The Laundry have been collecting London’s dirty paper and making it nice and clean for three years. Our recycling family has grown to 900 happy customers. The Laundry was set up because there was pretty much diddly-squat in terms of recycling services for smaller businesses. They have their particular needs- like not being all too ecstatic about paying fixed fees when they only produced 2 sacks of recycling a week (Cough! No names mentioned). The Laundry sacks are pay as you go and don’t cost all that much.
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Rachel is the top cat of the Laundry, the bossy one. Rachel’s fave thing about the Laundry 
has been getting out into the van and practicing her netball shots with the blue bags and the map of London she has now can keep in her head - handy for kudos. Rachel also loves writing the weekly email reminder a bit too much (click here for examples) and has got in trouble for drawing on her personal life for inspiration. Rachel likes stickers, graphic novels and jazz dancing, but dislikes the word funky, falling over in the street and Howard from the Halifax ads.
Harriet turned up on her first day with a mangle under one arm and a box of ecover suds in the other but, alas, she soon discovered the truth: there is no actual laundry! Since recovering from this she has warmed to the idea of evangelising recycling to the world. Harriet likes sunny days and heavy bass lines but isn’t so fond of bacon smells or getting stuck in between tunnels on the tube.
The East End. Chris is The Laundry trucks’ daddy, he loves his Laundry Thursdays-the 
best bits are meeting different kinds of people but he hates the traffic (and the traffic wardens) which can make him late late late and make his blood pressure go through the roof! He devotes so much time to collecting recycling that when he gets home he just likes to put his feet up. His worst job would be working in an office as he’d feel trapped and his favourite job so far was when he used to be a lifeguard in the East End swimming pools, but he had to give it up because he got too much attention from the ladies!!
The Wild West. You can tell it’s Bob coming round the corner beacuse you will always hear his chuckle, huh huh huh huh. He doesn’t just chuckle round corners though, it’s all the time. He likes to answer the phone by saying yup yup and has great glee in phoning Rachel up when he spots a Laundry bag that has been put out on the wrong day; he also finds this very funny. His favourite thing about The Laundry is the cake that Rachel buys him every week; the worst thing is when people don’t put their bags out on time. He likes food. “I’ll eat anything me, even snake. Pigeons. In California, I had turtle. Very nice. Turtle soup”. Hates? He doesn’t hate anything (huh huh huh huh).
Mummy, where does the Laundry come from?
We are part of BioRegional Development Group which is an entrepreneurial, independent environmental organisation. We develop award winning, commercially viable products and services which meet more of our everyday needs from local renewable and waste resources, to help enable One Planet Living - living within our fair share of the Earth’s resources. BioRegional co-created the largest sustainable community in the country: BedZED (that’s where the Laundry lives), are working with the government to achieve a One Planet Olympics and we run other businesses like the BioRegional Charcoal Company, local charcoal which you can buy from B&Q. Learn more about our award winning projects here at www.bioregional.com. The Laundry lives in a very nice house- please do come and visit us at BedZED - our colourful home.
