Special Valentine 10% Discount for Schools and Nurseries! We love supporting our “Best of British” eco manufacturers, so we’re offering your school or nursery a special Valentine price offer: Just send an email to: [email protected] with an official Purchase Order containing any of our novelty bins and playground equipment by the end of February 2018 and we’ll give you […]
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Working in partnership with business and civil society, the UK government is introducing the first ever Green GB Week which is an annual week designed to highlight the opportunities clean growth offers the UK and raise understanding of how business and the public can contribute to tackling climate change. The UK has led the world to date […]
In this blog, published today on EthicalMuch.com Bird Lovegod chats with Matt Roper, founder of GreenBuying.co.uk, and how he aims to bring ecological decision-making into procurement. Bird: Matt, every startup has a story behind it. What is yours, and GreenBuyings? Matt: Hi Bird.. My story – well I come from a procurement background, and have advised many companies and […]
As founder of GreenBuying.co.uk I have always been focused on two simple beliefs: first, that organisations create the biggest carbon and waste footprint on our environment; and second that those in purchasing roles within organisations make supplier selection and ordering/stock-holding decisions which in turn determine the extent of that footprint. It was these two beliefs […]
As you can see from looking through our website, we sell a lot of eco-business products and services – indeed this is all that we do. Well, actually, not quite all. You probably don’t know that GreenBuying.co.uk can also help UK based companies ethically clear their offices of surplus materials and furniture. We’ve not marketed […]
Green Gas has made the headlines this week – it has reached a milestone whereby it supplies 1 million UK households. According to the Green Gas Certification Scheme, that’s an incredible thirteen-fold rise since 2017 in use of biomethane, which is made from food and farm waste. There are now 60 Biomethane plants in the […]
We know from talking to many of our business and household customers that hard water, caused by limescale build up, is costing hundreds of pounds a year (if not thousands if a business) in higher heating costs, appliance maintenance and replacement costs. Hard water will also increase the amount of detergent used for washing clothes. […]
We at GreenBuying.co.uk are always searching for genuinely eco-friendly products and services which we can then showcase to UK businesses, schools, councils and households. Given the surge in popularity in green energy tariffs over the last few years, as companies and households seek to protect the environment through their choice of energy source, we decided […]
Hi there, A very quick blog today. Seemingly every day more scientific evidence comes out in the public domain about the damage we’re doing to the planet and its biodiversity. All of us, whether at work or at home, have a duty to act in a way which protects the planet. Countries must cut their […]
On behalf of everyone here at GreenBuying.co.uk, we’d like to wish all clients – UK companies, schools and households – a very merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! Our wish for 2020 is that Governments around the world stick to their new pledges to reduce carbon in their economies.And we also wish that supermarkets […]
The more I learn about the terrible damage man is inflicting on the earth and its biodiversity, it makes me really sad to think that our young children will inherit this mess (and worse!) when we’re long gone. That’s why we need to do as much as we can now to protect our fragile planet. […]