National Organisations
Alliance for Beverage Cartons and the Environment (ACE)
Churcham House, 1 Bridgeman Road, Teddington, Middlesex TW11 9AJ
info@drinkscartons.com
www.drinkscartons.com
Alupro
1 Brockhill Court, Brockhill Lane, Redditch, B97 6RB
www.alupro.org.uk
Recycling aluminium packaging in the UK
Association of Charity Shops
Central House, 14 Upper Woburn Place, London, WC1H 0AE
mail@charityshops.org.uk
www.charityshops.org.uk
Dedicated to supporting charities who run shops as part of their fundraising activities
Chartered Institute of Wastes Management
9 Saxon Court, St Peter’s Gardens, Marefair, Northampton, NN1 1SX
technical@ciwm.co.uk
www.ciwm.co.uk
Leading professional body for waste and resource management.
Communicycle
communicycle@communicycle.com
www.communicycle.com
Aims to connect people who want to pass on unwanted items with those who might find them useful, support communities, reduce waste of useable items going to landfill, encourage creative use of items.
Community Composting Network,
67 Alexandra Road, Sheffield, S2 3EE
info@communitycompost.org
www.communitycompost.org
Supports and promotes the community management and use of waste bio-degradable resources. It is a member’s organisation, self-managed by an elected committee of members
Composting Association
Avon House, Tithe Barn Road, Wellingborough, Northants NN8 1DH
www.compost-uk.org.uk
Collects and spreads information for the trade, and works to set standards. Provides a united voice in UK, promoting benefits of composting to government and public. Operates certification schemes for compost and compostable packaging.
Community Recycling Network UK (CRN)
www.crn.org.uk
Umbrella membership organisation for UK community-based recycling and waste management organisations and businesses. Promotes community-based sustainable waste management as a practical and effective way of tackling UK’s growing waste problem.
Community Re>Paint
Resource Futures, 74 Kirkgate, Leeds LS2 7DJ
Supports and develops new and existing community repaint schemes
Department for Food and Rural Affairs
Customer Contact Unit,Eastbury House,30-34 Albert Embankment,London,SE1 7TL
www.defra.gov.uk
Defra works for the essentials of life - food, air, land, water, people, animals and plants. Our remit is the pursuit of sustainable development - weaving together economic, social and environmental concerns.
Emmaus UK Office
48 Kingston Street, Cambridge, CB1 2NU
www.emmaus.org.uk
Emmaus Communities offer homeless men and women a home, work and the chance to rebuild their self-respect in a supportive, community environment.
English Nature
Northminster House, Peterborough, PE1 1UA
www.english-nature.org.uk
Works in partnership to conserve and enhance our landscapes and natural environment, to promote countryside access and recreation as well as public well-being, now and for future generations.
Environment Council
212 High Holborn, LONDON WC1V 7BF
www.the-environment-council.org.uk
Independent charity encouraging more environment-friendly and sustainable business practice. Organises events to build relationships and find practical solutions. Training in business, including consensus building.
Envirowise
0800 585794
www.envirowise.gov.uk
Government programme to minimise waste. Offers free, independent advice, information to help small and medium size businesses on practical ways to minimise waste, introduce sustainability into the workplace, convert turnover into profit, and ensure compliance with environmental legislation.
Freecycle
www.freecycle.org
Worldwide grassroots movement of local groups of people giving and receiving things free in their own towns. Provides individuals and non-profits an electronic forum to “recycle” unwanted items.
Furniture Re-use Network (FRN)
48-54 West Street, St Phillips, Bristol, BS2 0BL
www.frn.org.uk
Promotes the reuse of unwanted furniture, electrical appliances and household effects for the alleviation of need, hardship, distress and poverty.
Green Choices
PO Box 31617, London SW2 4FF
www.greenchoices.org/recycling.html
Free, independent, not-for-profit web guide to greener living. It has no products to sell or promote, only ideas and information to help people make greener choices in their day-to-day lives.
Henry Doubleday Research Association
Ryton Organic Gardens, Coventry, Warwickshire, CV8 3LG
www.hdra.org.uk
Dedicated to researching, improving and promoting organic gardening, farming, food, and commercial organic growing, and offering practical advice. Carries out scientific research into horticultural techniques that do not rely on chemicals, and regularly helps media, industry and statutory bodies.
Local Authority Recycling Advisory Committee (LARAC)
www.larac.org.uk
LARAC is the leading national local authority organisation promoting waste reduction and recycling.
National Association of Councils for Voluntary Service
The Tower,2 Furnival Square,Sheffield,S1 4QL
www.nacvs.org.uk
National Association of Councils for Voluntary Service helps to promote voluntary and community action by supporting our member CVS and by acting as a national voice for the local voluntary and community sector.
Real Nappy Association
Volunteering England
Regents Wharf, 8 All Saints Street, London NR1 9RL
www.volunteeringengland.org
National advisory agency on volunteering and community involvement
Waste and Resources Action Programme (WRAP)
The Old Academy, 21 Horse Fair, Banbury, Oxon, OX16 0AH
www.wrap.org.uk
WRAP has a wide remit of sustainable waste programmes including creating markets for recycled resources.
Wastewatch
Waste Watch,56-64 Leonard Street,
London EC2A 4LT
www.wastewatch.org.uk
The leading UK waste educational charity promoting sustainable resource use. Waste Watch campaigns through policy development for all areas of society to reduce, reuse and recycle whilst working on changing attitudes and behaviour through projects and services.
Women’s Environmental Network
PO Box 30626 London E1 1TZ
www.wen.org.uk
Campaign Organisation representing women and campaigns that link women, environment and health