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What happens to everything that goes into your recycling bin?

Posted on May 15, 2012 by recycleboy

We do get a lot of enquiries about what happens to everything that goes into the recycling bins in Lewisham. Whilst we take great efforts to explain what happens to all the materials that go into the recycling bins, there are some people that aren’t convinced that a mechanised process can deal with sifting and [...]

Filed under: Cardboard, MRF, Paper, plastic bottles, recycling, Tetra-paks | Tagged: Bywaters, Bywaters (Leyton) Ltd, cardboard recycling, cardboard sorting, hand sorting, materials recycling facility, mechanised sorting, mixed plastics, Mixed plastics recycling, MRF, MRF video, MRF visit, plastic bottle sorting, Recycling, Tetra Pak recycling, Tetra Paks | Leave a Comment »

Green Recycling Estates Bags For Flats

Posted on November 25, 2011 by recycleboy

Earlier this year, the Council were successful in a bid to the London Waste and Recycling Board (LWARB) and secured funding to purchase 20,000 green recycling estates bags (GREB’s). With the 10,000 GREBS that the Council bought earlier in the year, this means that there will be 30,000 bags available for the delivery to all [...]

Filed under: Cardboard, community engagement, Environmental Campaigns, MRF, Paper, plastic bottles, recycling, Tetra-paks, Textiles | Tagged: Affinity Sutton, cardboard recycling, estates bins, estates recycling, GREB's, Green Recycling Estates Bags, Hyde Housing, L & Q, Lewisham Homes, London & Quadrant, London Waste and Recycling Board, LWARB, Phoenix Community Housing, Pinnacle, Recycling, recycling bags, Recycling in Lewisham, recycling on estates | 4 Comments »

Act locally to help globally!

Posted on October 12, 2011 by recycleboy

Sunday 2nd October was a very different kind of Sunday for David Brinson, a member of Lewisham Council’s Recycling Team. He would usually spend the morning at home with his wife, instead he spent it at St John with Holy Trinity Church in St. John’s Vale, SE8. He was lucky enough to have the opportunity to [...]

Filed under: community engagement, recycling, Uncategorized, ward assembly | Tagged: Church, community engagement, David Brinson, Lewisham Council, Recycling, SE8, St John with Holy Trinity Church in St. John's Vale | Leave a Comment »

WEEE Man trims down WEEE waste during WEEE Week

Posted on October 4, 2011 by recycleboy

WEEE Week ran from September 24th through to October 1st, 2011. In the build up to this event, Lewisham Council called upon the services of its new superhero WEEE Man, who came along to raise awareness and the profile of this type of waste. The Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment Directive (WEEE Directive) was introduced [...]

Filed under: Batteries, community engagement, Environmental Campaigns, recycling, reuse, Reuse and Recycling Centre, Schools, Uncategorized, waste minimisation, WEEE | Tagged: All Saints School, Convoys Wharf, Dacres Road Nature Reserve, Dave Brinson, Edmund Waller School, Forster Park School, John Horabin, Kelvin School, Ladywell Fields College School, Landmann Way, Recycling, Repic, Sir Francis Drake School, Skatedog Productions, small appliance banks, Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment, WEEE, WEEE Banks, WEEE man, WEEE waste, WEEE Week | Leave a Comment »

WEEE Man is here to save the World!

Posted on September 13, 2011 by recycleboy

WEEE Week – 26th September to 1st October 2011 For those that have been following us on Twitter and have seen our recent forays into the world of acting, film and promotional work, you should know all about the acronym WEEE. Below is a groundbreaking film about our very own WEEE superhero … WEEE Man. [...]

Filed under: community engagement, Environmental Campaigns, recycling, reuse, Reuse and Recycling Centre, WEEE | Tagged: brockley, Convoys Wharf, David Brinson, deptford, electronic waste, John Horabin, Lewisham Council, Recycling, Waste Electrical and Electronic Equiptment, WEEE, WEEE man | Leave a Comment »

Recycle Week – Textile Recycling

Posted on June 22, 2011 by recycleboy

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 [...]

Filed under: recycling, Textiles | Tagged: recycle for london, recycle now, recycle week, Recycling, textiles | Leave a Comment »

Recycle Week – The ‘R’ Team

Posted on June 21, 2011 by recycleboy

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- [...]

Filed under: community engagement, Environmental Campaigns, recycling, Schools | Tagged: blackheath, deptford, grove park, recycle for london, recycle week, Recycling, Schools, sydenham | Leave a Comment »

Recycle Week

Posted on June 9, 2011 by recycleboy

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 [...]

Filed under: community engagement, light bulbs, recycling, Schools, Textiles | Tagged: light bulbs, recycle for london, recycle now, recycle week, Recycling, reuse and recycle centre, Schools, textiles | Leave a Comment »

Climate Week Winners

Posted on May 16, 2011 by recycleboy

As part of this years Climate Week our sustainability team organised a competition for local school children to design a poster which would end up on the side of a recycling truck. We were overwhelmed with responses and the standard was so high that we chose two winners! Isaac Sackville-Adjei, aged 10 and Saskia Perez-Cooke, [...]

Filed under: recycling | Tagged: blackheath, climate week, john ball primary, Recycling, Schools | 1 Comment »

Supermarkets can now take plastic film for recycling

Posted on April 12, 2011 by recycleboy

One question we often get asked is about recycling carrier bags and film, at the moment in Lewisham we can’t currently accept this type of plastic in our kerbside collection. However there is now another option – Supermarket stores which collect plastic bags for recycling will now accept clean plastic film packaging (such as bread [...]

Filed under: Mixed Plastics, recycling | Tagged: catford, downham, forest hill, lee green, lewisham, mixed plastics, plastic bags, Recycling, sydenham | Leave a Comment »

Do you want to have a “Big Lunch” on your street?

Posted on February 24, 2011 by recycleboy

The Big Lunch aims to get as many people across the country to sit down with their neighbours and share lunch together. You can find out more about the idea behind the Big Lunch on their website. Last year, around 8,000 Big Lunches took place across the UK, with 57 in Lewisham (the most in [...]

Filed under: community engagement, Food waste, street litter, waste minimisation | Tagged: big lunch, love food hate waste, Recycling, waste minimisation | Leave a Comment »

Council Website Down

Posted on February 16, 2011 by recycleboy

Lewisham Council’s website will not be accessable from midnight on Wednesday 16th February until 8am Monday 21st February. This is because the Council is moving its servers to a new data centre. We’re hoping to provide as much information regarding waste and recycling as possible here during this period. There are a list of frequently asked questions [...]

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Why can’t I recycle …. drinking glasses

Posted on February 9, 2011 by recycleboy

As a Local Authority Recycling team, one of the most common questions we get posed is “why can’t I recycle X” … so in the first of a series of blog posting we’re going to answer as many of these questions as we can. The first item we’re going to tackle is drinking glasses – [...]

Filed under: recycling, Uncategorized | Tagged: drinking glasses, Recycling, why can't i recycle | 2 Comments »

Lewisham’s recycling rate gets a mention

Posted on January 14, 2011 by recycleboy

Yesterday Lewisham’s recycling rate was cited on the Guardian Environment Blog so I thought it would be appropriate to provide a response on our own blog (which was also mentioned). The first issue that needs raising is that the blog posting appears to favour incineration as a means of waste disposal, referencing Germany as an [...]

Filed under: Uncategorized, waste minimisation | Tagged: composting, food waste, garden waste, junk mail sticker, love food hate waste, mail preference service, real nappies, Recycling, waste minimisation, waste strategy | Leave a Comment »

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