Useful Contacts List

Specialist Types of Recycling

Battery Recycling

The British Battery Manufacturers Association

26 Grosvenor Gardens
London
SW1W 0GT
Tel: 020 7838 4800

Website: http://www.bbma.co.uk

The British Battery Manufacturers Association (BBMA) was formed in 1986 and represents the manufacturers of portable batteries. The website has lots of information on batteries.

REBAT

BBMA
26 Grosvenor Gardens
London
SW1W 0GT
Tel: 020 7838 4800

Website: http://www.rebat.com

REBAT stands for REcycling BAtteries. REBAT is an initiative managed by the British Battery Manufacturers Association to encourage collection of nickel cadmium batteries in the UK. It has a list of companies that recycle batteries.

Can Recycling

The UK Aluminium Packaging Recycling Organisation

1, Brockhill Court
Brockhill Lane
Redditch
B97 6RB
Tel: 01527 597757

Website: http://www.alupro.org.uk

The UK Aluminium Packaging Recycling Organisation (Alupro) is responsible for encouraging and developing recycling collection initiatives.

Steel Can Recycling Information Bureau

Website: http://www.scrib.org

This site supplies information and facts about steel can recycling and lots of fun games for kids.

Novelis

Website: http://www.thinkcans.com

The Novelis site offers information on aluminium cans, a recycling plant tour and games for children. It also has a ‘cash for cans’ scheme.

Furniture

Emmaus Mossley

Longlands Mill
Queen Street
Mossley
Greater Manchester
OL5 9AH
Tel: 01457 838608/835105
Email: mossley.community@emmaus.org.uk

Website: http://www.emmaus.org.uk

Emmaus is a charity that offer a home and work to previously homeless and unemployed people. The project aims to be self-sufficient by collecting and selling donated goods such as furniture, bric-a-brac, electrical appliances, clothing, books, toys, etc.

Website: http://www.frn.org.uk

The Furniture Re-use Network is the national co-ordinating body for 300 furniture and appliance re-use and recycling organisations in the UK that collect a wide range of household items to pass onto people in need.

Garden Waste

Community Compost network

67 Alexandra Road
Sheffield
S2 3EE
Tel: 0114 258 0483 or 0114 255 3720
Email: info@communitycompost.org

Website: http://www.communitycompost.org

A member's network that supports, promotes and provides information on community composting.

Composting Association

Website: http://www.compost.org.uk

The Composting Association is the United Kingdom’s not for profit membership organisation, promoting composting. It has general information on composting

The Henry Doubleday Research Association

Ryton Organic Gardens
Coventry
Warwickshire
CV8 3LG
Tel: +44 (0) 24 7630 3517
Email: enquiry@hydra.org.uk

Website: http://www.hdra.org.uk

Glass

British Glass

9 Churchill Way
Chapeltown
Sheffield
S35 2PY
Tel: +44 (0) 114 290 1850
Email: info@britglass.co.uk

Website: http://www.britglass.co.uk

Website for children: http://www.recyclingglass.co.uk

The British Glass Manufacturers' Confederation represents the UK's glass industry. British Glass also provides a wide range of educational resources with a view to encouraging the recyclers of the future

Glass Forever

Jo Hollins (Education Leader)
Rockware Glass Limited
Headlands Lane
Knottingley
West Yorkshire
WF11 OHP
Tel: 01977 674111
Email: glassforever@rockware.co.uk

Website: http://www.glassforever.co.uk

The Glass Forever web site will give you information about glass packaging and how to recycle glass, as well as games and educational visits

Mobile Phone recycling

Action Aid

Hamlyn House
Macdonald Road
Archway
London
N19 5PG
Tel: +44 (0)20 7561 7561
Email: mail@actionaid.org.uk

Website: http://www.actionaid.org.uk/605/recycling.html

ActionAid is a partnership of people who are fighting for a world without poverty.

Child Advocacy International

75a London Road
Newcastle Under Lyme
ST5 1ND
Tel: 01782 712599
Email: office@childadvocacyinternational.co.uk

Website: http://www.childadvocacyinternational.co.uk

Working to Improve Healthcare for Children Worldwide. A registered charity that collects phones and sells them on to be recycled or reconditioned to raise money to support its vital work in children's hospitals worldwide.

Help the Aged

FREEPOST Fonebak Recycling
Grays
RM15 4YE

Put your old mobile phone, plus battery and charger if possible, into an envelope. Don't forget to remove your sim card! Send it to the freepost address above or drop your mobile phone into your local Help the Aged shop

Oxfam Bring Bring Scheme

Freepost LON16281
London
WC1N 3BR

Website: http://www.oxfam.org.uk/what_you_can_do/recycle/phones.htm

Just bring your mobile phones to any Oxfam shop, or if you're donating fewer than 10 phones, you can send them to Oxfam Bring Bring Scheme at the above address.

If you're donating more than 10 phones, please call 0870 752 0999 to arrange a courier.