With news on: TOMRA supports Recycling Lives; Reconomy supports care leavers; Sackers supports bicycle charity, and Notts raises £1,800 through recycling.
Reconomy to support Wolverhampton care leavers
Waste management firm Reconomy has begun work to support care leavers in Wolverhampton.
Earlier this year the company announced that it would partner with The National House Project, providing mentoring and practical help to those leaving the care system.
Reconomy has partnered with National House Project
Wolverhampton’s House Project will work with around 10 young people, who will be given access to an empty property and supported to develop the skills needed to improve the house that will become their home.
Senior management from Reconomy will act as mentors to the House Project groups, whilst the young care leavers will also be given access to employability support, coaching and job opportunities through Reconomy’s supplier and customer base.
Reconomy’s chief executive, Paul Cox, said: “Young people leaving care often have very little in the way of a support network and as a result, it can be a very difficult and intimidating time.
“The National House Project is a radical and exciting solution and we are proud to be able to support it and give something back to the local communities in which we live and work.”
TOMRA supports Recycling Lives charity
Equipment supplier TOMRA Sorting has made a donation to the charitable arm of Recycling Lives, as it signs a five-year contract with the waste management company.
TOMRA will maintain the equipment it has previously installed at the Recycling Lives plant in Preston, which processes and recycles end-of-life vehicles (ELVs), scrap metals, plastics, packaging, general waste and WEEE.
TOMRA is supporting Recycling Lives
But as well as signing the service contract, TOMRA has also agreed to give 10% of the contract’s value to Recycling Lives’ charitable sister project, which delivers a programme of supported accommodation for the homeless to undertake training and work placements.
Recycling Lives also offers learning opportunities to offenders in prisons and redistributes surplus supermarket food to charitable groups.
Brian Gist, head of TOMRA UK, said: “We’ve known the team at Recycling Lives for a number of years now and have always admired the fantastic work of their social enterprise and charity.
“Working together we’ve achieved great things at the Preston plant, so it’s wonderful to think that by making this donation our partnership will now extend to supporting some of the most vulnerable people in our communities.”
Sackers raises £3,700 for recycled bicycle charity
Staff at the metal recycling business Sackers have raised £3,700 for a charity which sends refurbished bikes to Africa.
Re-cycle Bikes to Africa refurbishes used bikes and sends them to Africa to help children and adults get to school or work.
Sackers staff completing the cycling challenge
Sackers beat its target of cycling 290 miles on a static exercise bike in 24 hours – the same distance the average child in Africa walks in two months to get to school. In total the group of 25 employees cycled 400 miles, with Sackers donating £2 for every mile over the initial goal.
David Dodds, who set up the challenge, said that when he found out about Re-cycle Bikes to Africa the link to recycling showed it was “clearly meant to be”.
He added: “We are staggered by how much generosity there has been. We thank everyone involved as donors or even cyclists, it was a hard challenge doing it through the night”.
Nottinghamshire’s recycling raises over £1,800 for children’s hospital
Recycling in Nottinghamshire has raised over £1,800 for a local children’s hospital through Veolia’s Recycle for Charity campaign.
(l-r): Caroline Saddington, Wayne Draycott, Treatment Manager for Veolia Nottinghamshire and Councillor Sue Saddington, of Nottinghamshire county council
Throughout January Veolia – which holds the waste contract for Nottinghamshire council – pledged to give £2 for every tonne of recyclable plastic bottles and cans collected from kerbside recycling bins to the council’s chosen charity.
Residents recycled 918 tonnes of these materials, resulting in a £1,836 donation to Nottingham Children’s Hospital, which is based at the Queen’s Medical Centre.
Wayne Draycott, treatment manager for Veolia, said: “This is a fantastic achievement, we would like to say a big thank you to all the recyclers of Nottinghamshire for helping to raise funds for this worthwhile charity, whilst also helping the environment by recycling all their plastic bottles and cans.”
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