Creating opportunities, helping people, helping the environment

From wood, carpet and kerbside recycling to furniture reuse, paint reprocessing and community composting, CRNS members handle a vast range of materials and engage in a broad swathe of activities. These include the refurbishment and reuse of furniture; the recycling of materials and products into new goods, community composting (turning food and garden waste into compost for growing food and plants), and waste prevention.

Many CRNS members are pioneers in their field, including the UK’s first non-shredding mattress recycling facility, Springback; the Shetland-based glass recycling enterprise Enviroglass, which has patented a process to turn bottles and jars into paving slabs; Scotland’s first proper paint reprocessing operation, RePaint Scotland; and an ambitious project to collect food waste for composting food waste from high-rise flats in Dumbartonshire.

CRNS members provide services to businesses, local authorities, households and individuals. For more information on all our members do, go to our Find a member page. For more information on how our members engage in different apsects of resource management, read through the Resources section on this website.

The CRNS Membership Mapping Report 2008/09 provides a more detailed view of the membership and demonstrates the positive social and environmental impacts our member organisations have across Scotland. You should also read the CRNS Carbon Comparative report, which demonstrates the impact CRNS members have on reducing and preventing damaging greenhouse gas emissions.