1. Take those foam packing peanuts back to mailing services such as Mailboxes, Etc. which will accept peanut donations, as will most other establishments and businesses that do a lot of shipping. Or, put up a post on Craigs List or the Freecycle Network; someone who is moving soon will surely have a use for them!
Chamber supports local recycling initiative to support children’s hospices
Sheffield Chamber of Commerce is the first Chamber of Commerce to team up
with Parker PR and SR Recycling to offer its members a new free recycling
initiative that will raise funds to support Children’s Hospice’s across the
country.
The initiative, led by Sheffield based PR agency Parker PR will provide
Sheffield Chamber of Commerce members with a collection point at the
Chamber’s Albion House offices for electrical waste material that will then
be recycled by Barnsley based SR Recycling.
For every tonne of material collected SR Recycling will make a substantial
percentage donation which Parker PR will then donate to a local children’s
hospice.
The initiative is the brainchild of Graham Parker of Parker PR who said:
“This is a real win-win-win initiative for Sheffield Chamber members and
businesses in South Yorkshire. Businesses win by having a recycling service
they would normally pay for, the environment wins because SR Recycling can
recycle up to 99% of all material collected and the children win because we
will be helping to provide much needed services at the hospices.
“Our intention is to run this initiative across the north of England with
other Chambers and we are delighted that Sheffield Chamber is launching it
with us.”
SR Recycling will be depositing two of their special collection units in the
car park at the Chamber’s offices on Savile Street from the 27th of July for
one week, during which time Chamber members will be able to deposit old PCs,
printers, kettles etc.
Paul Reeves from Sheffield Chamber welcomed the launch of the initiative in
saying:
“Sheffield Chamber is always looking for new initiatives that help our
members and this one certainly hits the mark. We are fully committed to
helping our members be environmentally conscientious and this new initiative
can only help in doing so. Waste disposal is expensive and landfill is fast
becoming not an option so being able to recycle material in this way is a
fantastic idea and we are delighted to play our part”
Normally SR Recycling would charge for collections of material. Managing
Director of SR Recycling, Simon Robinson said he was forfeiting his charges
to help raise funds for the hospices.
“It’s important to us a business to support our local community. When we
were approached to be part of the initiative we said yes straight away. If
we can encourage more people to recycle and help children in hospices at the
same time then we will do out utmost to help.”
SR Recycling is a specialist recycler that provides a free recycling service
to businesses and organisations looking to dispose of electronic, electrical
and other waste that contains metals. Office materials such as PCs,
telephone systems, microwaves and cookers can all be recycled following
collection. The company also recycles old style TVs and monitors but at a
chargeable rate.
Any Chamber member taking material to the Chamber offices should be aware
that CRT TVs & monitors, fridges & freezers, any batteries other than
lead-acid and fluorescent tubes or other specific bulbs should not be
deposited in the collection points. The specialist manner in which these
have to be recycled means that disposal would have to be charged for, which
would stop any donations being made to the hospices.
Anyone wanting precise information on what can be recycled or who would like
to set up their own recycling collection point with SR Recycling should
contact Graham Parker by email info@parkerpr.com
New York, NY, May 21, 2009 –(PR.com)– The Vyouz Network have now completed their latest upgrade and platform developments which will enhance and accelerate reuse and recycling.
Existing freecyclers and other free use organizations can now use the system to promote and encourage other members of the public to share their unwanted belongings and load them up onto the internet for others to use.
People from many other organizations are joining free to use websites to enhance their ability to reuse as a way of life.
• Donate used equipment through freecycle.org or a2ecycle.org.
Free Furniture
Couches and tables are easy to refurbish and restyle to make your own – and it’s easy to find them for free on your local Craigslist site (www.craigslist.com) or Freecycle (www.freecycle.org) sites, which help people give and get free household items.
Research examining the main components of residual waste - the waste left over after reuse, recycling and composting - has identified the measures needed at local authority, central Government and EU level to increase recycling.
The Friends of the Earth research, published today alongside a briefing for councils, recommends promoting Freecycle and social reuse of furniture, improving facilities for recycling DIY wastes and tightening the law to ensure that more packaging is recycled, amongst other suggestions.
SR Recycling, the electronic, electrical and metal waste recycling
service that claims to recycle over 99% of all waste it collects
delivered its very first “Green Box” to the UK Steel Enterprise owned
Innovation Centre in Sheffield – collecting half a ton of waste in the
process!
Barnsley based SR Recycling is building strong links with business
centres and managed workspaces. It can then simultaneously assist as
many businesses as possible by removing their waste materials in regular
collections. In most cases this is done absolutely free of charge.
SR Recycling Managing Director, Simon Robinson says their Green Boxes
are the perfect solution where businesses are clustered together.
“Smaller businesses produce smaller amounts of waste on a regular basis,
which makes collecting it uneconomic and environmentally unsound. Our
Green Boxes mean a number of businesses in one place can easily dispose
of their waste; it’s a simple and effective idea that we believe will
work in business centres and managed workspaces,” said Simon Robinson.
It was only when SR Recycling dropped off the Green Box at The
Innovation Centre that UK Steel Enterprise realised that it had over
half a ton of waste material which could be collected immediately. Once
the waste was loaded, the Green Box was put in place, ready to use by
tenants. It will be collected and exchanged on a regular basis each time
it is full.
Innovation Centre Manager Allan Wood is convinced that SR Recycling’s
Green Box will be a big hit with the Centre’s tenants. “We have a strong
recycling ethic at The Innovation Centre, which is a key factor in
attracting businesses. This new facility will be of great benefit to our
tenants, complementing our existing recycling initiatives, helping to
set the benchmark as a forward thinking managed workspace,” said Allan
Wood
The Innovation Centre is home to 28 different companies employing over
140 people in a wide range of business activities and currently has
space for new tenants. It is also the regional base of UK Steel
Enterprise, which supports innovation and growth by providing finance to
businesses in former steel industry areas.
To celebrate companies that are providing consumers with the opportunity to make a difference, greencrier.com will This week’s company is the Arizona-based- www.freecycle.org , a nonprofit gifting movement enabling individuals to gift items in their local communities rather than to throw them away, a movement that is keeping over 400 tons out of landfills daily. This week’s product is Nalgene reusable water bottles which help to combat the statistic that eight out of very 10 water bottles end up in the trash not in the recycling bin.
* Pick up sewing machines on freecycle.org or eBay, buy thread in charity shops, and try car-boot sales for any other equipment.
[prMac.com] Seattle, WA - Black Pixel Luminance announces updates and two new plugins for Agent Craig, the internet search agent for OS X Leopard. Agent Craig, which already provides automated background searches of Craig’s List and Ebay, now adds Freecycle groups to the list of sites available to tech savvy bargain hunters. In addition, a new patent search plugin allows for extensive intellectual property research campaigns via the US Patent office website.
The first follows in the “bargain hunters” theme of the core application, and adds background searches targeting the sites in the Freecycle network (hosted by Yahoo! Groups).
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