Many people don’t realise that along with the obvious environmental benefits of recycling there are also significant cost savings associated with putting materials in your recycling bin as opposed to your refuse bin. It currently costs Lewisham roughly 1.5 times more to dispose of waste than to recycle your waste. This adds up to £250,000 [...]
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Following a succesful trial in Brockley and Telegraph Hill wards, you can now recycle textiles from your doorstep wherever you live in Lewisham. The process is extremely easy, but it is a bookable service – so please don’t leave piles of clothes outside your house! Here’s what you need to do … 1. Pick up [...]
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We recently ran a competition to find Lewisham’s “Recycling Superhero” we posted letters to all Year 5 school children in Lewisham. Children were asked to write in no more than 100 words why they should “be a hero” there was such a good response (over 60 children entered) that we decided to create the “R- [...]
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20th – 24th June is Recycle Week 2011, we’ll be running a series of blogs highlighting a couple of initiatives that we will be launching during the week. Keep your eyes peeled for more information about the borough wide textiles collection and lightbulb recycling points. We’ve also launched a competition to find a team of [...]
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The Mayor of London has recently published his Municipal Waste Management Strategy for public consultation. He is keen to get the views of as many Londoners as possible on this strategy, as the public are essential to delivering higher recycling, reduced waste and more reuse. The Mayor wants London to become a world leader [...]
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