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.

What are your furniture needs?

What we do and why

The Problem

Around 500,000 tonnes of furniture are 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
• Re-using office furniture saves around ¾ the amount of carbon produced to create a new item.

The Solution - Creating a Valuable Resource

GreenWorks supplies communities nationally with a huge source of quality office furniture - and great value prices. There is a growing need.  With more than 180,000 charities, around 86% have incomes under £100,000! There are also just under 30,000 schools and over 26,000 nurseries & playschools, all of whom have tight budgets. 

GreenWorks has already been responsible for diverting over 60,000 tonnes of furniture from landfill and have helped over 5,000 organisations, from charities to business start ups to nursery schools saving them around £2.5m by buying recycled or remade furniture.