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Category Archives: News
A Family Project
Are you up for taking the Zero Waste Challenge? We are looking for families living in the Dunbar District who are keen to give it a go and to write a regular blog about your experience. Let us know here or by private message or by email: susancarleton@sustainingdunbar.org
Calling all Upcyclers
The Zero Waste Town Project would like to organise a series of workshops which will help the community reuse, recycle and refurbish/up-cycle or mend items which would go otherwise to landfill and would like to put a call out to members of the community locally or local businesses who feel they could lead a workshop …
Recycling Week 2015
It’s recycle week this week and are out with our ‘Recycling on the Go’ bins to local schools to help them to sort, and if possible recycle, their waste in the playground. Here we are at West Barns Primary at their assembly letting the children know all about recycle week to help support …
Your Collection Calendar
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Recycling on the Go
We are good to go! See you at most local events through the next few months 🙂 We are working with local event organisers to get an understanding of what sorts of waste their events generate and together find solutions to reduce, reuse and recycle this waste. If you have an event coming up let …
Recycling Upstairs and Down
Recycling Upstairs and Down is the chosen theme of Scotland’s Recycle Week 22 – 28 June 2015 – encouraging us to look past the kitchen when recycling around the home. Studies show that we are great at recycling stuff in the kitchen, but when it comes to the rest of the house, we often forget …
Your rubbish is your resource
We are working with East Lothian Council to find ways to divert local waste away from landfill. How many times have you looked in the skip at our local recycling Centre and throught… that’s a perfectly good table…I could fix that up… but you can’t get access to the table cause regulations don’t allow it. …
Good to go!
The Zero Waste Dunbar & District ‘Recycling on the Go’ trailer is ready to have recycling bins loaded for Civic Week. Through the summer the Zero Waste team will be out and about at local events helping organisers to get an understanding about what kind of waste is being produced at their events and together …
Are you interested?
Are you interested in setting up your own repair and reuse social enterprise? Or are you an organisation that would like to diversify into repair? Zero Waste Dunbar & District can fund you to attend this workshop being given by Sophie Unwin, co-founder of the Brixton Remakery and founder and director of Remade in Edinburgh. …