Remarkable (stationery)
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| Founded | 1996 |
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| Founder | Edward Douglas Miller |
| Headquarters | UK |
| Products | Pencils and office supplies |
| Website | remarkable.co.uk |
Remarkable Recycled Ltd (05394545 - Incorporated on 16 March 2005) is a UK company that makes stationery products out of recycled materials. With its sister company, Edvironment Ltd, it sells a range of recycled products, such as the recycled CD and vending cup pencil.
History
In 1996, Edward Douglas Miller founded the company with the aim to value waste as a resource.[1] In 1998, it won UK Invention of the Year and a year later won UK environmental company of the year and UK recycled product of the year.[2][3]
In 2000, as part of the UK millennium celebrations a Remarkable product was announced as a 'Millennium Product' by the Design Council’s Cool Britannia awards. For an exhibition in the Millennium Dome the company made 3.75 million pencils, recycled from plastic cups.[2][3] In 2011, Edward Douglas Miller appeared on Channel 4's The Secret Millionaire.[4]
In 2002, the company was granted £20,000 by London Remade, and bought brand new binding machines to bind the recycled notepads.[5] This helped Remarkable to be able to create a greater range of products including plastic rulers (also made from vending machine cups), recycled rubber tyres; to make mouse mats and pencil cases.
In 2013, the company set the Guinness World Record for the longest pencil, by producing one 323.51 meters long.[6] However, that length has since been surpassed.[7]
Remarkable worked with Keep Britain Tidy (KBT). Products are co branded, with royalties going to support KBT.[8]
Remarkable Eco solutions Ltd was dissolved in 2016 with the closure of the factory in Worcester in 2014, with the loss of some employees,[4] because of a contract being cancelled with a major wholesaler. Some machinery was sold off, with the trade marks and IPR still remaining with the founder and inventor.
In 2017 production continues, turning UK waste into recycled products.[9]
References
- ↑ Lindsey Harrad, 'I used to be …’ from Vegetarian Living, retrieved 27 September 2018
- 1 2 Remarkable from TheGreenOrganisation.info, retrieved 3 September 2018
- 1 2 Making pencils from plastic cups from BBC News, 12 May 2006, retrieved 3 September 2018
- 1 2 August 2014 from PPDA.co.uk, retrieved 3 September 2018
- ↑ London Remade-Strategic Partnership in Recycling and Regeneration Archived 2018-09-03 at the Wayback Machine by Nawon Kim from Institute for Global Environmental Strategies, December 2004, retrieved 3 September 2018
- ↑ "Longest Pencil (Archived copy of 2013 record)". Guinness World Records. 2013-09-17. Archived from the original on 2015-01-10. Retrieved 2021-04-25.
- ↑ "Longest Pencil". Guinness World Records. 2017-10-10. Retrieved 2021-04-25.
- ↑ Keep Britain Tidy Partnership To Launch Eco-Friendly Stationery Archived 2018-09-03 at the Wayback Machine by Darren Moore, Chartered Institution of Wastes Management (CIWM), 3 November 2015, retrieved 3 September 2018
- ↑ Remarkable. "About us..." Remarkable. Retrieved 2018-09-26.