What happens to old mobile phones?
What does happen to all those old phones?
Can you help a local student doing research on recycling phones and raising awareness, as part of Environmental Science for her International Baccalaureate course?
What does happen to all those old phones?
Can you help a local student doing research on recycling phones and raising awareness, as part of Environmental Science for her International Baccalaureate course?
South Hams District Council’s collection of garden waste in the brown wheelie bins will be resuming with the first collections taking place the week commencing 28th March. The service will then run fortnightly on the opposite week to your refuse collection – see: southhams.gov.uk/garden-waste-restart . A reminder of what is accepted within your brown bin,…
Thursday 6 January 2022 ‘Let’s Talk Rubbish’ at the ‘EcoPubHub’ from 00-9.30pm. We all know we need to reduce our waste in order to live sustainably, but what does that mean in practical terms? – “Rethink; Refuse; Reduce; Reuse; Repair; Recycle”. SSB’s first ‘EcoPubHub’ to kick off the New Year has been organised by the…
South Hams DC has suspended all garden waste collections from Monday 16 August for a minimum of four weeks, see: https://www.southhams.gov.uk/waste-suspension-news. The Marsh – Sustainable South Brent’s Community Compost Site on Exeter Road (adjacent to the South West Water site) is open on Sundays from 10am to 1pm and will welcome your garden waste and…
NB. This programme will now end on 21 May 2021
South Brent Pharmacy is one of the participating centres in the TerraCycle scheme for recycling medicine packets and blister packs – see: www.terracycle.com/en-GB/brigades/medicine-packet-uk. Take your empty blister packs to the pharmacy and put them in the box.
‘Clean Devon’ is a new partnership of organisations working together to tackle litter and fly tipping across Devon, which will be launched in the New Year. It will see environmental groups, emergency services, businesses and local authorities join forces to combat the scourge of litter and fly-tipping, which are putting a major and growing financial…
November 2019: New Coordinator opportunity! Hardly a day passes without there being some news related to waste, pollution, plastics etc etc. Thank goodness it has become part of mainstream conversations, and that so many people are thinking creatively about solutions. Here in the village there are ideas and people just waiting to be nudged into…