Guarding the donations at the launch of Merley Win on Waste!   Seven people donated items at the Lantern Church at the first Merley Win on Waste on 16 June with 8 good causes benefitting.

Corfe Mullen Win on Waste on 9 June at Corfe Mullen Library received donations from 13 households and in total these will be helping 9 good causes including 11 bags of plastic items.

Does your charity or voluntary organisation need anything that people may be throwing away? For example for your fundraising (mobile phones, printer ink cartridges) or service delivery (craft items like corks or yoghurt pots)?   If so you may like a free entry in a new recycling directory we are producing on behalf of Dorset Waste Partnership called We Need That – Dorset.  Entries are welcome from any not-for-profit organisations based or working in the Dorset Waste Partnership area.  Individuals who will use the items for their own use or to sell and donate the profits to a not-for-profit organisation are also welcome in the directory.  See Projects/We Need That-Dorset for more information.

Kinson Win on Waste which started on 30 June at Kinson Library, received items from 48 people which will help 12 good causes.  The largest number of bags (10) were of milk bottle tops, followed by 6 bags of newspapers.

Pop along to one of our three Win on Waste sessions on Saturday 7 July and help good causes with items from your waste:

Broadstone – 10-11 Broadstone Library

Hamworthy 11-12 Hamworthy Library

Wimborne 10.30-12 Wimborne Library

Bring any of the following items….. Lolly sticks—clean, wooden ones (St Aldhelm’s Toddler Group),  Tassimo coffee discs & packaging + coffee jar lids, L’OR coffee pods and Kenco refill packets (Poole Hospital Scanner Appeal), Fruit nets (Dorset Scrapstore), Corks (Dorset Scrapstore), Aluminium foil (Poole Methodists),Ring pulls from drinks cans (Purple Community Fund), All empty packaging of any make of beauty products including roll on deodorants, facial wipe packets, moisturiser, cleanser (Ideas2Action), Stamps (Naomi House Hospice), Milk bottle tops (Gift of Sight/Priest House Museum), Biscuit wrappers—sweet and savoury biscuits (Ideas2Action), Dried up ballpoint pens, felt tips, highlighters, board markers, mechanical pencils, permanent markers, bingo pens, correction tape containers  or empty Tippex bottles (research into childhood brain tumours),Cleaning product items: pumps, sprays, disinfectant wipe packets+ personal wipe packets (e.g. Andrex) and washing up liquid tops (Ideas2Action).

Thanks to the kind donations received from people who attend Win on Waste sessions, we were able to hand over 9 kilos of keys and padlocks to George of Carter Shaw Estate Agents on 15 June.  The keys will be sold and the money given to Routes to Roots, a Poole-based charity supporting homeless people.

Merley Win on Waste launches on Saturday 16 June at the Lantern Church.  This is the latest to join our Win on Waste network and brings the total of sessions each month to 13.

Point2Point Transport Ltd collected the equivalent of 86 carrier bags of used Tassimo coffee discs on 12 June which had been donated at Win on Waste sessions.  The discs will be sent to Terracycle for recycling and points awarded to Point2Point who donate them to two local hospitals,