We offer business and domestic storage in Brentford, Ealing, Chiswick, West London and Slough, Berkshire. Storage services for office, archive, home and domestic use, in secure storage rooms.

1. CLOTHES UPCYCLING PROJECTS:
GOOD FOR YOUR POCKET,
GOOD FOR THE ENVIRONMENT
Since 2010 the growth of upcycling ideas has meant that upcycling
companies and those that provide a shop window for upcycling
companies have seen huge growth. Products tagged ‘upcycled’
on Etsy.com have seen an increase of 2489% since 2010.
UK re-use (14%)
Overseas re-use (34%)
Recycling (14%)
Incineration (7%)
Landfill (31%)
Over 350,000 tonnes of used clothing
goes into landfill each year.
Over 350,000 tonnes of used clothing
goes into landfill each year.
SPACE STATION
SELF STORAGE
0800 458 2447
0330 100 2815
Upcycling n 1 taking the component parts of a redundant
object and using them to create a new, useful object
(thereby reducing the use of virgin materials).
Angus Middleton, Director of Environmental Consultancy,
Renaissance Regeneration and Founder of Ecoboom.co.uk
Sources: www.entrepreneur.com www.Etsy.com
30,000
196,681
7,900January
2010
January
2011
January
2013
31%
34%
14%
14%
7%
Source: www.wrap.org.uk
It is estimated that up to 95% of the
textiles that are landfilled each year
could become upcycled clothes.
There are 3,000 textile banks in the UK
but less than 25% of capacity is used.
Source: www.wasteonline.org.uk
Upcycled products can be
made from all sorts of things.
Once you have your upcycling ideas you can find items for your
projects and store them until you are ready to start upcycling!
25% of capacity
Upcycled
clothing can
be created
from all sorts
of things!
Vintage items
Second hand
fashions
Remnants
Dead stock
fabrics
Reclaimed
materials
carboot
sale
SPACE STATION
SELF STORAGE
Every year UK households throw away
almost 30 million tonnes of rubbish!
3.5 million
On average, each person in the UK
throws away seven times their body
weight in rubbish every year. Much
of this could be used for upcycling.
© Interesting Social Media Infographics by Go Niche www.goniche.co.uk