An amazing 75 people saved and donated carrier bags of their waste to help good causes at our three Win on Waste sessions held on Saturday 19 November.  Here are some smiling faces and bags of donations at the Win on Waste – Creekmoor session held at Creekmoor Library.  Thanks to staff and to Galaxy for donating jars of hot chocolate which donors enjoyed drinking.

Instead of throwing away your used aerosol deodorant cans we’d like you to donate them.  Drop them in the box at Rossmore Leisure Centre, Herbert Avenue, Poole (pictured) or take them to any Win on Waste session. Kinson (Pelhams Leisure Park) Saturday 3 December 10.30-noon.  Canford Heath (Coffee House Cafe, Adastral Square) Saturday 19 November and 10 December (10-11).  Creekmoor (Creekmoor Library) 19 November and 10 December 11.30-12.30.  Southbourne (Southbourne Library) Saturday 19 November and 17 December (10-11).  The cans will be recycled and turned into community gym equipment.

Happy faces showing off some of the items donated at the launch of Win on Waste – Kinson on Saturday 5th November at Pelhams Leisure Centre.  Led by Laura (far left) one of our wonderful Ambassadors, we’re hoping that local residents will soon be flocking to the Leisure Centre once a month with items they have saved from their waste and which will ultimately benefit good causes and arts projects.

Ideas2Action was three years old on the 31 October and here are the trustees, Nick, Jo, Chris and Shaun celebrating at the AGM on the 1st November.

Win on Waste Canford Heath just keeps growing with 40 people donating on Saturday 15 October at the Coffee House Cafe, Adastral Square. Items helped six good causes including ourselves.  Totals in carrier bags were: biscuit wrappers (2), Christmas decorations (6), newspapers/magazines/junk mail (13), aerosol deodorant cans (1/2), Tassimo coffee discs (4), milk bottle tops (13), stamps (1), cleaning product items (1) amd a bag of brown paper and a small bag of corks.

One of our wonderful Recycling Ambassadors, Laura Cousins, ran a Win on Waste taster session on Saturday 8 October at Pelhams Leisure Centre in Kinson with the idea of showing local people the type of items they can save from their rubbish ready to donate at the launch of Win on Waste – Kinson on 5 November.

Laura and our latest Recycling Ambassador Simon with some of the  items on display.

We visited Lilliput Sea Scouts, Beavers group on 6 October with the aim of showing the boys what they can do with some items from their waste.  Biscuit wrappers for instance. Instead of throwing them in the bin they can be donated to us and we organise for them to be sent off and turned into new plastic.  They created their own Munchy Monster Mouths from old wallpaper and various craft materials, before voting on the two they thought the best.  Then thanks to the help of two Mums, they had an exciting game of running up and down the hall in two teams to feed the monster mouths with biscuit wrappers.  The final score was a draw so each team won a packet of biscuits.

Beavers busy using their imaginations to create monster mouths.

In spite of all the tempting bargains on offer at New to You in Cabot Lane, we did have interest from the public about our projects on Saturday 1 October.  With rubbish bins only being collected once a fortnight now in Poole, we aimed to show people that they can slim their bins and help a good cause at the same time. 

The Big Green Show held on 20 September at the Hilton Hotel in Southampton was a huge success.  We had 27 visitors to our stand and there was lots of interest in our projects.  Looking forward to next year now!

 Employees from Brittany Ferries taking an interest in how they can recycle more.

Our first Win on Waste project in Bournemouth, Southbourne Win-on-Waste was launched at Southbourne Library on Saturday 17 September.  Co-ordinated by Sarah one of our Recycling Ambassadors, the following items were donated by local residents: milk bottle tops, stamps, Tassimo discs, biscuit wrappers, jewellery, corks, baby food pouches, yoghurt pots and cleaning product items.  Eight good causes will benefit from receiving the items.

L-R : Lyndsey – Southbourne Food Assembly, Tracy – Southbourne Library Manager, Sarah – Ideas2Action and Linda a local resident.