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The EMERGE Collective…
EMERGE provides the full range of waste, recycling and confidential shredding services to businesses and schools, and promotes sustainable resource management by offering advice, information, and educational services within the wider community.
FareShare Greater Manchester work with major supermarkets to save food from going to waste by redistributing it around Greater Manchester to charities, schools and community groups who then turn it into meals for vulnerable people.
Touch Wood specialise in waste wood and timber reuse and upcycling. They sell reclaimed wood, such as batoning, scaffold boards and pallet wood to anyone wishing to work with upcycled materials.
Our vision is a world where Reduce, Reuse and Recycle are second nature. A world where people don’t go hungry. A world where people cherish and innately value natural resources.
EMERGE has been at the front line of sustainability and 3Rs practice in Greater Manchester for over two decades, improving people’s lives and upskilling our wider community in the process.
Our charitable activities include running the Greater Manchester operations of FareShare GM in partnership with the national food surplus charity, and our successful Volunteering and Employability Programme. The charity is supported by our sister social enterprise EMERGE Recycling which also runs innovative reclaimed timber workshop Touch Wood.
Our vision is a world where Reduce, Reuse and Recycle are second nature. A world where people don’t go hungry. A world where people cherish and innately value natural resources.
EMERGE has been at the front line of sustainability and 3Rs practice in Greater Manchester for over two decades, improving people’s lives and upskilling our wider community in the process.
Supported by our sister social enterprise EMERGE Recycling, our charitable activities include the Greater Manchester operations of national food surplus charity FareShare, FareShare GM; our innovative reclaimed timber workshop Touch Wood; and our successful Volunteering and Employability Programme.
FareShare Greater Manchester
We run the Greater Manchester branch of national charity FareShare, working in partnership to help people experiencing food poverty and reduce the impact of food waste on the planet.
EMERGE Recycling
Our sister social enterprise has provided high quality recycling services in Greater Manchester since 1996.
Touch Wood
Our reclaimed timber workshop specialises in reusing waste wood and upcycling it into bespoke products.
Volunteering and Employability
Whether it’s a 4-hour shift once a week, or a one-off contribution of time, we offer a wide range of interesting and rewarding opportunities.
Touch Wood
Our reclaimed timber workshop specialises in reusing waste wood and upcycling it into bespoke products.
Volunteering and Employability
Whether it’s a 4-hour shift once a week, or a one-off contribution of time, we offer a wide range of interesting and rewarding opportunities.
Recycling Week 2024 – EMERGE Recycling
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Recycling Week 2024 – FareShare Supplier Spotlight on GXO
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Recycling Week 2024 – Spotlight on Touch Wood
During Recycling Week 14 - 20 October, we’d like to showcase some of the great work being undertaken by EMERGE 3Rs – we are EMERGE Recycling, FareShare Greater Manchester and Touch Wood. Today we are shining a light on Touch Wood. Touch Wood is a social enterprise...