Useful Links

General

• The Waste and Resources Action Programme 

• Improvement and Development Agency (IdeA)    
• Environment Agency
• Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs 
• Recycle Now 
• Community Compost Network 
• Chem-Away The Chemical Disposal Service Finder is designed to help you locate your nearest chemical collection or disposal service (drop off facilities at household waste recycling centres).
• Explanation to glass recycling 
• Recycling Guide - an informative guide to learn about recycling at home, in school or at work 
• Local Authority Recycling Advisory Committee (LARAC) 

        provides advice on how people can recycle at home, in schools and how to recycle different materials.

• ENCAMS are an environmental charity who campaign directly to the public. They are best known for our Keep Britain Tidy campaign. On this website you will find information on their campaigns to improve the state of our streets and reduce anti-social behaviour.
• Cleaner Safer Greener - Open to councils and other land managers, this programme provides the biggest exchange of information ever on local environmental quality issues, with partners kept up to speed with the very latest thinking, legislation and case histories.
  The Network has clear objectives:
  • To create clean and welcoming parks and play areas
  • Improve the aesthetic appearance of our streets
  • Maintain places more efficiently and,
  • Leave people with a positive perception of the area they live in
• Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra)
  Defra drives forward the Government's programmes on the environment, food and rural affairs. Defra's remit is the pursuit of sustainable development - weaving together economic, social and environmental concerns.
• The DoH is responsible for setting health and social care policy inEngland. The Department's work sets standards and drives modernisation across all areas of the NHS, social care and public health.
• The Office of the Deputy Prime Minister (ODPM)
  ODPM's responsibilities for local and regional government, housing, planning, fire, regeneration, social exclusion and neighbourhood renewal puts the Office at the heart of Government's ambition to create sustainable communities for all.

Business

• Valient Recycling Ltd

• Envirowise

• Henry Doubleday Research Association 
• The Chartered Institute of Waste Management (CIWM)
• Department of Trade and Industry 

• Mailing Preference Service

• Capital Waste Facts

• Waste Online

• Friends of the Earth

• LondonRemade

• E-generation

• Recoup