SET Office Supplies | Office Supplies Cardiff | Office Supplies Swansea

Our Green Promise

In our ever increasing environmentally aware society, here at SET Office Supplies we are committed to providing our customers with a 'green' alternative.

We also practice what we preach, at our offices and warehouse we pride ourselves on our commitment to helping the environment.

We use recycled products wherever we can.

We recycle all our office paper waste.

We also recycle our cartridges and we use remanufactured toners in our printers and copiers.

We comply fully with Waste Packaging Regulations. We recycle 60% of all the packaging that we send out to customers.

All our cardboard and soft plastic waste at our warehouse is recycled.

We also offer you the choice to receive all your statements and invoices by email thus considerably cutting down on paper usage and wastage both our end and yours.

Green products we offer you

We pride ourselves on providing you with a huge range of environmentally friendly products, from a full range of recycled paper to recycling bins, re-manufactured cartridges, bio-degradable products, fair-trade tea and coffee and many, many more items. Look out for the different 'green' symbols in our catalogue and our online catalogue, for an explanation of these symbols please click here. And we promise that if we do not have a 'green' alternative for you we will do our very best to source it for you.

Recycling Services we offer you

Cartridge Recycling

We provide a free service for the disposal of your old cartridges. Your SET delivery driver will pick up your empty cartridges and we will recycle them for you. Just call one of our sales team to arrange collection and for more information.

Battery Disposal

Under the Waste Battery Regulations, we provide a take back scheme for all portable waste batteries. You can return your waste batteries to our business premises in person (please do not post) or you can hand them back to our driver who will bring them back to us to dispose of. Alternatively you can find your local waste portable battery recycling facility at www.recyclenow.com.
Most supermarkets & shops that sell batteries will have collection bins for used batteries and some town halls, libraries or schools may also have collection points. You may find stores in your local area more accessible.

What you can do

WEEE stands for Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment and is the fastest growing waste stream in the UK , growing by at least 5% each year. We dispose of over 1.2 million tonnes of electrical and electronic waste every year in the UK from the public alone.

Electronic waste is increasing 3 times faster than average municipal waste and the EU estimates that WEEE currently accounts for 4% of total waste.

Much of the UK 's electronic waste ends up in landfill sites, where toxins put communities at risk. Failure to segregate any type of recyclable material in the home will usually result in items being disposed of in a landfill site (buried in the ground in the UK ) or being incinerated. It has been estimated that landfill space in the UK will run out within the next 10 years. Recycling WEEE will bring significant benefits to our environment.
Where WEEE is not recycled, this waste can have negative impacts on soil, air and water quality which can lead to environmental damage, and have negative impacts on human and animal heath.

Find out how to minimise your effect on the environment by visiting www.recycle-more.co.uk and locate your nearest recycling facilities for electronic waste with the recycle-more.co.uk bank locator, which includes an easy to use interactive mapping system.

Here at SET we use local company Centillion Environment & Recycling based in Hirwaun, Aberdare, www.centillion-er.com and we can recommend them highly.