For all the details on our inaugural Recycling Awards on 16 September please see Recycling Awards under Projects.

We saw 23 donors at our Win on Waste session on Saturday 17 September.  As it was Recycle Week there was a prize for the person donating the most items.  This was won by Trevor and Lorraine Muddimer.  Well done to them.  Items donated (in carrier bags) included beer bottle tops (1), Tassimo discs (2), milk bottle tops (6), biscuit wrappers (2), newspapers (26), stamps (1), cleaning products (2) and CDs’ (1).  Five organisations are benefitting from the items as well as two artists who are using the beer bottle tops and CDs for arts projects.  The date of the next session is 15 October.

As it was Recycle Week, donors at the Win on Waste session in Creekmoor Library on Saturday 17 September  had the opportunity to stay for tea and cake.  Twenty donors took part bringing along (in carrier bags) Tassimo discs (1) milk bottle tops (3), biscuit wrappers (1), newspapers (15), stamps (1), items from cleaning products (1/2) plus vintage crockery wanted for a tea dance and some toiletries.  The next session is the 15 October.

We’re looking forward to the start of Recycle Week, especially as our inaugural Recycling Awards event takes place on Friday 16th. Certificates will be presented to individuals and organisations who make a big difference when it comes to cutting down on waste and recycling.  There will also be presentations and films.

On Saturday 17th we are running three Win-on-Waste sessions in: Canford Heath, Creekmoor and for the first time, in Southbourne which is being co-ordinated by one of our wonderful Recycling Ambassadors, Sarah.  Win on Waste sessions offer residents the opportunity to save specific items from their rubbish/recycling each month and donate them at given venues.  If you would like to take part in any of the sessions please contact Monique for further details: 07771 705662.

Throughout the week, Branksome Library will be hosting a collection box for library visitors to drop off any biscuit wrappers or cleaning product items such as washing-up liquid tops, sprays, pumps and disinfectant wipe packets.  All these will be crushed up and made into new plastic. The money raised will help us with our fundraising.

A massive total of 52 carrier bags of waste items were donated by 45 Canford Heath and Creekmoor residents on Saturday 20 August during Win on Waste sessions held in Creekmoor Library and the Coffee House Café in Adastral Square, Canford Heath.  There were also smaller amounts of ring pulls, sweet wrappers, stamps and CD’s.  Six organisations will benefit from the donations.

Win on Waste – Creekmoor

We are delighted to announce that we’ve just heard that we’ve won a Green Apple Award for Environmental Best Practice 2016 for our Win on Waste – Canford Heath project.  We won’t know whether we’ve won a gold, silver or bronze award until the winners are announced at a presentation to be held at The Houses of Parliament on Friday 11 November 2016.

We’re thrilled to announce that Sarah Selby one of our wonderful Recycling Ambassadors is launching the first Win on Waste project in Bournemouth during Recycle Week.  The new Win on Waste sessions will be held in Southbourne and residents will have the opportunity to save items and take them to Southbourne Library.  It starts on Saturday 17 September between 10 and 11am and after that sessions will be held monthly at the library.  Items being collected for the first donation include: corks (bottle) not plastic or mushroom shaped, jewellery – broken (odd beads, chains etc.), Tassimo coffee discs (any size of Tassimo T-DISC), baby food pouches (any brand), biscuit wrappers (any brand of sweet biscuit), air freshener and home care waste (plastic bottle caps eg washing up liquid, plastic trigger heads, sprays and packaging from disinfectant wipes).

On Thursday 4 August, Sarah Neame from LV’s Bournemouth Regional Community Committee hands Monique the mobile phones and keys that LV staff kindly donated for good causes.  The keys have been given to Carter Shaw who will sell them and donate the money to Routes to Roots.  The mobile phones will be given to local charities who have requested them to help with their fundraising.

Happy Faces all round as our Trustees and Recycling Ambassadors got together at the Sloop in Poole on Monday 1 August.

(l-r: Shaun, Chris, Monique, Sarah, Barbara, Laura, Jo and Nick)

Forty people donated the following items on Saturday 9 July in Creekmoor and Canford Heath.  Eight organisations will benefit from receiving them.

(Numbers = carrier bags). Kitchen rolls 5, postcards 1, milk bottle tops 13, biscuit wrappers 3, newspapers/junk mail/magazines 14, CD’s 1/2, plastic bottles 2 and cleaning product items 1/2.  In addition there was a small selection of stamps and two bags of toiletries.

The date of the next donation day is 20 August.