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Greenlink Berkshire
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The network of community groups committed to the care of the environment, greener living and development of the local economy in Berkshire. |
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 Recycling
For advice and information on Recycling visit the one-stop shop information centre
www.recycle-more.co.uk which includes a search facility for your nearest
recycling centres.
For information on community waste management visit the Community Recycling
Network at www.crn.org.uk
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Blankets and Linen |
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animal hospitals always need clean sheets, towels, blankets and bed linen
for their patients. Also old newspapers and cleaning equipment. They can
often make use of other items as well including baby foods and unwanted
presents or knick knacks suitable for sale or raffles. Check out
Wildlife Rescue or contact a local vet who may be able to help.
Donations also welcome at Battersea
Dogs and Cats Home, Priest Hill,
Old Windsor, SL4 2JN Tel: 01784 432929. |
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Computers & printers |
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Computers For Charities is
a non-profit making project launched in June 2000 by Computer Shopper Magazine
as a means of using modern e-commerce business to benefit UK charities. This
web-based initiative works with the co-operation of its sponsors who have agreed
to donate computer and IT equipment on trust for various UK charities.
Digital Links International
is a registered charity providing a comprehensive IT disposal service for UK
companies, including collection and guaranteed data erasure. PCs are used to
provide improved educational opportunities for young people in developing
countries. Address: 3rd Floor, Downstream Building, 1 London Bridge, London, SE1
9BG. Tel: 0207 785 6261. Email:
reuse@digital-links.org
Computer Salvage Specialists, Unit 5, Arnhem
Road, Bone Lane Industrial Estate, Newbury RG14 5RU Tel 01635 552666 provide a
recycling service to industry for all types of electronic waste, eg printer
circuit boards, solder reclaim, special waste etc.
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Christmas Cards and Trees |
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Check in your local papers to find out the
collecting points for Christmas cards. Many shops and Post Offices provide bins
for unwanted Christmas cards during January and February. Similarly take your
discarded tree to a civic amenity site for composting. |
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Furniture |
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Slough Furniture
Project will collect your unwanted furniture and household goods and make
them available to people on benefit at affordable prices. Outlets are at Unit
1a, Wentworth Industrial Estate, Goodwin Road, Britwell and at 234 Trelawney
Avenue Shopping Parade, Langley. If you have something to donate please
telephone 01753 692535. Thames
Valley Hospice Furniture Mart will
collect furniture and household appliances in the Maidenhead and Slough area.
They have a shop at 22 Church Street, Herschel Industrial Estate, Slough open
Monday - Saturday, 9.30 am - 5 pm. Tel: 01753 866303 to arrange collection.
In West Berkshire contact the
Community
Furniture Project which operates in the Newbury area.
For office furniture see
Business. |
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Mobile Phones |
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Recycling Appeal
collects mobile phones, PDAs and printer cartridges for reuse and recycling,
raising funds and helping the environment.
Thames Valley and Chiltern Air Ambulance
will take your old mobile phones which
are sent on to developing countries. They will also take toner cartridges which
will be refilled and recycled. The Air Ambulance raises about ?50 a month from
used mobile phones and up to ?500 for toner cartridges which pays for fuel for
the service.
Phone Stevie Horton on 01628 584210 to arrange
collection (a minimum of 10 items is needed) or take to the Air Ambulance
headquarters at Grove Park Estate, White Waltham, near Maidenhead, tel 01189
365612.
Phones for Africa
funded two projects that help the poor make a living in Tanzania. Further
details of the projects at
www.cookfood.net/phonesforafrica
A similar scheme is operated by
Oxfam,
raising an average of ?5 for the charity with each phone. The phones are
recycled in an environmentally friendly manner and money raised goes to help
Oxfam fight poverty through projects across the world. Details can be found at
http://www.oxfam.org.uk/what_you_can_do/recycle/phones.htm |
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Nappies |
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Nappy Tales
Deliver freshly laundered nappies to your
door each week, at the same time collecting the dirties for laundering. Nappy
Tales' nappies are laundered professionally to strict hospital sterilisation
standards. We can wash up to five nappies for the same amount of energy and with
far fewer chemicals than it takes to manufacture just one disposable nappy.
Contact Gina Elboth at
www.nappytales.freeserve.co.uk
Miranda Stamp
provides a free information service for washable nappies, and have lots of
samples, information and so on, so that mums & mum-to-be can see and feel
nappies with no obligation to buy. Carry information on Nappy Tales laundering
service (so mums can see and feel their products too). Available to talk to
antenatal groups, NCT groups etc. Campaign to persuade more mums to use
washables. Independent supplier of several brands of cloth nappies. See website
www.twinkleontheweb.co.uk for
lots of information about choosing and using cloth nappies, plus online shop for
all major brands.
Nappy Adventures
provides advice and a full cloth nappy hire
service. More information at
www.nappyadventures.co.uk
Rayne Vezir runs a weekly drop-in session
every Friday between 1.30 pm and 2.30 pm at Parish Centre, All Saints Church,
Boyn Hill Road, Maidenhead for parents who want to find out more about cloth
nappies. Contact: e-mail nurrayne@hotmail.com or tel 07940 384 582 |
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Polythene Wrappers |
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Polyprint Mailing Films
will accept printed and unprinted polythene wrappers and bags for recycling from
which all labels, sellotape, sticky residue and foreign objects have been
removed. It takes approximately 200,000 polythene wrappers to make one tonne of
recyclable waste which is turned into black plastic bin liners and fertiliser
sacks.
For further details of this scheme click below
or contact Polyprint Mailing Films, Mackintosh Road, Rackheath Industrial
Estate, Rackheath, Norwich NR13 6LJ Tel: 01603 721807 or Fax: 01603 721813.
More information at
www.polyprint.co.uk/recycling |
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Tools |
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The charity
Tools for Self Reliance
collect, renovate and distribute unneeded tools via partner organisations to
projects in Africa working under the ethos that practical assistance will enable
poor people in developing countries to help themselves.
TFSR try to meet specific requests on the
basis that the villagers know best what they need. Hand tools for a variety of
trades are sought after including those for Woodworking, Building & Plumbing,
Shoemaking, Car & Bicycle repair and Sewing. Hand or tredle round bobbin old
Singer sewing machines are required or any make of modern electric machine.
Contact the TFSR representative in Berkshire
if you have something you think would be useful:
John Phillippo Reading and Wokingham. Tel:
0118 969 6148
Or visit their website at
www.tfsr.org.uk |
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Yellow Pages |
Bracknell Forest
- in brown
recycling banks at:
Albert Road Car Park; Civic Amenity Site, Longshot Lane; Rugy Club Car Park,
Lilly Hill Road; Tesco Jiggs Lane; Tesco, Martins Heron, The Look Out, Nine Mile
Road, Binfield Parish Council Car Park; Crown Row shops; Safeway, Sandhurst;
Somerfield, Crowthorne; Sports Centre, Bracknell
Windsor & Maidenhead
- in any mixed paper recycling bank, in the
black box
kerbside collection and at the Civic Amenity Site, Stafferton Way, Maidenhead
Reading
- in orange mixed
paper recycling banks at:
Tesco, King's Meadow; Hills Meadow Car Park; Meadway Precinct, Honey End Lane;
Palmer Park; Rivermead Leisure Centre; Safeway, Basingstoke Road; Island Road,
Civic Amenity Site; High Down School, Surley Row.
Slough
- in the kerbside
recycling bags or in 25 mixed
paper banks.
Wokingham
- in the black box
kerbside collection and at Civic Amenity sites at Longshot Lane, Bracknell,
Smallmead, Reading.
West Berkshire
- in yellow
recycling banks at:
Sainsbury's Savacentre, Calcot; Sainsbury's, Newbury; Pinchington Lane Civic
Amenity Site, Newbury.
The directory recycling HOTLINE is 0800 783
1592 |
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