Latest Total - £ 1,488,689.64

We have just had the September figures in, and we have now raised £ 1,488,689.64 for charities through our recycling efforts!!!  This means we'll be in excess of £1.5m in October, this is outstanding!

2009 Awards for Excellence in Recycling and Waste Management

Bag It Up and Southampton City Council were finalists for the 2009 Awards for Excellence in recycling and waste management in the category of The Best Community Recycling Initiative.

The sixth annual awards were organised by letsrecycle.com to honour the efforts of the private, public and third sector in waste and recycling. This years gala ceremony was held at the Landmark Hotel in London and hosted by television personality and news reader Dermont Murnaghan. Bag It Up and Southampton City Council joined 23 other finalists that made the nine different categories which included, High Street Recycling Champion, Commercial Recycling Champion, Waste Management Initiative In The Commercial and Public Sector, Innovation In Design Of Waste Management Facility, Collection Crew Of The Year, Civic Amenity Site Of The Year, The best local Authority Recycling Initiative and Local Authority Recycling Champion.

We were joined by two other finalist's in our category and were runners up to this award. We achieved this great honour through our strong relationship with Southampton City Council to promote and develop recycling schemes and campaigns with the local residents and community groups. This partnership has seen an over whelming 212 % growth in recycled textiles since 2006, prevented 337.5 tonnes of greenhouse gases being generated in 2008-2009, 225 tonnes of waste diverted into reuse/ recycling in 2008/ 2009 and over 520 tonnes since this project first started, our continued work with Southampton Solent University which involves student design tasks and university recycling initiatives and our combined efforts to organise a very successfull "Enviro Day" in Southampton City Centre to promote recycling and sustainability and support recycling to save lives for the Hampshire and Isle of Wight Air Ambulance.

Click here to see the official awards write-up

Well done to all involved in this fantastic achievement.

Lingerie Please Helps Bag It Up’s Recycling Schemes

Bag It Up has been working with LingeriePlease to recycle bras for our partner charity the Yorkshire Air Ambulance.

We have received a huge amount of support and would like to take this opportunity to thank everyone who has got involved.

To date over 3,400 bras have been posted to our offices, with more arriving every day!

LingeriePlease have been very successful in publicising the campaign with features in many women’s magazines such as Marie Claire, Sugar, and ‘Yours’.

Due to the huge amount of success from this initial campaign Bag It Up has requested that Lingerie Please help them with further bra campaigns for:

• The Yorkshire Air Ambulance
• Hampshire and Isle of Wight Air Ambulance
• Dorset and Somerset Air Ambulance
• CancerCare
  

They are also extending their support by urging their customers to donate all clothes, paired shoes, and household textiles to aid our partner charities:

• Wigan Warriors Community Foundation
• Whizz-Kidz
• All Ireland Air Ambulance
• Thames Valley and Chiltern Air Ambulance
• Yorkshire Air Ambulance
• Hampshire and Isle of Wight Air Ambulance
• Dorset and Somerset Air Ambulance

It is estimated that up to three quarters (75%) of the public’s recyclable textiles and shoes are just being thrown away, ending up in landfill, which has a significant negative impact on our environment. By getting involved and donating your textiles you will be helping several causes because everything, where physically possible, is re-used or recycled.

Look out for the large textile banks that are placed at supermarkets, pubs, and community sites throughout the country. Please use the postcode locator at the top of our home page to find out where your nearest textile bank is located, and which charity you will be supporting by donating your unwanted clothes, paired shoes and household textiles.

To date Bag It Up has donated nearly £1.5million to charity, and with your help we can make this figure even higher!

THANK YOU.

Wycombe Council are supporting the Thames Valley & Chiltern Air Ambulance!!

Wycombe Council have got right behind the new clothing recycling scheme for the TVACAA and given us 6 sites to place bright red clothing banks at. The banks will be delivered next so please have a clear out in preparation and help raise life saving funds.

The banks will be delivered to:

• Cocks Lane Car Park
  Tylers Green
  HP10 8DS
   
  
• Queensmead Road Car Park
  Loudwater
  HP10 9QL
   
• Sainsburys High Wycombe
  HP13 5HL
  
  
• Pound Lane
  Marlow
  SL7 1RH
  
  
• Wiltshire Road
  Marlow
  SL7 1JQ
  
  
• Park Parade Car Park
  Hazelmere
  HP15 7AA

We will then have over 40 clothing banks sited for the TVACAA, please go to www.bagitup.org.uk to find your nearest one or if you have a suggestion for a good spot, please contact us info@bagitup.org.uk

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