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Dorset’s Re-Use Project

admin — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 22:41:09 +0000

Recycling is being made easier for you and your households every day. The council collect your waste every week with glass, plastic, tins and paper also being taken. And there are the many of you who recycle your clothes, shoes, books and linens.

Now, there is another option to do every bit we can to recycle and re-use products and materials. Dorset Reclaim, who started in 1998, have been tirelessly working to encourage local people to re-use, recycle and reduce the amount of waste going to landfill. At Dorset Reclaim they offer a free collection service for most domestic items, and collect anything that helps to make a house into a home, from furniture,and electrical items to carpets and curtains, crockery and cutlery.

Dorset Reclaim have prevented 17,500 tonnes of waste going to landfill by helping to distribute good quality furniture, electrical and household goods to low income families. Items can be collected from the Dorset Reclaim warehouse or delivered for a small fee.

Dorset Reclaim is a registered charity project working throughout Dorset and East Hampshire areas. Buy donating unwanted furniture, household and electrical goods you are not only minimising your carbon footprint, helping the environment but there are many local families who will benefit from your unwanted items.

To help with the project or to donate any items click HEREor check out there depots in Bournemouth, Poole and Dorchester.

Help the Heaths

admin — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 17:30:22 +0000

If you are local to Poole, Dorset and would like to help the environment, Leisure Services are looking for volunteers to help tidy up the expansive areas of heathland.

A variety of tasks are planned for this winter including; clearing trees and plants that are taking over the nature reserves.

Families are welcome, but most of the activities are suited to those over 16. Tasks can be customised to suit adults of all ages and abilities.

If you are interested, please call Leisure Services on 01202 265265.

Seahorse Colony Threatened

admin — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 08:50:55 +0000

The largest seahorse colony in the UK is under threat. Boats mooring and anchoring off Studland Bay, in Dorset are damaging the seagrass in which these beautiful creatures reside.

The RYA have come out in defence of the yacht owners, by stating that they are ‘normally very pro-environmental’.

None-the-less Natural England have organised for an area to be cordoned off with buoys to protect the threatened species.

This ‘anchor-free’ zone will be voluntary, but policed by wardens. The boat owners however, are concerned, that should they be caught in the wrong place, at the wrong time their boat details will be published on the internet. Natural England have denied that this is the case and explained that the wardens are only there to monitor the situation and they are confident that the cordon will be respected.

The Seahorse Trust has recently begun tagging seahorses in an effort to track and monitor their existence. Currently there are believed to be 40 in Studland Bay.

Last year, seahorses were registered as a protected species for the first time. Steve Trewhella of the Seahorse Trust, welcomed the study and said a ban on anchoring was just what was needed.