USE IT ALL

East Suffolk Council have announced (23/2/21) they will clear the exposed lumps of fuel oil previously buried in 1978 on North Beach, and will try to work out what to do next. They think that the oil may be more liquid in the bigger deposits. Anglian Water sewerage pipes run underneath the dunes, which is a further problem. ESC are adamant they are closely monitoring the situation.

Questions about the Eleni V oil on North Beach are ramping up. Local politicians are asking when something is going to be done. Social media is doing its strident thing.

About three years ago my already rather old laptop started behaving very erratically - sudden freezing, getting slower and slower - generally, becoming a pain.

Eventually I worked out it was overheating. Usually this is dust on the fan. Dust everywhere, in fact. I knew fixing this would mean taking the thing apart,and worse, putting it back together again. The other options - getting a replacement or taking it to a computer shop for repair, both involved cost, and replacement a great deal of hassle (transferring all the files and so on).

at Triangle Market Place

Use It All means using everything to its fullest extent.

Re-Use ( and pass it on, sell it on)

Re-pair (by you or a shop or a Men's Shed)

Re-purpose (upcycle, find a different use)

Re-cycle (blue bin, green bin, Terracycling)

Use It All launch day on Friday 2nd July  and Saturday 3rd July 2021

Come to our stall on Lowestoft Triangle Market and find out what you can do to make our area the best there is when it come to community and all things green.

Seen the result of an obvious fly-tip? Here's how to get it removed.

If it's on public land - back alleys, roadside and so on - Norse will remove it.

If it's on private land, it's up to the owner of the land to report it. 

Have photos and/or map available before you start. The postcode is really helpful.

Click here to take you straight to the page, but read this first.

CV-19 Home Testing Kit

The kit is not recyclable. It should go in the Black Bin.

But the outer packaging, if it's cardboard, can go in the BLUE bin.

Disposable masks (or gloves) are NOT recyclable

 – Tesco makes a start

A lot of plastic packaging is rigid. A high percentage of rigid plastic can be put in your blue bin.

But a lot of it is film of one sort or another. This is NOT for the blue bin. 

Things are changing.

Tesco gathers up used film carrier bags at its store collection points. I have discovered you can add quite a lot different packets and packaging to the same collection point.

Community RePaint scheme  Re-Utilise in Whapload Road IS OPEN

Purchasing affordable paint from a scheme
Our schemes sell leftover, reusable paint from just £1 per litre!
Why not get in touch with Re-Utilise directly to find out what paint they have in stock and the COVID safety measures in place.

UK citizens are the worst consumers in Europe for buying single-use, irreparable goods. In this new BBC Radio 4 programme material scientist Professor Mark Miodownik explores how we got to this unsustainable state.

You can find the programmes here https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000vgh9

Could the High Street be the Street that Saved? Food Savvy are looking for one Norwich based and one Suffolk based community to take part in a supported challenge to collectively make your food go further and help save it from the bin.

Householders will be provided with personalised advice, a free food saving kit and join challenges and ongoing prizes to help keep things lively! And there may even be a chance to be on TV…

Deposit schemes are in operation in several countries around the world. You pay a 'deposit' on the container, then when the container is returned, you get your deposit back. Older readers will remember beer bottles (and possibly 'borrowing' them from the back of pubs to generate a bit of pocket money); and, of course, milk bottles.

The present government has committed to introducing such a scheme. Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs is entering the second consultaion on having a Deposit Return Scheme in England, Wales and Northern Ireland.