Welcome to crn.org.uk home of the Community Recycling Network (CRN) UK.

The CRN UK is the national umbrella organisation for community-based, not-for-profit and co-operative waste management groups which work in reduction, re-use and recycling.

Our aim

The CRN UK is the national voice for community-based recycling and waste reduction. It promotes community-based sustainable waste management as a practical and effective way of tackling the UK's growing waste problem. Waste is a valuable resource that can offer enormous opportunities for regeneration in deprived communities as well as helping build the social economy through providing jobs and training for the long-term unemployed and people with special needs. These successful community level social projects form the third sector of sustainable waste management.