cooperative is a cooperative owned and democratically managed by its worker-owners. This control may be exercised in a number of ways. A cooperative enterprise may mean a firm where every worker-owner participates in decision making in a democratic fashion, or it may refer to one in which...
based in Brighton
Brighton
Brighton is the major part of the city of Brighton and Hove in East Sussex, England on the south coast of Great Britain...
, England
England
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...
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Magpie Recycling was founded in 1990 at the Hanover Community Centre and became a co-operative Limited Company
Limited company
A limited company is a company in which the liability of the members or subscribers of the company is limited to what they have invested or guaranteed to the company. Limited companies may be limited by shares or by guarantee. And the former of these, a limited company limited by shares, may be...
in 1992. It currently has 31 employees and an annual turnover in excess of £500,000.