Waste Aware Products

Recycling Equipment

Apricot Environmental - www.necdistributors.co.uk
NEC Distributors Limited, an Apricot Environmental company, can supply a complete range of new and refurbished compactors, baling presses, composters, containers and other ancillary equipment, providing a complete solution to your food and packaging waste.

Biobags - www.biobags.co.uk
Biobags are suppliers of 100% compostable alternatives to plastic including carrier bags, bin liners and garden waste bags.

Insinkerator UK - www.insinkerator.co.uk
Insinkerator offers kitchen waste bins and food waste disposers. They also sell compactors for compacting packaging items to a quarter of their size.

Mac-Fab Systems - www.macfab.com
Mac-Fab Systems are a Waste Baler Manufacturing Company in Ireland, they distribute across the UK.

Plascan Crusher - www.plascan.com
The Plascan Crusher is a recycling tool designed to crush empty drinks cans and plastic bottles, and is made from recycled plastic.

Plastic Omnium - www.nowrecycle.co.uk
NowRecycle offer a variety of recycling, wheelie, compost and kitchen bins. They can accommodate bulk or individual orders.

RecycleMate - www.t-rec-s.com
RecycleMate is a new, easy and hygienic way to sort and store waste. It takes all types of waste, from food waste to plastic, glass and paper. RecycleMate fits in any kitchen, as a built-in or stand-alone unit in place of a rubbish bin. Slide-out drawers and attachable wheeled buggy make it easy to put recycling out for collection or to take it to a recycling centre.

Reverse Vending Systems - www.reversevending.co.uk
Reverse Vending Systems is a UK distributor and operator of automated machines that utilise advanced technology to identify, sort, collect and process used beverage containers.

Smartsoil - www.smartsoil.co.uk
SmartSoil sells home and community composting machines which can compost all kitchen waste including cooked food and meat products in just a few weeks without fuss or mess, as well as energy efficient fridges and freezers.

Straight Recycling Systems - www.straight.co.uk
Straight plc supplies a range of recycling containers and composters made using recycled materials.

Taylor Wheeled Waste Containers - www.taylor-ch.co.uk
Taylors provide wheeled bins for businesses and organisations in a selection of different sizes and colours.

www.savemoneysavewaste.com - www.savemoneysavewaste.com
Online stockist who sell a variety of environmental products that reduce household and business costs by reducing packaging, lowering utilitie costs and carbon emissions.

Information, Advice and Support

All Things Eco - www.allthingseco.co.uk
The Eco Directory lists 1000's of companies from across the UK that support the environment and sustainable living.

Catalogue of Recycled Products (The) - www.recycledproduct.info
The Catalogue of Recycled Products provides useful, practical objective information about recycled products.

Compost Suppliers Database - www.wrap.org.uk
The WRAP Compost database allows you to search geographically for the nearest producer or wholesaler of whichever type of compost product is required, simply by entering a postcode. The categories of compost products listed include soil improver, mulch, growing media constituent, top dressing and topsoil constituent.

Green Books - www.greenbooks.co.uk
Green Books sells books on recycling, composting and other environmental and cultural issues, most of which are printed on 100% recycled paper.

Green Guide - www.greenguide.co.uk
You can use the Green Guide website to search for organic, natural, ethical and eco-friendly services or products, purchase the Green Guides, subscribe to Pure Living magazine, catch upon on the latest eco news and much more.

Green Shoots - www.greenshoots.info
Green Shoots is a business incubation service which provides help and support for new recycling businesses in the social enterprise sector, starting up in the Tayside and Forth Valley regions.

Hippy Shopper - www.hippyshopper.com
The Hippy Shopper website provides lots of information about ethical consumerism, including links to recycled and other environmentally friendly products.

Material Reuse Companies

Bits and Bobs Scrapstore - www.bitsandbobsscrapstore.org.uk
Bits and Bobs is a social enterprise that aims to create employment for people with disabilities in a recycling business and related environmentally friendly ventures.

Recycling Appeal - www.recyclingappeal.com
The Recycling Appeal collects and recycles used printer cartridges and mobile phones for charity.

Promotion and Packaging

Allwag - www.recycledpromotionalproducts.co.uk
Allwag sells a range of promotional products and clothing made using recycled materials.

Argon Promotional Products - www.argonpromo.co.uk
Argon Promotional Products offer recycled pens, folders, paper products, keyrings and t-shirts plus many more. All made from recycled plastic, tyres and sustainable trees.

Clever Bagger (The) - www.thecleverbaggers.co.uk
The Clever Baggers specialise in manufacturing, printing and selling cotton and canvas bags, tea towels and aprons printed with your logo.

Enviropak Ltd - www.enviropack.org.uk
Enviropack offer ethical, eco-friendly and biodegradable bags made from sustainable plant fibres such as Jute.

Go Green Bags - www.gogreenbags.com
Go Green Bags is a campaign in Fife and the surrounding area to encourage shoppers to carry a recyclable bag.

Go Green Pak - www.gogreenpak.com
Go Green Pak is an eco-friendly carrier bag manufacturer and supplier.

Go Greener Bags - www.gogreenerbags.co.uk
Specialise in printed bags for the retail and promotional trade.

Green Cotton Bags - www.greencottonbag.co.uk
Manufacturer and supplier of eco-friendly, high-quality, hand-made cotton bags. Bags can be printed with promotional graphics in a variety of sizes and styles.

Jute and Cotton Bags - www.jutebag.co.uk
JuteBag provide a wide variety of eco-friendly jute and cotton bags which can be customised with logos and company details.

Recycled Stores - www.recycledstores.co.uk
Recycled Stores offer a selection of products such as recycled stationery which can be branded with company details and logos. They also offer biodegradable catering products and cotton shopping bags.

Supreme Creations - www.supreme-creations.co.uk
Supreme Creations is the UK's number one printer and manufacturer of promotional textiles, offering a comprehensive collection of products for promotional or retail use. Supreme Creations can manufacture and print cotton and canvas bags, tea towels and aprons with your logo to promote a campaign or event.

Office Supplies

Data Supplies and Accessories Ltd - www.eco-toner.co.uk
Data Supplies and Accessories can supply your business with Tinto toner cartridges. Tinto cartridges are remanufactured high quality, environmentally friendly printer cartridges for all major brands of printers.

Delta Design Ltd - www.printing.com
Delta Design Ltd can supply your business with recycled stationery. They also participate in the printing.com tree appeal which aims to plant 10,000 trees in 2006.

Empty Cartridge - www.emptycartridge.co.uk
Empty Cartridge collect empty Laser and Inkjet printer cartridges for recycling from businesses and individuals throughout the UK.

Green Stationery Company (The) - www.greenstat.co.uk
The Green Stationery Company is the UK's premier recycled paper and green office products supplier.

Remarkable - www.remarkable.co.uk
Remarkable sells a wide range of products made using UK recycled materials.

Scotfax - www.scotfax.co.uk
Scotfax supply recycled photocopiers and laser printers throughout the UK and also provide a repair service.

Transmail - www.transmail.co.uk
Transmail offer a selection of office supplies such as recycled polythene envelopes as well as carrier bags, self adhesive labels and luggage tags.

Cleaning and Janitorial Supplies

Astral Hygiene - www.astralhygiene.co.uk
Astral Hygiene Cleaning and Janitorial Supplies offers a variety of recycled and reusable products such as kitchen roll, paper towels, napkins, dish cloths, mop heads and bin liners. In addition to this they stock a range of eco-friendly cleaning products.

Ecover - http://www.ecover.com/xp/en/default.aspx
Ecover is an international company active in the production of ecological detergents and cleansing agents which are phosphate free.

Green Depot - www.greendepot.co.uk
Green Depot provide trade price Eco Business Supplies and aim to help Small to Medium Enterprises (SMEs) go green.

General Products

Enviroglass - www.enviroglass.co.uk
Enviroglass is Shetland's award winning glass recycling company, operated by Shetland Amenity Trust. Enviroglass recycle waste glass and develop innovative products made from recycled glass.

Ethics Girls - www.ethicsgirls.co.uk
Ethics Girls is a website for women who want to be green and ethical in their shopping and work place. Their shop has a variety of recycled products and also regular features and news to keep everyone up to date.

Green Mobile - www.greenmobile.co.uk
Green Mobile are the UK's first environmentally friendly mobile and landline phone service, formed in association with the Woodland Trust and Friends of the Earth. Green Mobile plant 3 trees for each new mobile connection and give 6% of their customers' ongoing monthly bills to their charity partners.

Kacey Limited - www.kaceyltd.com
Kacey Limited are manufacturers and distributors of 100% recycled plastic products. They sell furniture, jetties, boardwalks and other products all made from recycled plastic.

LUMA - www.lumadirect.com
LUMA offer luxury organic and fairtrade bed, bath and baby products. They welcome wholesale enquiries from hotels, interior designers and selected shops and can offer trade discounts and bespoke services.

Niko-tin.com - www.niko-tin.com
Niko-tin is a range of pocket/personal litter tins or ashtrays designed to give smokers the means to dispose of their litter in a responsible and safe way. Niko-tin allows your organisation to cater for your customers and members needs, can carry your bespoke branding and communicate your environmental message.

Rapanui - www.rapanuiclothing.com
Rapanui offer a variety of eco friendly clothing using renewable energy for power and manufacturing. They also pay a fair price for their materials in their 'total' approach to sustainability.

Reel Furniture - www.reelfurniture.co.uk
Gallery of eco furniture, houseware and gifts.

Souvenir Cranwell - www.souvenir-cranwell.com
Souvenir Cranwell develops, manufactures and promotes unique technologies that have wide-ranging domestic and industrial applications that can reduce waste volumes with considerable savings. In particular, they have solar battery regenerators and other eco friendly products.

The Porridge Bowl - www.theporridgebowl.com
The Porridge Bowl is a mobile catering business that uses 100% bio-degradable containers, spoons and napkins, they are even fully compostable.

The Water Point - www.thewaterpoint.com
The Waterpoint offers a wide variety of environmentally friendly and carbon neutral water coolers for the home and the office.

Tracey Timber - www.traceytimber.co.uk
Tracey Timber offer Decor chip and Tiger woodchip made from recycled wood and pallets which they collect. This product is coloured naturally and can be used for landscaping and ground cover.

Unimobiles - www.unimobiles.com
Unimobiles is an online shop for refurbished mobile phones that also offers repair services.

W B Grieve Groundworks - www.wbgrieve.co.uk
WB Grieve Groundworks specialise in cost effective and environmentally sensitive solutions using modern groundwork machinery operated by a highly skilled workforce. The company can supply recycled materials such as topsoil, armour stone and dyking stones.

Online Catalogues

British Eco - www.britisheco.com
The British Eco website sells a range of solar powered, garden, eco-friendly and outdoor products.

By Nature - www.bynature.co.uk
The By Nature website offers a wide range of products made with respect for care of the environment and for people that produce them. It also contains useful advice and information on making choices for a greener lifestyle.

Eco Label - www.eco-label.com
The EU Eco Label system is a unique certification scheme aimed to help European consumers distinguish greener, more environmentally friendly products and services.

Eco Retail - www.ecoretailonline.com
Eco Retail offer office stationary and other eco products.

Ecotopia - www.ecotopia.co.uk
An eco website for socially responsible shopping, offering a wide selection of environmentally friendly, fairly traded and recycled products from gifts to homeware, garden goods, glassware, wind up gadgets and eco-friendly cleaning products.

ECOutlet - www.ecoutlet.co.uk
ECOutlet stocks a wide range of items made using recycled and biodegradable materials including composters, energy & water saving devices, bags and accessories.

Ecozone - www.ecozone.co.uk
Ecozone is an online catalogue offering a wide range of environmentally friendly products.

Fair Trade Stand (The) - www.fairtradestand.net
The Fair Trade Stand sells a variety of fair trade products, with the majority being made from renewable and sustainable resources. They also sell recycled products including glassware made from recycled soft drink bottles.

Natural Collection - www.naturalcollection.com
The Natural Collection catalogue is a range of eclectic, unusual, useful and interesting products carefully chosen to inspire ideas towards a sustainable future.

Nigel's Eco Store - www.nigelsecostore.com
Nigel's Eco Store sells environmentally friendly items that are fun, functional and desirable, including eco friendly office supplies.

rag-and-bone - www.rag-and-bone.co.uk
Rag and Bone offers an economical and effortless way to give a new home to unwanted, but still usable, large household and business items. Everything listed here is free-of-charge when you collect it.

ReUseItAll - www.reuseitall.com
ReUseItAll.com provides the opportunity for individuals and companies to pass on items and materials free of charge that could be of benefit to others.