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Here are the most recent records for users in Suffolk - click on the bold text for full details:
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Invitation to attend Suffolk County Reuse and Recycling Network Workshops!
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Suffolk County Council are looking for groups within the community and voluntary sector interested in applying for Grants as part of the Suffolk Reuse and Recycling Grant scheme. The scheme is open to groups who currently work with or would like to start working on Recycling and Reuse within the Suffolk area.
Does your Group divert waste from landfill? Do you reuse items that would normally be scrapped? Can you offer volunteering, training or employment opportunities to people disadvantaged in the workplace?
If the answer is yes you could be able to apply for a grant of up to £25,000!
Workshops have been arranged for interested parties:
14th October 2009 – Ipswich Town Football Club, Ipswich 1.30pm-3.30pm
19th October 2009 – Orbis Energy Centre, Lowestoft 10.00am – 12.30 pm
23rd October 2009 – Athenaeum, Bury St. Edmunds 10.00am – 12.30pm
For more information or to book onto the workshops, then please contact
Jayne Vaughan on 01473 581725 – jayne.vaughan@suffolk.gov.uk |
| [ Notice submitted by ANDY WALKER on 23/09/2009 ] |
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 | AN UNUSUAL USE FOR FILING CABINETS!
Article submitted by GAVIN HULL, OXFORDSHIRE COUNTY COUNCIL, on 10/03/2010 |
| AN UNUSUAL USE FOR FILING CABINETS!
Herbiseed, a company Martin Parham founded over 25 years ago is a specialist grower of unusual seeds and plants. The small family business grows seeds of several hundred types of plants and sells mostly wildflowers for landscaping and weeds for agricultural research.
Martin explains: “For me it didn’t matter whether the filing cabinets were old or new, whether the colours matched or even if the locks worked, they just needed to have one important feature: to be mouse proof! We spend a season growing the seeds and keep stocks in flood proof storage but in an agricultural environment mice can eat their way through thousands of pounds worth of seeds. It’s simple, but an old filing cabinet is the perfect way for us to protect our stock.
The Retrader website was a perfect way for me to get hold of more filing cabinets at a time when we were expanding our storeroom. I’d recommend the site to any businesses: you never know what your old stuff might be used for!”
[ Article submitted by GAVIN HULL, OXFORDSHIRE COUNTY COUNCIL, on 10/03/2010 ] |
 | RE-USE SHOWCASE EVENT -- FREE OFFICE FURNITURE
Article submitted by GAVIN HULL, OXFORDSHIRE COUNTY COUNCIL, on 18/02/2010 |
| RE-USE SHOWCASE EVENT -- FREE OFFICE FURNITURE
To celebrate the launch of the website Oxfordshire County Council is hosting a one-off re-use showcase at Macclesfield House, 26th February 10am to 12pm with lunch and networking to follow.
You’ll be able to participate in a short re-use workshop, hosted by the National Industrial Symbiosis Programme (NISP) where you’ll learn about the financial, social and environmental benefits your business can realise through materials re-use.
Places are limited so if you would like to attend the showcase event please contact me at on 01865 328782 or e-mail gavin.hull@oxfordshire.gov.uk
[ Article submitted by GAVIN HULL, OXFORDSHIRE COUNTY COUNCIL, on 18/02/2010 ] |
| FREE OFFICE FURNITURE - LONDON!
Article submitted by KIM COLEY, PETERBOROUGH ENVIRONMENT CITY TRUST, on 26/01/2010 |
| FREE OFFICE FURNITURE - LONDON!
Southwark Council has cleared several buildings to sell and is offering the left-over furniture FREE to voluntary and community groups to enable it to be reused. This office furniture includes desks, chairs and cupboards, of various styles. They have at least 300 desks and chairs! Most desks are either 1600mm or 1800mm wide with a maximum depth of 1200mm. Please remember to measure the maximum width of the area you have for the desk or cupboard to fit into. The chairs are all fully functional office chairs on wheel bases, some with arms and others without. To arrange a viewing appointment please email: nicola.parker@southwark.gov.uk. Viewing dates will be Monday 25–Wednesday 27 January, when your details will be placed on the furniture you have chosen. There will then be two collection days, Thursday 28 and Friday 29 January. Porters will bring your furniture to the front entrance of the buildings, where you will be able to take it away.
[ Article submitted by KIM COLEY, PETERBOROUGH ENVIRONMENT CITY TRUST, on 26/01/2010 ] |
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Who's been using Eastex?
There are now 10,376 Eastex members right across eastern England. Here's who's been using Eastex the most. Rankings are based only upon exchanges that we have been notified of, so please contact us if you have made an exchange: |
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Top five Eastex exchangers: |
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J & S GARDENING AND HANDYMAN SERVICES
Cambridgeshire |
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JOHN LEWIS PLC (PETERBOROUGH BRANCH)
Cambridgeshire |
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BTCV
South Yorkshire |
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PINEAPPLE STORE
Norfolk |
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SONJA DRILLER
West Yorkshire |
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PECT
Cambridgeshire |
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C. PLUMB & SONS (HATFIELD) LTD
South Yorkshire |
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HM PRISON BLUNDESTON
Suffolk |
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HERBISEED
Oxfordshire |
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BONUSPRINT
Hertfordshire |
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