Donations were received from 39 people (the highest number so far!) at Broadstone Win on Waste on Saturday 3 June. Their items are now helping 5 good causes.   Another two large sacks of milk bottle tops were also donated by people who attend the local gym.  These benefit charity Gift of Sight.

Southbourne 20 May – Close Knit Yarn Cafe 10-11

See Broadstone, plus corks, baby food pouches, unwanted keys and padlocks.

Westbourne – 10-11 Westbourne Library 27 May

As below plus buttons and unwanted keys and padlocks.

West Howe – Henry Brown Youth Centre 2-4 – 27 May

As Canford Heath, plus corks, unwanted keys and padlocks, printer ink cartridges

Broadstone 10-11 Broadstone Library – 3 June

• Aerosol deodorant cans (Ideas2Action)
• Milk bottle tops (Gift of Sight)
• Biscuit wrappers (Ideas2Action)
• Stamps (Forest Holme Hospice)
• Tassimo coffee discs and packaging (Poole Hospital Scanner Appeal)
• Cleaning product items – pumps, sprays, washing up liquid tops, disinfectant wipe packets (Ideas2Action)

Canford Heath 10-11 Coffee House Cafe and Creekmoor – Creekmoor Library 11.30-12.30 – 10 June

• All brands and sizes of air freshener packaging – plastic bits (for us)
• All brands and sizes of plastic air fresheners and air freshener cartridges (for us)
• Aerosol deodorant cans (for us)
• Tassimo coffee discs & packaging (Poole Hospital Scanner Appeal)
• Milk bottle tops (Gift of Sight)
• Biscuit wrappers (for us!)
• Newspapers/magazines/junk mail (Dorset Community Foundation)
• Stamps (Forest Holme Hospice)
• Cleaning product items (for us)
• CD’s – for arts project
• Tobacco pouches and silver paper and cellophane from cigarette packets

Please don’t throw the foil from your Easter eggs away.  Flatten it and drop it off at any of our Win on Waste sessions after Easter:

Saturday 22 April: Canford Heath 10-11am Coffee House Cafe, Adastral Square, Creekmoor 11.30am-12.30pm Creekmoor Library, Southbourne 10-11am Close Knit Yarn Cafe.

Saturday 29 April: Westbourne 10-11am Westbourne Library and West Howe 2-4pm Henry Brown Youth Centre.

Saturday 6 May: Broadstone 10-11am Broadstone Library.

This latest Win on Waste project, Broadstone Win on Waste is being run by Vikki Slade.  The session on the 4th February held in Broadstone Library  proved to be popular, with 16 people either donating or making enquiries about donating at a future session.  Milk bottle tops were the most popular item donated (3 carrier bags). Other donations included 1/2 carrier bag of stamps, two bags of glass jars, one bag of Tassimo discs and three jigsaw puzzles.  All the items are being donated to support good causes.  The date of the next session is the 4th March from 10-11am at Broadstone Library.

Vikki pictured second from the left with other keen Broadstone recyclers.

Broadstone Win on Waste launches at Broadstone Library on Saturday 4 February between 10 and 11am.  This, our third current Win on Waste project in Poole is being run by Vikki Slade.  Broadstone residents can save and donate any of the following items: any type of wrapping paper, rolls of wallpaper, aerosol deodorant cans, Tassimo coffee discs & packaging, milk bottle tops,  sweet biscuit wrappers, postage stamps and cleaning product items (empty disinfectant wipe packets, washing up liquid tops, sprays and pumps).