About Green-Works

About Us

Green-Works is an award-winning registered charity and social enterprise dedicated to radically changing the way society thinks about waste.

Our aim is to turn redundant office furniture into an asset and a resource. Using the 4 R's we aim to, Reduce, Re-use Remanufacture or Recycle all unwanted office furniture, diverting it from landfill.

Green-Works not only removes your furniture, we also find the best use for it, offering the best quality items to charities, community organisations, small businesses and for domestic use across the country at a substantial discount, while donating around the World, currently working to rebuild communities across the developing World.

Working with physically and socially disadvantaged people in depots throughout the UK helps to achieve the twin goals of zero waste and support in the community.

So if you're in need of quality second hand furniture or you need to remove some...Green-Works can find a solution to meet all your needs. Want to find out more?

Green Works was founded in 2000 by Colin Crooks, the CEO, with minimum resource and has now grown into a £2m charity with 4 franchises across the UK, providing great benefits to people and the environment around the world.

Current situation – The Facts!

  • Around 350 – 400,000 tonnes of furniture is sent to landfill every year in the UK, and this figure has gone up over the last few years as offices churn more often and as furniture has changed with the changes in the workplace
  • An area of forest nearly the size of the UK is destroyed each year
  • Up to 50% of total forest cover has now been destroyed by human activity
  • To manufacture just one 70kg desk requires 530kgs of extracted material
  • Reusing office furniture saves around ¾ the amount of carbon produced to create a new item.


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