The new Wembley warehouse replaces a smaller facility in Park Royal and will allow Green-Works to expand its work recycling high quality office furniture to charities, schools, community groups and small businesses.
A scheme to re-engineer chipboard and fibreboard panels into children’s furniture will be included in the new warehouse facilities which are expected to have a turnover of some 300 tonnes of furniture a month once they are fully operational.
The new warehouse will create 14 new jobs and is one of the last to win financial support from London Remade’s capital grants programme which supports innovative projects that expand the market for recycling in the capital.
Niche service
Chief executive Daniel Silverstone said: “Green-Works provides excellent niche service collecting unwanted office furniture and making sustainable purchasing accessible to all. This new site will expand this further and demonstrates the possibilities of recycling.”
Green-Works chief executive Colin Crooks said: “London Remade has been extremely helpful and with its support we have been able to significantly expand our in-house capacity to collect furniture.
“Even more excitingly London Remade is supporting a completely new stage in our development where we will start to manufacture products from the waste we collect. This will help us serve even more community groups and enable them to have furniture they could not ordinarily afford.”
The environmental award-winning Green-Works attracts supports from leading corporations including the Royal Bank of Scotland, Lloyds, BP, HSBC, Marks and Spencer and PricewaterhouseCoopers.
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It also has furniture warehouse in Silvertown and Woolwich areas of London and supports a network of recycled furniture outlets in Leicester, Liverpool and East Durham. Mr Crooks was recently named as ‘Ambassador of the Environment’ by the London Mayor Ken Livingstone.
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