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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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Green-Works celebrates its 10th Birthday

17 June 2010

Yes, we are 10 years old this month. No, it hasnt always been easy but reuse and changing peoples disposal habits has never been easy.

Over the past 10 years we have saved 55,000 tonnes of carbon by our customers not purchasing new office furniture but going the green reuse route. We have helped over 800 young people into jobs. We have collected several prestigious awards along the way - most notibly the Qeens Award in 2008 and the Social Enterprise mark in 2010.

On the 17th June we had our franchisees and partners together for a small party to celebrate this landmark acheivement. We even baked a Green-Works cake and teamed up with the renound Ace Cafe for an environmental exhibition on the same day where world beating companies put on show their latest green products.

A fantastic day was had by all but there might have been just a few pain killers used the next day - but party we did!

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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