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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
Now you can donate your old car to benefit a
charity - see
http://www.giveacar.co.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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Enterprise Recycling is a social enterprise project run by Scout Enterprises
offering WEEE waste collection. Whether you own a small shop, office, school, or
a large factory or distribution centre, we collect your WEEE waste in a way that
makes life easy for you.
Anything we collect will be treated here in the UK using the best available
environmental techniques. All computer equipment will be treated with secure
data destruction. We will not fill a container and send it to China or Africa.
Anything we can’t refurbish will be sent for recycling in UK facilities.
As well as IT equipment we recycle carpet tiles for reuse.
We handle all the paperwork for you. We are licensed carriers and take the
WEEE to our licensed site. Any transfer notes or hazardous waste consignment
notes are managed by us, thus ensuring your compliance with environmental
legislation. Contact Martyn Brown at
martynbrown@enterpriserecycling.co.uk or phone: 0118 959 6963
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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Age Concern's Furniture Warehouse
in Slough
has a wide selection of new and used goods for sale at great prices
including furniture, electrical goods, toys, mobility equipment, office
furniture and bicycles. Free collection and local delivery. Furniture Warehouse, Unit 1, Banbury
Avenue, Slough Trading Estate SL1 4LH
Tel: 01753 575737 to arrange collection.
Slough Furniture Project will collect
your unwanted furniture and household goods and make them available to
people on benefit at affordable prices. Donated furniture which conforms to
the 1988 fire regulations, bedding, baby equipment, electrical items, carpets
and white goods other than gas cookers are all welcome. Address: 69-71 Wentworth Avenue, Britwell. If you have something to
donate please telephone 01753 692535 or e-mail
sfphomemakers@yahoo.co.uk 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.
British Heart Foundation will
collect furniture and electrical items for sale at 303 High Street, Slough
SL1 1BD. Book a collection on 0844 499 4169 or online at
www.bhf.org.uk/collection.
In West Berkshire contact the
Community
Furniture Project which operates in the Newbury area.
Christian Community Action at
369-371 Oxford Road, Reading accepts furniture and unwanted jewellery,
including broken earrings, necklaces and chains. Contact: 0118 951
2337 or see
www.ccam.org.uk
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.
You can donate phones via
www.fonebank.com/nt to benefit the
National Trust or another charity.
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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Berkshire Nappies Interested in reducing landfill,
want your money to go further, expecting a new baby or recently had a baby?
Why not come along to our regular Nappuccino at Thatcham Nature Discovery Centre
on the last Tuesday of every month (term-time only) between 11.00am and 12.30pm.
An experienced advisor from Berkshire Nappies will be there to demonstrate a
vast range of beautiful modern cloth nappies. There won't be a terry
square in sight, unless you really want to see one! Free two week nappy
hire for West Berkshire residents. Free advice and demo.
Refreshments courtesy of West Berkshire Council and Veolia - not to be missed!!
Contact: Adele Hegarty, e-mail:
berkshirenappies@ntlworld.com Phone: 0794 095 2693
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.
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Paint |
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Community Repaint takes donations and provides free paint to community groups,
charities and voluntary organisations. To find out more including the
nearest centre go to
Community
Repaint |
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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/pages/recycling.php
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Textiles Banks |
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Recycling textile banks are the latest fund-raising initiative
from the Thames Valley & Chiltern Air Ambulance (TVACAA) with the first
of the bright red clothing receptacles appearing in the Reading area. TVACAA’s
recycling partner is Yorkshire based Bag It Up Ltd, a textile recycling company
which has raised over £1.2 Million for a number of UK charities since 2005 by
recycling and selling on a wide variety of clothes from strategically placed
textile banks.
The first banks have been placed at Waitrose Supermarkets in Reading and
Wokingham, Tilehurst Railway Station, Homebase Reading, Thameside Promenade in
Caversham, Hexham Road in Whitley, Orts Road Reading and the George & Dragon &
Victoria public House in Reading. New bank locations can be found by
checking the postcode locator at
www.bagitup.org.uk
“Recycling sites are needed to place TVACAA clothing banks, where the public
can recycle clothes, shoes and household textiles, helping to raise the crucial
funds needed to keep the aircraft and crew saving lives, whilst diverting waste
from landfill.
Contact: Rachael Hunter, TVACAA DD: 01626 511691
For more information about the scheme please visit
www.bagitup.org.uk
For more information about the TVACAA and how you can donate please visit
www.tvacaa.org |
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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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