Green-Works is an award winning social enterprise and registered charity dedicated to helping the environment by diverting redundant office and school furniture from landfill by providing reused and remanufactured furniture to small business, charities, schools and community groups whilst providing training and real work experience to the unemployed.
Green500 Approved Supplier
16 May 2009
Green-Works is delighted to have been approved to join the suppliers for Londons Green500 scheme.The Green500 is the premier carbon mentoring service for large organisations based in London. Supported by the Mayor of London, the scheme aims to reduce CO2 emissions by 1.5 million tonnes by 2010 - the equivalent to a saving of around 150 million in energy bills.
The scheme provides members with practical advice and support to reduce their carbon emissions and recognises and rewards members' commitment to excellence in carbon reduction through an annual awards ceremony hosted by the Mayor of London.
Green-Works is looking forward to working with The Green500 and their members to reduce the environmental impact businesses in the Capital have on the World.
http://www.green500.co.uk
Green-Works Facts
Green-Works celebrated its 10th birthday in 2010
We were the first to recognise the scale of the commerical furniutre problem with towards 500,000 tonnes of commercial furniture being dumped in landfill every year by companies
Green-Works has helped over 5,500 charities and organisations providing low cost furniture
We have donated over 70 jam packed containers of valauable educational and office furniture across the developing world
Our volunteers programme has save the state over £500K in social benefit
We have 5 proceesing centres across the UK which combined offer over 100,000 sq ft of capacity to deal with unwanted items
Green-Works was awarded the Queen's Award for Enterprise - Sustainable Development 2008
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