Reduce Reuse Recycle Rethink is an excellent resource for teachers across all early year levels and provides a comprehensive look at how we can think about rubbish and waste differently. Surveys by Rethink Rubbish, showed an 8% increase (35% to 43%) in public awareness of waste and recycling issues and an 8% in crease (54% to 62%) in people who said they could do more to protect the environment. National waste awareness campaign Rethink Rubbish is aiming to increase the number of local authorities who use its brand from 134 to 225 by April 2004. Rethink Waste is a new scheme launched by the Surrey Environment Partnership in collaboration with Greenredeem, that incentivises Woking residents to reduce their waste and help the planet. If residents reduce the amount of waste they produce, it is good for the environment and saves councils money.
These adverts enable local businesses to get in front of their target audience – the local community. Their American branch use scraps of their nappies for upholstery filling and the company is proud that more than 50 of its plants have no manufacturing waste. Strictly Necessary Cookie should be enabled at all times so that we can save your preferences for cookie settings. Having piloted a virtual ‘Design Thinking’ workshop back in April 2020, facilitated by collaborative and sustainable designer Lisa Cole, we ran three ReThink ReMake ReCycle workshop sessions in November and December 2020. These sessions mixed presentations and video content with group discussion, conversations in smaller ‘break out’ rooms and using tools including digital whiteboards. Some of our frontline waste service workers and street cleansers will be on strike from 18 September to 1 October due to a national pay dispute.
On smaller projects, this will be easier to delegate and someone usually ends up with that role anyway. Especially in domestic jobs – the usual lack of disposal methods or designated areas makes it far easier to ensure it is being done correctly. General best practice would be to initially decide who is responsible for the movement of materials and rubbish throughout the site. Having one person that knows exactly where each skip or container is, mitigates the risk of things being disposed of improperly. So, unless we make these changes prominent and encourage consistency, it’s not going to have the same effect as if one or the other takes our message on board. Our industry has long been criticised for its negative impact on the environment.
Firstly, we do it more in our homes than on the building site and that is recycling. Using recycled materials in construction whenever possible can ensure we are not throwing money or emissions out the window. This can be things like using recycled metal or plastic instead of buying new, or even encouraging the use of crushed concrete as a sub-base for domestic driveways.
Thus, the margin for improvement of the global food chain system is huge and may unlock pathways towards the stability of the Earth system and the future of humanity. These are just a couple of examples we’ve been able to find of a new and exciting aspect of waste management called the circular economy. New clothes from old clothes and recycled plastic bottles, restaurants powered by their own food-waste, wood panels from agricultural waste and roof tiles from nappies.
Here at Rubbish Please we thought we’d bring some of these ideas to you, to further encourage eco-friendly and waste reducing practices. By taking part and engaging with content members receive points, which can be used to enter competitions for exciting prizes like iPads and TVs, make donations to charities or local community groups, or support local schools. Schools that take part could be in line to receive funding from the scheme to run an environmental project benefiting the school and its pupils. The Rethink Waste platform was introduced to help reduce waste in Elmbridge. It’s because of this that the weekly activities for members have been centred around reducing waste, from recycling more food waste to knowing where to recycle soft plastics, and of course, living a zero waste lifestyle.
The magazine includes a range of tutorials, activities and puzzles inspired by The Factory’s recent project ReThink ReMake ReCycle, where residents of South Bristol came together to explore the… By putting items that cannot be recycled into your recycling bin, it causes contamination, which has a huge impact on our environment. You can use your points to donate to your local community group, school or national charity through the donation programmes. You can also enter monthly competitions such as the Prize Draw or reward yourself with discounts on approved eco-friendly and other online products. Rethink Waste is an initiative to tackle waste in Elmbridge, through a digital platform that encourages waste reduction. Through fun weekly activities, including videos, quizzes, blogs and pledges, the platform gives you tools to make small lifestyle changes with a chance to earn reward points.