With news on: B&M promotes Children’s charity; London Green Points supports causes; Cromwell Polymers sponsors team; Veolia helps Shetland foodbank; and, Viridor donates to football club.
B&M promotes children’s charity
B&M Waste Services in Leeds has started to promote its nominated charity, Children’s Heart Surgery Fund, on the side of its bin collection vehicle.
B&M are promoting the Children’s Heart Surgery Fund on the side of its bin collection vehicle
Children’s Heart Surgery Fund supports children and adults born with congenital heart defects across Yorkshire and North Lincolnshire. The company said supporting the charity on the side of its ‘big yellow trucks’ helps spread awareness of the valuable work the charity facilitates.
The yellow waste collection vehicles can be seen across the West Yorkshire region, delivering recycling and waste management to businesses.
London Green Points supports Havering charities
Nine local charities in Havering have been awarded £5,210 on behalf of residents who are part of the waste minimisation scheme: London Green Points – Havering.
Josh Cleall, Local Green Points, and the Mayor of Havering, councillor Linda Van den Hende, with representatives from the local charities
The donations were awarded to the nine charities as a reward for residents sending less items to landfill and recycling more household waste.
London Green Points – Havering launched in January 2014 and has since been rewarding residents for wasting less and recycling more.
Participants earn ‘Green Points’ when the waste tonnages decrease in their local area and recycling increases, or for attending waste minimisation workshops, using real nappies or ordering a compost bin. These Green Points can be spent on over 1,000 sustainable products from the Green Rewards eShop, or donated to local charities.
This year, Friends of Cottons Park, Harold Hill Food Bank, Havering Mind, Havering Music Makers, Motorvations, Romford Salvation Army, Saint Francis Hospice, Tapestry and Tweed Way Hall Community Association all received donations.
Cromwell Polythene sponsors local team
Cromwell Polythene – supplier of sacks, bags and speciality products for the storage and collection of waste and recyclables – has sponsored a local under-11s football team, Sherburn White Rose FC.
The under-11s Sherburn White Rose FC
Cromwell Polythene managing director, James Lee and National Accounts Director, Paul Fleetwood visited the club recently and were impressed with the facilities and everyone involved. James said: “Sustainability is a key part of our company DNA, so we were delighted to take this opportunity to support this local young team.
“In addition to the kit sponsorship, we have also donated some refuse sacks in the hope that they will be helpful when clearing up after match days; although the club house and pitch is already well maintained and tidy.”
Veolia helps Shetland foodbank
Veolia donated around 150kg of leftover food items to the Shetland Foodbank this Christmas, as part of its work to dismantle and recycle the Buchan Alpha oil production vessel.
The food, left in the vessels stores, consisted of long-life milk, cereals, tinned goods, biscuits and other items which were ideal for the Foodbank.
Veolia’s decommissioning team, working with Foodbank, removed the food items during the start of the dismantling process and packed them before taking them down the platform access and delivering this to the Foodbank in Lerwick.
One of the Trussell Trust’s 400-strong network of foodbanks, the Shetland Foodbank provides a minimum of a week’s emergency food, worth around £25, and support to people experiencing crisis in Lerwick and across Shetland. Over the last year they have distributed nearly 500 food parcels.
Viridor donates to junior football club
Chirnside Juniors football club, in Scotland, has received a £400 donation from Viridor’s Charitable Donations Committee.
Chirnside Juniors football club has received a £400 donation from Viridor
The waste management said the club will be able to buy new training equipment for its young players following the donation.
Over the years, Viridor said its donations have helped to enrich the lives of the local community, for example, providing sports equipment for small clubs, improving community buildings and pathways in public parks, and initiatives to help less abled groups.
Requests for donations can be submitted by any charity, cause or individual and generally range from £50 to £1,000.
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