USE IT ALL

North Lowestoft Men's Shed has applied to Network Rail for the ex-Chadds, ex-Menzies building in Denmark Road.

They want to turn an unloved run-down building into a vibrant, green, community building. It was built sometime in the 1890's, so it has considerable historic interest, as well.

North Lowestoft Men's Shed think it's a perfectly sound building, ideal as a men's shed project.

Network Rail think it's only fit to demolished.

Use It All, Lowestoft Old and Now Community Website, Food Savvy/Suffolk Recycle, Most Easterly Community Group, Friends of Dip Farm and Lowestoft Town Council all had stalls under the Triangle Sails on Saturday the 18th September 2021.

Lowestoft Heritage Open Days Week seems to have been a tremendous success, again. An amazing amount of effort and work put into it right across Lowestoft, mostly by volunteers. An astonishing 115 events were listed.

Use It All's next collection stalls are on Friday 1st October Triangle Market and Saturday 2nd October Compass Street (opposite Uncle Sid's Zero Waste Store). We'll be collecting the usual things EXCEPT for pet food pouches which is on hold for the moment. CRISP PACKETS, TETRAPAKS, BRAS, PILLS BLISTER PACKS and so on.

We've added a new collection point - plastic plant pots - to the recycle map.

You can take filmy plastic to Tesco rather than bring it to us.

Use It All was at Heritage Open Days Market on the Triangle last Saturday the 18th September. It was busy. A lot of interesting conversations and ideas.

Most people we talked with are enthusiastic about recycling, and pleased we're offering collection points.

But doing the Use It All stall has made it starkly clear that there's a lot of confusion about what can be recycled, and where.

183 BILLION Tetra Paks produced EVERY year. A maximum of 23% recycled, worldwide. 

They are Use It All's, by volume, biggest incoming. (Crisp and similar packets come a close second, partly because of the good ship Triangle assiduously collecting for Use It All)).

Because they are mixed materials (plastic, card, aluminium) they are hard to recycle, though if they are pre-sorted, it becomes possible.

In Suffolk, the policy is - 'We-can't separate them at Great Blakenham, so they can't be blue-binned. We will collect them at Recycle Centres."

183 BILLION Tetra Paks produced EVERY year. A maximum of 23% recycled, worldwide. 

They are Use It All's, by volume, biggest incoming. (Crisp and similar packets come a close second, partly because of the good ship Triangle assiduously collecting for Use It All)).

Because they are mixed materials (plastic, card, aluminium) they are hard to recycle, though if they are pre-sorted, it becomes possible.

In Suffolk, the policy is - 'We-can't separate them at Great Blakenham, so they can't be blue-binned. We will collect them at Recycle Centres."

Use It All Collection points: First Friday of the month - Triangle Market Place; first Saturday of the month: Compass Street. 

Tetra Paks and crisp packets and batteries and medicine blister packs and flimsy plastic and bras and toothbrushes and Pringles tubes and more...

Though most of these you can recycle yourself - batteries at supermarkets, flimsy plastic at supermarkets, blister packs at Superdrug. Check out our recycling map

Discussing Lowestoft’s win of the “street that Saved’ competition 

Next Collection Days are Friday 4th Febrary and Saturday 5th February at 141 High Street (opposite the old Barclays Bank building). 

Remember that you can take things like bread bags (flimsies) to most major supermarkets. Batteries are collected many places. Medicine blister packs can go to Super Drug in the Britten centre. Contact lens to Boots Opticians. Please wear a mask when inside 141.

Look forward to seeing you.

Happy New Year.

New Use It All Collection Point - 141 High Street

Saturday 1st Jan 12 - 2pm

Friday 7th Jan