Bristan make eco taps which reduce water flow by 30 to 70%. Click here eco mixer tap details for more details.
Ideal if you’re putting in a new bathroom or refurbing your old one!
Recycle that charger!
Mobile phones are now essential life accessories but we have to keep up with the latest version. This means we all build up stocks of unwanted chargers that don’t fit other makes or models. One estimate is that there are c20 million chargers lying around homes unused – that’s 5,000 tonnes of waste.
The answer is coming for the future when a common charger is introduced across Europe after a common understanding was reached by Apple, LG, Motorola, NEC, Nokia, Qualcomm, Research in Motion, Samsung, Sony Ericsson and Texas Instruments. But before then what do you do with all those chargers that lie cluttering up drawers or worse still, remain plugged into the wall draining electricity?
Well Sainsburys has the answer. The supermarket has launched a charger recycling service initially only running from 31 July 2010 to 28 August 2010 (but it says it will run a longer campaign again).
The initiative is being run as part of Sainsbury’s ‘Make The Difference Days’ scheme, which it uses to communicate its corporate responsibility “values” to customers via colleagues. The phone charger campaign itself was suggested by Sainsbury’s employees.
For more information visit http://www.wearewhatwedo.org/recycleyourcharger/
Please click here LCL Meeting Minutes 070610 to download the minutes of our last meeting on 7th June.
Our next meeting will be on Monday 26th July at 7.30pm at Oughtrington Community Centre. Jo Petty from Warrington Borough Council will be attending the meeting and will give a presentation on the Love Food, Hate Waste campaign.
Come and meet LCL members and find out hints and tips on cutting your family’s CO2 emissions and saving money too. We’ll be at the LCL stall at the Lymm May Queen Festival on Saturday 12th July at the May Queen field in the afternoon. Come along for freebies too!
The minutes of Low Carbon Lymm’s AGM on 12th April 2010 are now available here: LCL Meeting and AGM Minutes 120410
The next meeting is on Monday 26th July at 7:30pm, Oughtrington Community Centre. All welcome.
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