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/
Our February meeting was our best attended yet! Read the minutes here LCL Meeting Minutes 22 02 10.
Many interesting topics were discussed and show the range of progress LCL members are making. One example is the Insulation Campaign. Lymm’s housing stock has some poor levels of
insulation:
Since the meeting, Warrington Borough Council has arranged for a thermal survey of the whole of Lymm by Heatseekers, starting week commencing 15th March. This will highlight those houses which are ‘leaking’ heat and it will be followed-up by letters to the target homes explaining the insulation scheme. Richard Pearce also proposed that LCL volunteers could be trained to provide basic home energy surveys and offer favourable rates with contractors who want to work with Lymm households.
*** Our next meeting will be our first AGM so please make a special effort to attend on Monday 12th April 2010 at 7.30pm at Oughtrington Community Centre.
Camden Council have been encouraging residents to reduce the scourge of the plastic bottles and get recycling:
Camden plastic bottle campaign
So if Camden can do it, Lymm can too!
Even better reuse them many times first!
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