Composting

Bradford Organics Collection Scheme (BOCS)

Unit 13 Carlisle Business Centre
60 Carlisle Road
Bradford
Yest Yorkshire
BD8 8BD
www.bcep.org.uk

Leeds Organic Growers

47 Queenswood Drive
Headingley
Leeds
West Yorkshire
LS6 3NG
Provides a sustainable household green garden waste kerbside collection service for Kirkstall and Weetwood. Compost sieved, graded and bagged for sale to scheme members and the general public.

Ponderosa Rural Therapeutic Centre

off Smithies Lane
Heckmondwike
West Yorkshire
WF16 0PN
www.ponderosa-centre.org

Provides employment opportunities, develops horticultural, agricultural and social skills and provides great therapeutic value to all its visitors. Activities include cardboard recycling, worm beds and plastics recycling.

Reclaimed Materials

 

Adventurous Play Experience (APE)

BCEP
Unit 13
Carlisle Business Centre
60 Carlisle Rd
Bradford
BD8 8BD
www.bcep.org.uk

Reuses waste from local businesses for play with children. Offers play sessions for groups who work with children using recycled resources for free. See website for more details.

Education & awareness

Bracken Hall Countryside Centre

Glen Road
Baildon
West Yorkshire
BD17 5EA
Promotes environmental issues through education and awareness

Bradford Community Environment Project (BCEP)

Unit 13
Carlisle Business Centre
60 Carlisle Road
Bradford
West Yorkshire
BD8 8BD
www.bcep.org.uk

Works with communities in Bradford to make sustainable environmental improvements and raise environmental awareness. Working to establish a composting social enterprise.

Bradford Environmental Action Trust (BEAT)

198a Keighley Road
Frizinghall
Bradford
BD9 4JZ
www.beat.org.uk

Coordinates Bradford Waste Forum; runs the Pennine Waste Exchange; provides support and advice to local waste groups and contributes to local policy and plans.

BTCV Leeds

Hollybush Conservation Centre
Broad Lane
Kirkstall
Leeds
West Yorkshire
LS5 3BP
General environmental awareness. Volunteer groups available for work on practical projects (e.g. compost bin areas etc).

BTCV Sort-it

Skelton Grange Environment Centre
Skelton Grange Road
Leeds
West Yorkshire
LS10 1RS
Working in primary schools across Leeds to raise awareness of 3Rs and increase the amount of waste being recycled in Leeds.

Council for Mosques

6 Claremont
Bradford
West Yorkshire
BD7 1BQ
Education and local environmental quality action.

Green Business Network

5 Town Hall St
Sowerby Bridge
West Yorkshire
HX6 2QD
Supports and sets up social enterprises dealing with various wastes including plastics, cardboard and green waste from households and businesses.

Groundwork Wakefield

18 Ferrybridge Road
Castleford
West Yorkshire
WF10 4JJ

Education work

Groundwork Leeds

Environment & Business Centre
Merlyn Rees Ave
Morley
Leeds
West Yorkshire
LS27 9SL
Involved with various waste education projects in Leeds and across the region, often in partnership with other organisations.

Leeds Play Network

1 St Peters House
The Calls
Kirkgate
Leeds
West Yorkshire
LS2 7DJ
www.leedsplaynetwork.org.uk

Waste awareness through creative play

Meanwood Valley Urban Farm

Sugarwell Road
Meanwood
Leeds
West Yorkshire
LS7 2QG
www.wwf-leeds.org.uk/FarmHome

City Farm providing a range of educational and learning opportunities to the community including recycling facilities. Market garden holds Soil Association symbol.

Royds Community Association

Sunnybank House
506 Huddersfield Road
Wyke
Bradford
West Yorkshire
BD12 8AD
www.royds.org.uk

Education on waste for local residents.

Urban Mines Ltd

The Cobbett Centre
Village Street
Norwood Green
Halifax
West Yorkshire
HX3 8QG
www.urbanmines.org.uk

Provides practical, sustainable and viable methods of managing the waste stream through advice, research and social enterprise development.

Alternative Technology Centre

Hebble End Mill
Hebden Bridge
HX7 6HJ
www.alternativetechnology.org.uk

Furniture & Electricals

Airedale Appliance Recycling

The Active Centre
Stansfield Road
Airedale
Castleford
West Yorkshire
WF10 3AU
Unwanted washers and cookers collected from local residents, refurbished to a very high standard and sold to the general public at discounted prices. Repairs service for all makes.

CHAS Housing Aid

Sedgfield Terrace
Bradford
BD1 2RU 
Ruth Batty
www.chasbradford.btik.com

Handles furniture, white goods and general household items for charity shops

Emmaus Leeds

St Mary’s Street
Burmantofts
Leeds
West Yorkshire
LS9 7DP
www.emmausleeds-friends.com

Sells quality used furniture, bikes, books, music and bric-a-brac. On site there is also a café, meeting room and IT suite to hire, and car parking.

Good Neighbour Project

13/14 The Parade, Off Broadstone Way
Holmewood Rd
Bradford
West Yorkshire
BD4 9HN
Furniture collection and reuse

Keighley Furniture Project

Springfield Mills
Oakworth Road
Keighley
West Yorkshire
BD21 1SL
Promotes, supports and develops voluntary and community action in response to local needs – collection & reuse of furniture; white goods reuse; training.

Kirklees Community Recycling Group

Unit 5, Providence Works
9 Rouse Mill Lane
Batley
West Yorkshire
WF17 5QB
www.nccuk.org.uk

Furniture collection and reuse.

Leeds & Moortown Furniture Store Ltd

46 Burley Street
Leeds
West Yorkshire
LS3 1LB
www.leedsandmoortown.org.uk
Furniture collection and reuse.

Thorpe Edge Furniture Project

18 Rockwell Lane
Bradford
West Yorkshire
BD10 9HT
Furniture collection and reuse; also take household appliances.

Ozanam Project

St Maries Community Centre
Clarence St
Halifax
West Yorkshire
Furniture collection and reuse.

Poverty Aid UK

165 Cardigan Road
Leeds
West Yorkshire
LS6 1QL
Furniture collection and reuse.

SLATE

Moor End
Tulip Street
Hunslet
Leeds
West Yorkshire
LS10 2BQ
www.slateleeds.co.uk
Furniture collection and reuse.

St Judes Furniture Store

Marshall Street
Holbeck
Leeds
West Yorkshire
LS11 9EH
www.stjudes-svp.org.uk
Collects and redistributes donated furniture & white goods for those in need in the community. Provides worthwhile work opportunities for volunteers and those on work training schemes.

Windhill Furniture Store

Windhill Community Furniture Store
7 Crag Road
Windhill
Bradford
West Yorkshire
BD18 2JR
www.windhillfurniturestore.co.uk 
Reduces the amount of furniture that goes to landfill and provides low cost, good quality furniture for people on low incomes.

Colt Enterprises

Project Colt Mill
Bridgefield Mills Elland Bridge
Elland
HX5 0SG
www.projectcolt.org.uk

IT

Airedale Computer Recycling

The Active Centre
Stansfield Road
Airedale
Castleford
West Yorkshire
WF10 3UA
www.airedalecomputers.com
IT equipment collected from businesses, councils and households. Re-education of long term unemployed. Computers donated to charities, voluntary groups, children’s groups, etc. Sell highly discounted computers to the general public.

Remploy Ltd

Manor Mill Lane
Millshaw
Leeds
LS11 8DF
www.remploy.co.uk
Domestic appliance repair, reuse and recycling. Training and employment for people with learning disabilities.

Recycling

Aire Valley Recycling

124 Dockfield Road
Shipley
Bradford
West Yorkshire
BD17 7AR
www.airevalleyrecycling.co.uk
A kerbside recycling service for 15,000 and 25,000 respectively households in Keighley and the Worth Valley. Materials collected are paper, glass, cans, textiles and plastic bottles.

Bradford Waste Chasers Ltd.

The Old Iron Mill
Lessarna Court
Bowling Back Lane
Bradford
West Yorkshire
BD4 8ST
www.wastechasers.co.uk
Collects and sorts office paper, cans and cardboard from Bradford and Leeds businesses for recycling; also collects trade items for reuse.

EKKO at the Alternative Technology Centre

Hebble End Mill
Hebden Bridge
West Yorkshire
HX7 6HJ
www.alternativetechnology.org.uk/ekko

Micro-industry collecting, reprocessing & re-manufacturing plastics. Education work in the local community.

Kerbside Calderdale

Unit 11A, Station Road Industrial Estate
Station Road
Luddendenfoot
Halifax
West Yorkshire
HX2 6AD
www.kerbside.org.uk

Kerbside recycling from businesses, schools and 25,000 households in the Calder Valley.

Straight plc

31 Eastgate
Leeds
LS2 7LY
www.straight.co.uk

Nappies

Bradford Real Nappy Project

140 - 148 Manningham Lane
Bradford
West Yorkshire
BD8 7JL
www.beat.org.uk/nappy.htm

Provides advice and support to local parents on use of non-disposable nappies; local nappy laundering service.

Change Project

Unit 8, Victoria Works
Victoria RoadHebden Bridge
West Yorkshire
HX7 8LN
Nappy laundering service for Calder Valley parents.

The Nappy Train

140-148 Manningham Lane
Bradford
West Yorkshire
BD8 7JL
www.nappytrain.co.uk

Nappy laundering service for Calder Valley parents.

Paint

Community RePaint Bradford

39 Adelaide Street
Bradford,
BD5 0EA
Paint from Bradford households collected, checked, re-mixed and passed on for reuse by local groups.

Seagulls Re-use Limited

Units 3&4, Aire Place Mills
103 Kirkstall Road
Leeds
West Yorkshire
LS3 1JL
www.seagullsre-use.com

Community RePaint service for Leeds; unwanted paint is collected from household waste sorting sites and businesses for checking, mixing and reuse by local community groups.

Scrapstore

Pennine Magpie

Unit 4A, Calderdale Business Park
Club Lane
Halifax
West Yorkshire
HX2 8DB
Scrapstore and reuse cardboard for animal bedding.

Replay

Units 2-4 Enterprise Way, off Middleton Road
Belle Isle
Leeds
West Yorkshire
LS10 3DZ
www.leedsplaynetwork.org.uk

A project of Leeds Play Network. Takes unwanted materials donated from business to reuse as inexpensive creative play resources for children

Scrap Creative Re-Use

Units 3&4
103 Kirkstall Road
Leeds
West Yorkshire
LS3 1JL
www.scrapstuff.co.uk

A mobile community scrap service promoting reuse through creative arts. Workshops and accredited training delivered around the environment and arts.(e.g. recycled fashion, recycled jewellery, kite making, trashy textiles, scrap sculpture).

Scrap Magic!

BCEP
Unit 13
Carlisle Business Centre
60 Carlisle Rd
Bradford
BD8 8BD
www.bcep.org.uk

Reuses waste from local businesses for arts, craft and play. Low cost and available for all to access. See website for opening times and locations.

Wood

Woodville Work Activity Centre

Woodville Road
Keighley
West Yorkshire
BD20 6JA
Wood re-use & recycling project.

Miscellaneous

Home-Start Kirklees

New 2 U
87 Coule Royd
Dalton,
Huddersfield
West Yorkshire
HD5 9RN
www.homestart-kirklees.org.uk

Nursery equipment and children’s clothing scheme which covers the whole of Kirklees for families on low incomes, teenage parents, health agencies, social workers, foster parents and children’s centres.

WhyWaste at BEAT

140-148 Manningham Lane
Bradford,
West Yorkshire
BD8 7JL
www.whywaste.org.uk

Bicycles

Future Cycling

Turner Lane
Addingham
LS29 0LJ

Crank It Up

PO Box 545
Bradford
BD6 1SJ
www.crank-it-up.org.uk