Dreaming of a Green Christmas

Posted on December 12, 2011 by recycleboy

Recycle for Lewisham have put together some tips and hints on how you can have a great Christmas and be good to the environment. This will of course involve the 3 R’s of Reduce, Reuse and Recycle. There are many aspects of green thinking to consider when it comes to Christmas. For example, where to [...]

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‘Celebrity’ European Week of Waste Reduction

Posted on November 14, 2011 by recycleboy

Whilst it might not be the most glamorous and exciting name for a week that aims to raise awareness about waste, this year we are at least bringing some celebrity to Lewisham High Street. On the 21st November, Richard Fox, TV chef and beer expert will be giving a demonstration of his cooking skills and [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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, [...]

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Love Food Hate Waste

Posted on September 10, 2010 by recycleboy

Lewisham Council are putting on some free Love Food Hate Waste workshops … What’s it all about? Love Food Hate Waste is the ‘Waste Not Want Not’ of the modern day, providing handy tips, advice and recipes for leftovers to help everyone waste less food. Why? 8.3 million tonnes of food is thrown away by households in [...]

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Get Composting …

Posted on May 17, 2010 by recycleboy

Lewisham Council is putting on free composting workshops for residents. A local resident who attended one of Lewisham’s composting workshops gave us some feedback on the session,  if the sessions are this good surely you have to give it a go …  “What a useful and interesting way to spend a Sunday morning! The style of the [...]

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Does recycling make us green?

Posted on March 16, 2010 by recycleboy

I noticed an interesting article on George Mombiot’s Blog on the Guardian website which discusses how taking relatively small actions such as recycling tin cans allow people to overlook the bigger actions such as driving the car when public transport will do! Recycling everything in the green bin often acts as a green badge of [...]

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Compost your food and Garden Waste

Posted on January 8, 2010 by recycleboy

Composting is an inexpensive, natural process that transforms your kitchen and garden waste into a valuable and nutrient rich food for your garden. It’s even More inexpensive in Lewisham because we offer FREE COMPOST BINS to all of our residents, just email recycle@lewisham.gov.uk ,let us know your address and we’ll get one dropped round. Even for households [...]

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Stop Junk Mail

Posted on January 8, 2010 by recycleboy

People can get snowed under with the amount of junk mail pushed through their letterboxes, junk mail is often unsolicited and a huge waste of paper. There are however a number of things you can do to reduce it… Junk Mail Sticker We have created some “no junk mail” stickers which you can fit on [...]

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