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Junior Citizens learn all about recycling

Posted on November 7, 2011 by recycleboy

The Council’s recycling team have again been involved in the annual Junior Citizen programme. This year it has been held at the Lee Green Fire Station on Eltham Road and aims to teach children about the dangers of drugs, safety on public transport and talking to strangers amongst many other subjects including recycling and waste. [...]

Filed under: community engagement, Environmental Campaigns, reuse, Schools, Uncategorized | Tagged: Clean and Green, Junior Citizen, Lee Green Fire Station, Recycle, reduce, reuse, School Children, Schools, waste education | Leave a Comment »

The Full Set

Posted on July 6, 2011 by recycleboy

So we’ve finally got our act together and created a REUSE tab for the blog, meaning we can now boast the full complement of reduce, reuse and recycle. The reuse tab is going to act as a directory of local and national businesses who are able to take things that you don’t want or need [...]

Filed under: Bulky reuse, commercial waste, recycling, reuse | Tagged: chairs, computers, cooking oil, furniture, ink cartriadges, mobile phones, old cars, paint, reuse, sofas, tables | 1 Comment »

Textile Thursday

Posted on March 24, 2011 by recycleboy

So it’s the 4th day of climate week and we realised that we had unwittingly released information on Meat free Monday, Telephones on Tuesday and World Water day on Wednesday so we thought the only possible thing we could do was Textile Thursday …. In the UK, approximately 1.5 – 2 million tonnes of textile [...]

Filed under: Textiles | Tagged: climate week, recyclin, reuse, textiles, waste minimisation | Leave a Comment »

Lewisham Schools Christmas Card Competition

Posted on March 17, 2011 by recycleboy

During the post Christmas months (January and February 2010) Lewisham council asked their staff to bring in unwanted and used christmas cards. As a result of this we were able to collect over 10,000 cards – but rather than just recycling these immediately we wanted to push them up the waste hierachy. So we held [...]

Filed under: community engagement, reuse, Schools | Tagged: christmas, christmas card recycling, reuse, Schools, waste hierachy | Leave a Comment »

Climate Week in Lewisham

Posted on March 16, 2011 by recycleboy

Next week is Climate Week – a national occasion that offers an annual renewal of our ambition and confidence to combat climate change. It is for everyone wanting to do their bit to protect our planet and create a secure future. Climate Week will shine a spotlight on the many positive steps already being taken [...]

Filed under: community engagement, composting, Environmental Campaigns, recycling, reuse, waste minimisation | Tagged: carbon, climate week, community garden, composting, love food hate waste, reduce, reuse, waste minimisation | 1 Comment »

Upcycling better than recycling!

Posted on February 22, 2011 by recycleboy

Upcycling (as defined by Wikipedia) is the process of converting waste materials or useless products into new materials or products of better quality or a higher environmental value. This sounds like a great idea – but how does this work in practice? …well a clever blog “bachelor degrees online” have compiled a list of “80 upcycling for [...]

Filed under: recycling, reuse, waste minimisation | Tagged: bulky waste, reuse, tips, upcycling, waste minimisation | 1 Comment »

Love Christmas – Hate Waste

Posted on December 22, 2010 by recycleboy

As Christmas is fast approaching I thought it might be pertinent to do a Christmas related waste post… Without wanting to sound like a scrooge, Christmas is a time of both excessive consumption and waste. Whilst I’m not saying that you shouldn’t have a couple of extra mince pies or give your loved ones presents, [...]

Filed under: Food waste, recycling, waste minimisation | Tagged: christmas, christmas trees, cooking, food storage, food waste, leftovers, love food hate waste, portions, recipes, Recycling, reuse, tips, waste minimisation, wrapping paper | Leave a Comment »

Any old …. IT equipment?

Posted on November 10, 2010 by recycleboy

We (along with the Mayor of Lewisham – Sir Steve Bullock) recently attended an open evening at Eco-Computers new facilty at Pepys Resource Centre on the Deptford Foreshore, and can report that we were very impressed. Eco computer Systems are a local social enterprise that provides an IT Reuse and Recycling service to residents, businessses [...]

Filed under: recycling, reuse, WEEE | Tagged: computers, Eco, IT, laptops, office equipment, phones, Recycling, reuse, WEEE | Leave a Comment »

Plastic bottle tops!

Posted on September 24, 2010 by recycleboy

I’ve just been sent this useful tip for re-using the lids from plastic bottles – it saves them from going in your recycling (where they can be a bit of a pain) and gives them another life, it will also save you from having to buy bag clips …. Make an incision and using a [...]

Filed under: plastic bottles, reuse | Tagged: food waste, plastic bottles, reuse, storage, tips | Leave a Comment »

Bulky Reuse

Posted on September 20, 2010 by recycleboy

We often get asked as a resident what you can do with bulkier items of waste that can’t fit your rubbish bin. We provide a number of options for residents to deal with these items. Reuse in the first instance we would much rather the item you have get’s reused if it’s in a good condition. Even [...]

Filed under: Bulky reuse, reuse, Reuse and Recycling Centre | Tagged: bulky waste, mattresses, reuse, sofas | Leave a Comment »

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