2008 offers you over 2,000 NEW product lines - giving you the customer more choice, better value, and a local friendly, dedicated team always on hand to offer sales support and resolve your queries.

We are committed to being a reliable partner, delivering quality products and services at a price your budget can afford. EDCO are proud to announce the launch of our online ordering service, providing you with the convenience of ordering on a secure website - confident in the knowledge that your online order will be processed, with a high priority level by our local customer service team.

Company History

EDCO has been serving Northern Ireland’s educational market for over 120 years. The company first came in to existence in the late 19th century when it was established as an agency for the publisher Blackie, with an office in Belfast and Dublin. At the turn of the century the two offices combined to form a limited company with a share issue and Blackie’s involvement was minimised. The two offices separated and formed two companies which followed separate development paths. EDCO the company formed in Northern Ireland, was incorporated in 1923 and concentrated on manufacture and supply of stationery and classroom aids as well as the publishing of textbooks for the local market.

Currently

EDCO is one of Northern Ireland’s best known brands and has stood the test of time by changing and developing the business to meet the needs of the ever changing market of education. EDCO is currently owned by one of the worlds biggest educational buying groups. Yet still maintain their local company ethos and values by providing a choice of quality products, affordable prices and local personnel offer support and advice to you - our valued customer. Our local team provide the resources to develop and offer products and services needed here in Northern Ireland by our unique educational market and by doing so are on the pulse of latest curriculum developments.

About Us

EDCO is Northern Ireland’s leading educational supplier offering schools, colleges and educational establishments an extensive range of classroom essentials and teaching resources suitable from early learning right through to further education levels. We are committed to providing products and services which meet the needs of our customers and therefore work closely with the 5 Educational and Library boards, CCEA, all the teaching unions and educational bodies keeping up to date with all the latest teaching developments.

Environment

CARING FOR THE ENVIRONMENT...REDUCING...RE-USING...RECYCLING
Findel Education is committed to conserving the quality of the environment for its customers, employees and the general community - and to the continual improvement of its environmental performance.
Our initiatives include:

The careful planning of deliveries to reduce delivery fleet fuel consumption and exhaust emissions

The specific use of low sulphur fuel for the delivery fleet,

Recycling of waste paper, card and printer cartridges

Promotion of products that minimise environmental effects during production, use and disposal

The selection of suppliers who have committed themselves to sound environmental strategies

The Challenge
On average, each household in the UK produces about 1 tonne of rubbish each year – totalling some 27 million tonnes nationwide. (Packaging alone comprises a quarter of all the rubbish placed in the bins). Over 80% of household waste can be recycled, reused or composted, but currently only around 27% is, with the rest either being incinerated or landfilled! (This puts us a long way behind many of our European neighbours who recycle well over 50% of their domestic waste). Europe has set UK industry the target of recovering 60% of all its packaging waste (approx. 5.5 million tonnes) by 2008. Clearly we all have an important role to play in reducing waste.

What You Can Do
Wherever possible, try to reduce the amount of rubbish created. The most efficient form of recycling is simply to
re-use packaging material such as cartons, boxes, bubble-wrap and other protective packaging. Where that isn’t feasible, then plan to recycle your waste materials. This will call for the separation of waste into basic materials e.g. paper, card, glass, cans. Many local authorities now arrange kerbside collections for card and paper and provide community recycling banks for glass and steel/aluminium cans. There are now over 20,000 bottle bank sites in the UK resulting in some 425,000 tonnes of glass being recycled annually. (Contact your local authority’s recycling officer for details of local recycling services).

Useful Websites
www.recycle-more.co.uk
www.environment-agency.gov.uk

Environmental Policy Click Here

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Registered Office: Burley House, Bradford Road, Burley-in-Wharfedale, West Yorkshire, LS29 7DZ.