GreenWorks is dedicated to helping the environment by diverting large quantities of redundant office and educational furniture from landfill with the prime aim of ‘re-use’. As part of the London Re-use Network which is made up of local charities and not for profit organizations that work together to deliver reuse and repair services, GreenWorks collects from very large office blocks to single office suites and provides second hand quality re-use furniture to charities, community and educational groups and small business via the network.
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Clerkenwell Design Week
11 May 2010
Colin Crooks, Green-Works CEO will be hosting 2 presentations on Tuesday 25 May at Clerkenwell Design Week, covering aspects of sustainability and re-use of furniture.Clerkenwell Design Week is a three-day annual festival celebrating London’s creative heart. This festival will offer exclusive product launches from some of the worlds leading design brands as well as exciting seminars, workshops, art installations and music. It’s the ideal chance for creatives to network in a relaxed yet stimulating environment. It will inspire, educate and entertain!
Designing in Sustainability
Tuesday 11am - 1pm Eurotek 147-149 Farringdon Road London EC1R 3HN
There is an increasing amount of discussion about the carbon content of manufactured items but what is still often ignored is the enormous material and social cost associated with extracting raw materials and developing them in to manufactured products.
Colin Crooks CEO of Green-Works will discuss the impacts of extracting or logging the raw material that are essential to creating new furniture.
His presentation will cover why accredited supply chains are so important in terms of protecting the environment and in protecting the livelihoods of vulnerable communities. Moreover he will show how good design makes a significant difference to sustainability by potentially reducing the amount of material required both ion the short and long terms.
The Third World: The Realities of Re-use
Tuesday 3pm - 4pm Triumph 16 St Johns Street Clerkenwell, London, EC1M 4NT
Re-use is becoming more and more important in the waste disposal route. It can massively help all sorts of organisations especially those in developing world.
Colin Crooks will talk about Green-Works efforts to divert unwated furniture to Sierra Leone where it is having a massive impact on day-to-day lives of local people; especially the benefits of cabinets and books.
To register for free entry visit clerekenwelldesignweek.com
Green-Works Facts
GreenWorks 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
GreenWorks 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 4 processing centres across the UK which combined offer over 100,000 sq ft of capacity to deal with unwanted items
GreenWorks was awarded the Queen's Award for Enterprise - Sustainable Development 2008
GreenWorks is a trading name of London Re-use Limited which is a wholly owned subsidiary of LCRN
(London Community Resource Network)
Charity Number 1118616
Registered Company 07114380