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.

We will be holding our inaugural Recycling Awards Event on Friday 16 September and we’re looking for nominations.  We have met and heard of so many people who go that extra mile when it comes to recycling that we’d like to recognise them.  So if you know of anyone who loves recycling, you have until 10 August to nominate them.  The form and further details are available on the Recycling Awards (see Projects) page of our website.

Fifteen people donated the following items for good causes on 18 June.  Amounts in carrier bags were: greetings cards 1, corks 1/8th, milk bottle tops 2, biscuit wrappers 1, newspapers 15, stamps 1/2, cleaning products 1 and buttons 1.   All these will be distributed amongst seven organisations.  

28 people donated items at the Win on Waste session in the Coffee Shop Café on Canford Heath on Saturday 18 June. Items included (in carrier bags): greetings cards 3, corks 1, milk bottle tops 11, biscuit wrappers 2, newspapers 10, stamps 1/2  and cleaning products 1.  In addition two large bags of material and one of wool was donated.  Items will be distributed amongst seven organisations.

Members of Parkstone Evening Townswomen’s Guild show off some of the donations made at their meeting on 9 June when Monique spoke about our projects.  Donations included egg boxes, stamps, greetings cards, corks and bottle tops.  Following Monique’s talk the group plan to continue to save and donate items on a regular basis.

On 23 May four kind volunteers took part in a timed exercise to find properties with the aim of showing the importance of having visible numbers to aid emergency services.  Working in pairs, two found the property and put a more visible number on it and the second pair had to find it.  The volunteers found one property two minutes quicker when a more visible number was added.  In another road it took them 1 minute 35 seconds quicker to find a property, rather than one without any numbers at all!  This was in daylight, it would take even longer to find these properties in the dark.  The minutes may seem small, but to someone who needs urgent medical attention, they could be the most important minutes of their life.