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Green World Recycling Ltd.

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GWR is a not for profit organisation registered in UK.

It was established and started its activities during the summer of 1998. GWRs articles express: "...all proceed from such business will be attributed to Environmental causes". It has no shareholders.

Green World Recycling collects used clothes and shoes through a system of its own clothing banks.

GWR supports the causes described in the articles of The GAIA-Movement Trust Living Earth Green World Action. Currently GWR supports the projects in Southern Africa, India and in Brazil. To read more about these projects click on "GAIA Projects" under the banner of this page.

The members of the company  are almost all working with environmental issues . The directors of GWR are all dealing with environmental issues in their daily life. The board has decided to support the activities of The GAIA-Movement Trust Living Earth Green World Action.

Read more about GWR on: Green World Recycling Ltd 

Contact details:

Green World Recycling Ltd
Unit 15, The Hayes Trading Estate, Folkes Road 
Stourbridge. West Midland DY98RG. UK

Company No 3558720
Vat No 713 6086 47

We would like to attend meetings and discussions about environmental problems. If you or your organisation are interested  in our participation in an event, feel free to call.

 


Only a small part of waste clothes is recycled or reused. In the US only 15%.Each kg of clothes donated saves 4 kg of CO2!

Data in a new report from the Danish Technological University show the many environmental benefits of donating used clothes.

Green World Recycling has over 600 collection boxes in the UKGreen World Recycling Ltd.

A UK based not for profit company that pays royalties to The GAIA-Movement for the use of the GAIA logo

GAIA US has about 600 clothes collection boxes in the Chicago areaThe GAIA-Movement Living Earth Green World Action USA, Inc.

A US based not for profit organisation, which has donated funds to a number of GAIA projects in the developing world

Clothes as waste

In the US an average of 30 kg of clothes pr person is dumped as waste every year.
In Sweden it is 9 kg/person

Landfills

In the developed world very little area is available for new landfills, and the old ones are filling up. At the East Coast of USA they will only last 5 years. In the Midwest of USA 10 years.

Carbon emissions

We can triple the lifetime of clothes if they are reused. This means a storage of carbon in stead of creating greenhouse gasses when they rot or burn at the landfills.

Local distribution of Chardust charcoalCommunity Carbon Collectors in Kenya

Chardust has teamed up with an NGO that has an existing garbage collection program to encourage Kibera slum dwellers in Kenya to act as “carbon collectors”, salvaging charcoal dust to sell to Chardust for processing into briquettes.
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