Did you know that you shouldn’t put any electronic items in your household waste and that all electronic items can be recycled? This even includes things such as childrens’ shoes with flashing lights and disposable vapes. In household waste anything electronic or containing batteries is a fire hazard.

What to do instead?

If it still works take it to a charity shop – Age UK on the Ranalagh Estate in New Road takes electronics. Cancer Research in Seaford does too.

WEEE is a scheme where electrical items can be returned to a shop when buying a replacement under the “WEEE take back scheme”. For more information visit https://www.recycleyourelectricals.org.uk/how-to-recycle-electronics/retailer-take-back/).

The recycling site on New Road has an bin for electronics including one for pedestrians only.
B&Q has an electrical recycling chute you can put items in.
The items are taken apart for components to be reused or recycled

Additionally you can trade in phones and computers with Music Magpie: https://www.musicmagpie.co.uk/

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Tech Take-Back is a not-for-profit organisation who take old laptops and phones, refurbish and sell them

July 2024

Food Waste

Just a reminder that there are loads of great schemes in the area to help us reduce food waste.

Havens Community Hub has leftover food which can be collected from outside their premises in Denton at 2A Thompson Road BN9 0RS, saving tonnes of food from being sent to landfill or incineration. For more info visit: https://www.havenscommunityhub.co.uk/foodcoop

Oddbox delivers ‘wonky’ fruit and vegetables to your door, often food which would have been rejected by retailers. The cost is often lower than other fruit and veg boxes. Visit: https://www.oddbox.co.uk/

And Approved Food is an online food retailer which specialises in food which is past its best before but not its ‘use by’ date, selling it at a reduced price. For more information visit:
https://www.approvedfood.co.uk/

May 2024 We had a great time in May at Seaford Sustainability Fair meeting amazing people who can help you to save money AND the planet. For example, Darren from ‘Pairups‘ offers kits to help you repair your trainers rather than throw them away when you get a hole: https://www.pairups.co.uk/store/ And ‘Cheeky Wipes‘ – which is based in Newhaven, offering loads of great washable reusable products including nappies, wipes, sanitary products and much more: https://www.cheekywipes.com/

March 2024

Newhaven Green Centre has collected an estimated 5,000 blister packs – this is a full box ready for shipment to Terracycle for recycling.

The really good news is that Newhaven’s very own local Boots store is now collecting blister packs so you can take them straight to them from now on. Please make sure they’re clean and empty. Any medication or inhalers or other medical stuff should be returned to the pharmacy counter.