ActionAid Recycling - mobile phone, toner & inkjet cartridge collection scheme

Alupro - UK aluminium packaging recycling organisation

Battery Logic - Uniross rechargeable batteries online

Bin Company - recycled and biodegradable plastic bags

Bring Bring - donate your old mobile phone to Oxfam

British Aerosols Manufacturing Association - represents the aerosol industry, from suppliers of components and ingredients to fillers and marketers of aerosol products

British Plastics Federation - trade association of the UK Plastics Industry, a springboard for industry action, existing to exploit common opportunities and resolve shared problems.

www.britishrecycledplastic.co.uk - products made locally in the UK entirely from UK waste that would otherwise be diverted to landfill.

Buy-Recycled - the UK 's directory of recycled products

CashforCans - leader in aluminium rolled products and aluminium can recycling. Cash for cans schemes

CHAIN - Cheshire Anti-Incinerator Network

The Chartered Institution of Wastes Management - professional body for waste and resource management.

Choose the Alternative - supplier of expertise, services and products for smart consumers. Smart thinking in business and at home can save you time, effort and money, and positively contributes to sustainable living.

CIWEM: Water Reuse - CIWEM's new ‘Water Reuse' web site resource is a mine of information on the latest technology and best practice in water recycling from domestic to industrial scale.

The Clean Clothes Campaign - an international campaign, focused on improving working conditions in the global garment and sportswear industries.

Community Composting Network - is a fast growing network comprising over 180 members across the UK involved in community composting. Members include projects, local authorities and other supporting organisations.

Community Recycling Network - membership organisation promoting community based sustainable waste management as a practical and effective way of tackling the UK 's growing waste problem

Community Re-Paint - UK network of over 60 community-based paint re-use schemes collecting “half-tins” of leftover for use

Community Recycling Network UK - a membership organisation promoting community based sustainable waste management as a practical and effective way of tackling the UK's growing waste problem

Community Wood Recycling - community - focused wood recycling projects

CompostAbin - home composting and water conservation

The Composting Association - promotes best practice in composting and the uses of composts

Compost Guide - a guide on how to make compost

Curtain Exchange - second-hand curtain service

DEFRA recycling and waste pages - integrating environmental, social and economic objectives - putting sustainable development into practice every day, and championing sustainable development as the way forward for Government.

Digital Links - recycling computers for the developing world

Donate a PC - give your old hardware to UK charities, not-for-profit organisations and educational establishments

Empty-cartridges.co.uk - buys your empty inkjet cartridges

Environmental Data Services - information on a wide range of industry related environmental issues

Environmental Protection Agency - (US) comprehensive assessment of the implications of different waste management options

Envirofone.com - cash for your old mobiles

Envirowise - waste minimisation advice for businesses

Ethical Computer Recycling - devoted to the zero landfill recycling of computer equipment and destruction of resident data to avoid the disposal of items or constituent materials at wasteful and toxic landfill sites

Finding out about Water Pollution - UK rivers network

Free2collect - one man's junk is another man's treasure!

Thefreebay - portal for people to offer items thay they no longer use

Freecycle - a grassroots and entirely nonprofit movement of people who are giving (& getting) stuff for free in their own towns.

Furniture Re-use Network - national body which supports, assists and develops charitable re-use organisations across the UK

Green Cone - an environmental disposal unit for all food waste'

Green Gonzo - to reduce waste by encouraging the re-use of goods

Green-Works - charity passing on quality office furniture at very low cost to charities, schools, community groups and even start-up businesses

Homerecycling.co.uk - recycling bins

Industry Council for Packaging and the Environment (INCPEN)

Junkk.com - inspires people to think differently about things they might previously have consigned to the bin.

Karraway - paper, toner cartridge & fluorescent tube recycling

Living Soil - food waste recycling

London Remade - is in the business of recycling and creating environmental solutions for a sustainable capital

Mail Preference Service - supports your right to choose the mail you want.

Mass balance - info about environmental impact of resource use throughout the UK

My Book Your Book - on-line co-operative library for the mutual exchange of books.

Nappy service - to reduce the amount of disposable nappies going to landfill

National Association of Toy and Leisure Libraries -offer services to local families based on regular toy loan for a nominal fee (and sometimes for free). They provide carefully selected toys to borrow, play sessions, and a friendly, informative meeting place for parents and carers.

National Household Hazardous Waste Forum - led initiative to seek practical solutions to the many problems associated with the management of household hazardous waste (HHW), including collection, recycling and safe disposal.

The No Incineration Alliance - at Carranstown, CO Meath

No Incinerators For Europe - dedicated to the elimination of waste incineration throughout Europe.

Oxfam originals - vintage and retro clothing

Paper Round - collects from organisations large and small in both the private and public sectors.

Plascanltd - a recycling device to crush both cans and bottles

Read it Swap it - free book sawpping service

Real Nappy Association - gives details of all your cloth nappy contacts whether you want to wash your own or use a local laundry service.

Rebat - REcycling BAtteries. REBAT is an initiative managed by the British Battery Manufacturers Association to encourage collection of nickel cadmium batteries in the UK, as required under European legislation.

RECOUP - plastics recycling

Re~Cycle - second hand bicycles and parts to less developed countries

Recycle More - one-stop recycling information centre.

Recycle now - recycling promotion in Great Britain

Recycle Works - offers a complete range of home composting equipment

Recycled Paper Supplies - the specialist suppliers of quality recycled paper, card,envelopes and recycled stationery products by mail order.

Recycled Products Guide - UK's directory of recycled products

The Recycling Consortium - sustainable waste management business.

Recyclite - fluorescent tube and sodium lamp recycling services

Reduce, reuse, repair - tips to save money by reusing

Retread Manufacturers Association

Reuze - how, what and where to recycle inthe UK

Telecom Green - recycles used phone systems

Tetrapak recycling - carton recycling

Tools For Self-Reliance - refurbishes tools in the UK and then sends them to communities in Africa. We support rural artisans and craftworkers with tools and training so they can improve their businesses.

Trade Waste - recycle and office rubbish and securely destroy confidential papers

TRAID - charity committed to protecting the environment and reducing world poverty by recycling and campaigning at home.

UK Cartridge Recyclers Association - specialists in remanufacturing to their original condition used toners/inkjets - collection service for re-usable cartridges

Urban Composting Ltd - designed to provide, services, products and clear information about urban composting systems.

Urban Mines - practical, sustainable and viable methods of managing the waste stream

VermiSell - worms & natural compost

Vision Aid Overseas - a charity dedicated to helping people in the developing world whose lives are blighted by poor eyesight, particularly where spectacles can help.

Waste Aware Scotland - national campaign that aims to change public attitudes and behaviour towards waste.

Wasteconnect - recycling points by postcode

The Waste Book - a directory guide to reducing, reusing, and recycling waste, better waste management, and social and environmental issues

Waste Exchange UK - site advertises both waste materials produced and materials used in businesses.

Waste Online - environmental charity dedicated to the reduction, reuse and recycling of household waste.

Waste Watch - working to protect the environment by advocating waste reduction, re-use and recycling.

The Waste & Resources Action Programme (WRAP) - works in partnership, helping businesses and the general public to reduce waste, to use more recycled material, and recycle more things more often.

Wiggly Wigglers - wormeries, garden composters, pest control, bird boxes etc.