• What materials do you need to make your piece? Make a list.

  • What do you already have in your studio? Can you recycle your own materials or objects?
  • Does it damage the aesthetic of your piece to use a more sustainable material? If yes, then can you source your materials from a local supplier cutting down on fuel emissions instead?
 
  • Does your piece need to be large? Can it convey its message whilst being a smaller size?
  • Can you use recycled materials or electronic components?

  • Do you need a company to fabricate your artwork? Can you use a local company, with a sustainable business model or a small local business?
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  • What will you do with the waste you create whilst making your work? Donate it? Recycle It? Turn it into a new work?
Links for further reading
Precious Plastics, make your own plastic recycling machines at home and create your own materials

Open Workshop Network, resource for all open-access workshops in London where you can make your own projects

The Sustainable Angle, organisation that has created a database of sustainable soft materials

Forestry Commission, information about why using sustainable wood products is a good idea
Grown in Britain, local woodland project
FSC, information on sustainable wood certifications
PEFC, information on sustainable wood certifications
​Timber Trade Federation, why there work is crucial in the wood industry

LCRN Waste Management resource

British Glass, information on glass recycling

Living Roofs, information about green roofs
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Links to suppliers
(currently these links are all based in London and the surrounding areas, UK. We will be expanding these resources as the project develops)
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Sustainable wood suppliers
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Saunders Seasonings
Timberyard
South London Timber
Vastern Timber
Accoya
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Reclaimed wood Suppliers
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​Riverside Timber Recycle
St.Albans Wood Recycling
Reclaimed Ltd
West7 Reclamation Yard
City Wood 
​English Woodlands Timber
Fabricators

Pangaea Sculpture centre
​Big Soda
London Mould Makers
​Mike Smith Studio
​Other Fabrications
​MDM Props
​Howling Hands
Glass suppliers
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UrbnRok
​Diamik Glass
​British Glass Database
​Barretts Glass
Waste management: Recycle and Reuse centres
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Western Road, Haringey
​Summers Lane, Barnet
South Access Road, Waltham Forest
​Gateway Road, Waltham Forest
​Regis Road, Camden
​Islington Reuse and Recycling centre
RRC, Tower Hamlets
​Reuse and Recycling Centre, Lewisham
​Reuse and Recycling, Southwark
​Reuse and Recycling Centre, Acton
​Vale Street, Lambeth
​Nathan Way, Greenwich