Green-Works goes West
The organisation is opening new outlet.
Every year a staggering quarter of a million tonnes of office furniture is chucked into landfill but all of it could be re-distributed or recycled. A non-profit organisation, Green-Works was set up to help to solve this problem on a national basis, creating valuable employment and training opportunities in the process
The award-winning initiative bridges the gap between large corporates and government bodies who have vast quantities of redundant office furniture and the community. On the one hand, the commercial world is given a viable alternative to landfill and on the other hand literally thousands of schools, charities, community groups and start-up businesses are given the facility to get hold of quality office furniture at very low cost.
Green-Works is getting bigger and better all the time - and that’s great news for the community in West London. To complement a network of six outlets across the UK, Green-Works is opening premises in West London for six months from mid September to the end of February (for the address please contact Claudine Piggott on 0845 230 2 231). Processing 500 tonnes of office furniture per month, this new outlet will have available some of the most popular items.
With the chief executive selected as “London Ambassador for the Environment" by Mayor Ken Livingstone at the London Day Awards, Colin Crooks is fulfilling his dream of protecting the environment on a massive scale to the benefit of the community.
September 19, 2004
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| - Green-Works offers one-stop collection service to support large scale office disposals on a membership basis. The list of members reads like a roll-call of the country’s largest, blue-chip organisations as well as some major governmental bodies including Marks & Spencer, Lloyds of London, Unilever, Barclays, and The Royal Bank of Scotland, The DTI, The British Library, The FCO and The London Fire Service. As part of the Green-Works family, these organisations are able to contribute to their environmental and social agendas. - Green-Works creates employment and training opportunities in deprived areas across the UK to boost local economies. - As at July 2004, nearly 1,500 non-profit organisations have made a cumulative saving of almost £1 million by acquiring our office furniture. - Green-Works has two warehouses in London, is about to open an outlet in West London and has a network of four franchises serving the North East, the South East, the Midlands and the North West, with plans for further expansion. - Office furniture which cannot be re-used is broken down into component parts and donated to art and drama projects for both children and adults. |
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