The latest news, stats and facts on key environmental issues. The latest news from Sussex Green Living.

Coffee waste packaging recycling

Coffee packaging now able to be recycled at charity

Coffee packaging now able to be recycled at charity – article

Waste Week 11th – 17th March 2013

Recycle binCome on Schools of Sussex get involved in Waste Week 2013

Waste Week is a fantastic opportunity to get the whole school learning about waste and thinking about how they can cut down on the amount of waste they produce, as well as how they can reduce the proportion that goes to landfill, by re-using, recycling and composting. Read more

Business Trends: The Future Looks Green

Wind powerPresently, businesses all over the world are focused on the development of sustainable and eco-friendly supply chains that can be built not only to support themselves, but can also actively improve the environment. Scientists are working to make sure green energy supply chains are environmentally friendly, while also being able to eliminate waste within the supply chain. Once this process is refined and is able to be rolled out to multinational industries, businesses will be able to uncover new opportunities to reduce costs. Read more

Green Day at the William Penn Primary School – Press Release

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Green Day at William Penn Primary School

The pupils at William Penn Primary School in Coolham took part in a Sussex Green Living Green Day to launch a special recycling scheme at the school. Read more

Highly commended for Going Green

Going, going, gone green

Going, going, gone green – article page 32

Green Day at William Penn Primary School

Children help save the planet with green day

Children help save the planet with green day – article

Highly commended for Going Green

Winning “Going Green” Business Matters Awards

Winning “Going Green” Business Matters Awards – article

Green Awards – Press Release

Sussex Green Living wins a Business Matters Award

Take One Productions Corporate Social Responsibility initiative Sussex Green Living was nominated for the Going Green Award at the Business Matters Awards which took place on 20th July 2012 at the Copthorne Effingham Hotel.  The Take One team enjoyed a lively evening hosted by TV personality Fred Dinenage and attended by other nominees from Horsham, Crawley, Haywards Heath and Lewes.

The team members were over the moon when they were announced winners of the Going Green award.  Here Pedro the Sussex Green Living mascot receives the Going Green Award for all his work helping to Green up Sussex!

Winners from the regional Sussex and Hampshire business awards went through to the 3rd Southern Business Awards, which took place on Friday 28th September at the Hilton Metropole Hotel in Brighton.

Take One’s Sussex Green Living were among the region’s top businesses at this glamorous awards ceremony, organised by JP South Events with the support of the overall sponsor JSPC Computer Services.

Carrie Cort, Take One’s marketing director said “We were delighted to have been awarded Highly Commended for Sussex Green Living. This Award and the resulting PR will help to raise the general public’s awareness of the need to live greener and more sustainably”.

This is a list of the award winners and runners up.

Winners

Going GreenHighly commended for Going Green

Highly Commended – Take One Productions/Sussex Green Living

Winner – Stonepillow Restore

Start-Up Category

Highly Commended – Greenfish Recruitment Ltd

Winner – NonStop Engineering

Customer Service

Highly Commended – Little Wood Group Holdings

Winner – Elm Grove Newsagents

Innovation

Winner – Paint With Light

Small business (up to 10 employees)

Joint Winners – Caroline’s Dairy and Jane Jeater Osteopathy

Education and Training

Winner – Q Hair & Beauty Ltd

Hospitality, tourism and leisure

Highly Commended – Eastney Tavern

Winner – Chatsworth Hotel

Medium-sized businesses (10-50 employees)

Winner – Express Food Service

Outstanding contribution to the community award

Winner – Affinion International

Employer of the Year award

Winner – First Central Insurance Management Ltd

Best Employee or Best Team category

Winner – Norma Wood of St Michael Care Homes Ltd

Place to Eat

Highly Commended – The Richmond Arms

Winner – Jamie’s Italian

Young Business Person

Highly Commended – Daniel Edwards of Design 51

Winner Tory Smith of Tory’s Cafe in the Park

Manufacturing and construction

Winner ERG Air Pollution

Large business (50 + employees)

Winner Spofforths Chartered Accountants

Retailer of the Year

Highly Commended Andrew McDowall

Winner The Wool Bar

Business personality

Winner James Stoner from JSPC Computer Services

Lifetime Achievement

Winner David Luckett MBE

Overall Business of the Year

Winner ETI (Electronic Temperature Instruments)

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yogurt pot recycling

Is Billingshurst nursery to be top of the pots?

Is Billingshurst nursery to be top of the pots? – article

Autumnfest – sustainable living event

SATURDAY 29 SEPTEMBER 10AM-3PM

DOWNLANDS COMMUNITY SCHOOL, DALE AVENUE, HASSOCKS, SUSSEX. Free admission

Children and natureSussex Green Living will be participating at this Autumnfest event, so come along and meet us.  HKD are the organisers of this great family event.

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bottle top recycling

Kids recycling with a robot and Peruvian frog

Kids recycling with a robot and Peruvian frog – Article

Sussex Greener Living Campaign

Pedro launches his Sussex Greener Living Campaign.

South American Tree Frog

Pedro has been very busy setting up lots of new recycling schemes to divert waste materials from the landfill in Warnham.  These great schemes will benefit the William Penn Primary School in Coolham, WAKOOS nursery in Billingshurst, Sussex Wildlife Trust and the The Philippine Community Fund.  Billingshurst Primary School have also set up some of their own recycling schemes.  Read more

Big Recycling Bonanza in Brighton

The Green Centre BrightonSunday 29 July 2012 (11am-3pm)

Event Location: The Green Centre, 39 Manor Hill, Brighton, BN2 5EL

The Green Centre are asking you to bring your biros, blouses, handbags, hammers and spanners (and a whole lot of other materials) to their Big Recycling Bonanza on Sunday 29 July (11am-3pm). Read more

Renewable energy from abandoned viaduct!

An abandoned viaduct is to be transformed into a Wind Turbine

Viaduct converted into wind turbine bridgeA bridge that repurposes abandoned viaducts, produces energy AND looks futuristically sleek? Yes, it can be true, and it is Italy’s proposed Wind Turbine Viaduct called “Solar Wind.” Southern Italy is dotted with unused viaducts, and rather than spending $50 million to tear them down, town officials near Calabria held a competition called “Solar Park South,” open to designers and engineers asking them to come up with an environmentally conscious way to re-use the existing structures. Read more

How to be a Mum and save the world at once

How to be a Mum and save the world at once – Article

Don’t throw it away, give it away!

Freecycle

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You might not want it, but someone just round the corner might. All around the country there are Freegle Groups and Freecycle Groups, find your local group and free gift the items you don’t want to someone who needs it/them.  You might need something, in which case sign up, search for the item or post a wanted ad for free.

The central West Sussex Freegle Group is Steyning Freegle Group and there is a central West Sussex Freecycle Group in Horsham.

All items must be legal and appropriate, and free. No loans, swaps or sales please – just free gifts.

Sign up Sussex and get recycling rather than filling up the landfill!

 

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Green Jubilee party

Right Royal Recycling (Green Jubilee Party)

Right Royal Recycling (Green Jubilee Party)  – Article

Sustainable businesses needed

News bulletin………. Sustainable businesses needed for University of Chichester study.

landfill siteWest Sussex companies who save old products from landfill are being sought for a new research study by the University of Chichester and West Sussex County Council.

There has been a recent growth in businesses increasing the lifespan of products by refurbishing, remanufacturing or recycling them for future use. The cost of landfill, pressure to recycle and the current economic situation means that companies and the general public are becoming conscious of the replacement and disposal of products. Read more

Launch of Green Johannas at Bishop Luffa School, Chichester.

 

 

Recycling talkStudents recycling projectIn May, Carrie from Sussex Green Living and Blanca Timblick, the Business Enterprise Co-ordinator at Bishop Luffa School, launched Green Johanna’s at the school.  Blanca and Carrie trained with Better Tomorrows CIC earlier in the year to become voluntary Waste Prevention Advisors.  Better Tomorrows’ aim is to change how the residents of West Sussex think and behave in order to be more environmentally-friendly and more sustainable.

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Sussex Green Living launch

Green Sussex Website launched

Green Sussex Website launched – Article