Topic: Recycling

Case study – thinkFOUND: Making high quality furniture with London roots

5 December 2022

Snapshot thinkFOUND is a social enterprise based in Waltham Forest that makes furniture from waste wood while providing young...

Case study – Fallen & Felled: Reclaiming felled trees for use as high-quality timber

Snapshot Fallen & Felled is a London-based timber company that repurposes fallen urban trees into hardwood timber and...

Case study – Colour Sound Experiment: Re-wiring a circular economy business

Snapshot Colour Sound Experiment, an equipment hire specialist for live events, found they were often forced to replace damaged...

Case study – Phoebe English: Pioneering a fully circular, closed-loop fashion studio

1 December 2022

Snapshot Phoebe English, a London-based sustainable fashion studio, has seen first-hand the volume of textile waste generated...

Case study – KAPDAA – The Offcut Company: Giving new life to textile waste

Snapshot KAPDAA – The Offcut Company turns brands’ off-cut fabrics into beautiful accessories. They saw how few solutions...

Case study – Batch.Works: From ‘single-use’ to ‘multi-use’ – transforming plastic waste into new products

Snapshot Batch.Works, a prototyping and product design company, identified the opportunity to tackle the issue of single-use...

Case study – Dartford Composites: Recycling acetone for reuse in the rail industry

Snapshot Dartford Composites produces a variety of glass-reinforced plastic (GRP) parts for the rail industry that form products...

Case study – THRIFT+ – Launching a new recycling Thrift+ bag

Snapshot Thrift+ is an online platform for second-hand shopping and resale. They saw first-hand how much textile waste is...

Making recycling work for people in flats project - featured image

Toolkit – Flats recycling package

This Toolkit is for housing providers, building managers and service providers that want to make improvements to the recycling...

Report – Making recycling work for people in flats 2.0

This report presents the results of ReLondon’s Flats 2.0 research project which explores new ways of increasing recycling...

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