ENVIRONMENT

New Use It All Collection Point - 141 High Street

Saturday 1st Jan 12 - 2pm

Friday 7th Jan 

Next Use It All Stall – Saturday December 4th – Triangle Market – Christmas Lights Switch on day. Will be collecting usual things. Including Tetra Paks! Just a reminder – those plastic net things vegetables are often packed in – try to avoid them. If you've got them – put them in the Black Bin!

New Anglia Local Enterprise Partnership are offering grants to local businesses. 

The Greenprint Forum’s small grants scheme, Nature First, remains open for applications for grants towards community projects that promote and/or enhance biodiversity in east Suffolk. Several local grpoups have benefitted from Nature First,  including Friends of Dip Farm and Pathways. For more information, to see details of projects that have already been awarded grants, and to apply, visit:

Suffolk Preservation Society webinar on net zero retrofit & refurbishment 15 March 2022 10:00-11:00

This webinar and Q&A will explore the challenges of retrofitting net zero measures to our traditional and historic (pre-1930s) building stock in a sensitive, affordable and effective way. With speakers from Historic England, the London Transformation Initiative, and Targeting Zero. For more information and to register visit Net Zero webinar - retrofit and refurbishment - Suffolk Preservation Society (suffolksociety.org)

Use It All will be open for your TetraPaks, crisp packets, batteries, toothpaste tubes, blister packs on

4th March and 5th March at 141 High Street.

But remember, you can take your flimsies (breadbags and the like) to most major supermarkets, many stores have collection points for batteries, blister packs can go to Super Drug (the box is at the back, next to the pharmacy counter), contact lens packaging to Boots Opticians. 

Use It All next collection stalls will be on Friday 1st April on the Triangle Market, and Saturday 2nd Compass Street 10 - 12 (weather permitting – if it's tipping it down we'll be at 141 High Street, Lowestoft).

We'll be collecting TetraPaks and crisp packets (especially foil ones) in particular, but you can also bring toothbrushes/tubes, batteries, medicine blister packs, and bra's.

Use It All will be at the NFA, 2 Quay View Business Park, North Quay, NR32 2HD 10 - 12,

to talk recycling, and collect your tetrapaks, crisp packets, toothbrushes, medicine blister packs and Hygiene Bank Donations - domestic hygiene products, personal hygiene stuff. We also collect 'gently worn' bras, which we will send to Smalls for All.

NFA stands for National Fostering Agency. We'll be in the downstairs lobby

Every 3rd Friday of the month at NFA.