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. [...]

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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- [...]

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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 [...]

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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, [...]

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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 [...]

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