The following links provide more information on waste & recycling. Note that Manchester Friends of the Earth does not necessarily endorse either the sources included in this list or the information found therein.
Local Links
Manchester
City Council - An A to Z of recycling, with advice on how and
where to recycle and dispose of almost anything you can think of!
Manchester
Freecycle Network - If you're about to throw something away,
why not give it away instead? This website allows you to post details
of the item and see if anyone else can make use of it.
Copperdale
Trust - A trust that will come and collect anything you don't want
(from sofas to clothes) and give it away to people who need it. They're
all self funded volunteers (they even pay for van maintenance
and petrol themselves) and don't have a website as they can't afford
one but their phone number is:
0161 437 1363.
EMERGE
Recycling - Community recycling organisation based in Manchester,
providing recycling services for businesses.
Fairfield
Materials Management - A social enterprise based on the New Smithfield
market site in East Manchester, Fairfield has established the UK’s
first sustainable waste management system to operate on a wholesale
market, diverting 6,500 tonnes of organic market waste material away
from landfill by converting it into sustainable, quality compost.
CHAIN -
The Cheshire Anti-Incinerator Network, campaigning against incinerators
in Cheshire.
RAIN -
Residents Against Incineration, fighting against a huge new incinerator
at Ince Marshes in Cheshire.
Waste Minimisation
Waste
Watch - Non-profit organisation working to protect the environment
by advocating waste reduction, re-use and recycling of materials.
Community
Recycling Network - The umbrella organisation for over 200 community-based
waste management projects and businesses, with activities ranging
from kerbside collections, the collection of commercial waste paper,
waste reduction schemes to community composting.
Recycling - How to recycle
Recycle
Now - website regarding recycling and the current nationwide
recycling advertising campaign.
Waste
Connect - Database of every recycling facility in the country.
Type in your postcode to find your nearest recycling point for all
kinds of household waste.
Waste
Watch - Information about what and where you can recycle. Fact
sheets on materials that can be tricky to find facilities for like
plastics and batteries.
Recycle
More - How to increase recycling rates in your home, school or
business. Information on recycling labels and what they really mean.
Run by Valpak, to help businesses comply with the Waste Strategy
and packaging waste regulations.
Sort-it -
Greater Manchester recycling information.
Envirowise -
a Government-funded programme dedicated to putting the sustainable
use of resources at the heart of the UK business practice.
Steel
Can Recycling Information Bureau
Alcan -
Aluminium Can Recycling
Alupro -
The UK Aluminium Packaging Recycling Organisation is responsible for
encouraging and developing recycling collection initiatives, for consumer
education, and for representing the aluminium packaging industry to
government.
Oxfam -
Donate your old mobile phone to Oxfam, they will recycle it and use
the money raised to support their work with people all over the world.
ActionAid -
Mobile phone, toner & inkjet cartridge collection scheme, all profits
go to the charity.
Donate
a PC - Give your old hardware to UK charities, not-for-profit
organisations and educational establishments.
Recycling - General Interest
WRAP -
the Waste and Resources Action Programme.
Waste
Online - website managed by Waste Watch, information on recycling
issues
Friends
of the Earth - News on Friends of the Earth's national waste
campaign.
Mailing
Preference Service - register to reduce your junk mail
Buying Recycled Products
UK
recycled products guide tells you where you can buy recycled
goods of all kinds. Tel: 0870 243 0136
Natural
Collection - Catalogue with a wide range of environmentally-friendly
and recycled products. Friends of the Earth receive a donation from
sales. Order line: 0870 331 3333
GreenChoices -
Well-researched information for those wishing to make green choices
with their purchasing power. Includes many recycled products for home
and office.
Remarkable -
Supply innovative products made from recycled materials including The
Remarkable recycled pencil, made from one recycled vending cup, and
mouse amts made from recycled tyres.
Save
A Cup Recycling Company - Collects vending cups nation-wide for
recycling and turns them into products to sell including rulers,
coasters, business card holders and key rings.
Recoup -
Supply products made from recycled plastics.
The
Green Shop - sells hundreds of products for a sustainable future.
Green
Glass - Wine glasses made from recycled bottles.
Cutouts -
Supply innovative and useful products manufactured from recycled materials
such as printed circuit boards, juice cartons and plastic bags.
Ecotopia -
an online green shop offering environmental products.
The
Green Stationery Company - The UK's premier recycled paper and
green office products supplier.
Energywise
Recycled Glass - sell glass products made from recycled wine
bottles and windows.