ENVIRONMENT

1872 - 74 The present High Light was built. It had a new optical revolving light, flashing at half-minute intervals.

Use It All Collection points: First Friday of the month - Triangle Market Place; first Saturday of the month: Compass Street. 

Tetra Paks and crisp packets and batteries and medicine blister packs and flimsy plastic and bras and toothbrushes and Pringles tubes and more...

Though most of these you can recycle yourself - batteries at supermarkets, flimsy plastic at supermarkets, blister packs at Superdrug. Check out our recycling map

Discussing Lowestoft’s win of the “street that Saved’ competition 

Next Collection Days are Friday 4th Febrary and Saturday 5th February at 141 High Street (opposite the old Barclays Bank building). 

Remember that you can take things like bread bags (flimsies) to most major supermarkets. Batteries are collected many places. Medicine blister packs can go to Super Drug in the Britten centre. Contact lens to Boots Opticians. Please wear a mask when inside 141.

Look forward to seeing you.

Happy New Year.

New Use It All Collection Point - 141 High Street

Saturday 1st Jan 12 - 2pm

Friday 7th Jan 

Next Use It All Stall – Saturday December 4th – Triangle Market – Christmas Lights Switch on day. Will be collecting usual things. Including Tetra Paks! Just a reminder – those plastic net things vegetables are often packed in – try to avoid them. If you've got them – put them in the Black Bin!

New Anglia Local Enterprise Partnership are offering grants to local businesses. 

Suffolk Preservation Society webinar on net zero retrofit & refurbishment 15 March 2022 10:00-11:00

This webinar and Q&A will explore the challenges of retrofitting net zero measures to our traditional and historic (pre-1930s) building stock in a sensitive, affordable and effective way. With speakers from Historic England, the London Transformation Initiative, and Targeting Zero. For more information and to register visit Net Zero webinar - retrofit and refurbishment - Suffolk Preservation Society (suffolksociety.org)

The Greenprint Forum’s small grants scheme, Nature First, remains open for applications for grants towards community projects that promote and/or enhance biodiversity in east Suffolk. Several local grpoups have benefitted from Nature First,  including Friends of Dip Farm and Pathways. For more information, to see details of projects that have already been awarded grants, and to apply, visit: