Reliable, competent and inexpensive.

As an experienced environmental company, we offer you a wide range of ecological services.

Waste avoidance, long-term use, repair and recovery of raw materials are the main corporate strategies of our business areas.

Recycling service

We dispose of old electrical devices of all kinds with the aim of recovering valuable materials, recycling raw materials, repairing devices and obtaining spare parts.

Inexpensive department store

Whether used or new, in our diverse sales range you are guaranteed to find everything for household, living and furnishing, at particularly low prices.

Firewood yard

We provide you with oven-ready cut dry or fresh logs, wood chips and bark mulch from our own production, as well as wood briquettes, wood pellets, kindling etc.

Electrical workshop

We not only repair household appliances such as dishwashers, freezers or coffee machines, but we also offer new and used spare parts. 

Landscaping

With the aim of protecting nature in such a way that the efficiency and functionality of the natural balance is maintained, we also realize your wishes in the garden and landscape.

Biochar

The production and recycling of biochar is a natural type of carbon sink and leads to a reduction in the CO2 content in the atmosphere.

We think ahead!

Regional markets emerge, everyday products are produced sustainably, have a long lifespan and are easy to repair. The throwaway society was yesterday!

Economic sustainability

Waste avoidance, long-term use, repair and recovery of raw materials are the main corporate strategies of the business areas: recycling service, low-cost department store and electrical workshop.

From the region for the region. With the firewood yard, the regionally renewable fuel from the local forests is prepared for combustion and thus replaces oil and gas from distant countries. Wood briquettes are produced on site and sold regionally. The wood pellets are produced in the Sauerland and traded regionally.

The wood fuels (logs, wood briquettes, pellets and wood chips) replace around 2.5 - 3.0 million liters of heating oil every year!

Environmental sustainability

The RU GmbH works in buildings that are predominantly made of wood and insulated with cellulose. The room heating is generated by wood chips, wood pellets and heat recovery.

A rainwater system is operated at the Borken site to ensure that the toilet is flushed and that the flowers are supplied with water over the long term. The roof surface water (2,000 square meters) flows over an open ditch to a natural pond, the overflow leads into a cistern from which the service water is taken.

The roof areas of the various buildings are completely covered with PV modules. On average, 440,000 kWh of electricity are generated and 95,000 kWh consumed annually.

Social sustainability

RU GmbH, as a subsidiary of Forst- und Umweltdienst Schwalm-Eder gGmbH, gives preference to disadvantaged people when it comes to recruiting. Project employees of the non-profit GmbH were and are often taken on as permanent staff at RU GmbH after qualification.

Fairness, honesty and responsible behavior shape our dealings with customers, suppliers and employees.