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Current Project Work Name of Project
OFFERS / Ex-IT Furniture and ICT reuse and recycling scheme
Short Description of Purpose
OFFERS (Office Furniture Fittings & Equipment Recycling Scheme) / Ex IT aims to reduce the cost of good quality furniture, fittings and equipment (computers and associated ICT and office equipment) to recipient groups and thereby reduce the capital costs of providing their services or starting their businesses. Donors include large scale commercial and public sector organisations and recipient groups include voluntary sector organisations, community and faith groups, and small start-up businesses.
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Fonesforsafety
Short Description of Purpose
Mobile phones reuse and recycling project delivering simple panic response alarms to vulnerable people be using remanufactured donated mobile phones. Used mobiles are collected, re-configured and distributed to vulnerable groups as personal safety alarms to provide an emergency service contact line. If the phones are not reusable they are recycled. Pilot schemes in London, Birmingham, Bristol, Glasgow and Norfolk. The project is currently developing a tool kit for the wider dissemination of Best Practice supported by the Home Office, Comic Relief and The Body Shop.
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Southwark Home Composting Project
Short Description of Purpose
The provision of subsidised Home Compost Kits to Southwark Residents. During 2004/2005 over 2,200 Home Compost Units were sold. The Home Compost Kits consist of a compost bid, a kitchen bin and a handbook on how to compost and are sold for £10 each.
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GLA University Halls of Residence Recycling Project
Short Description of Purpose
The GLA University Halls of Residence Recycling Project support and advice on the establishment and running of reuse and recycling schemes in all University Halls of Residence across London
The proposal aims to provide detailed guidance and support to encourage and enable the establishment and development of waste minimisation, reuse and recycling schemes for all Universities and Local Authorities in Greater London. The proposal is based on the experience and learning drawn from the establishment and management by CRISP and South Bank University at McLaren House Halls of Residence in Southwark.
The programme will involve working with all 33 London Boroughs (including the City Corporation) and 39 London based Universities.
Each of the Universities and Local Authorities will be contacted and invited to participate in the programme. A survey of each University and Local Authority will be undertaken to build a detail profile of the opportunities and potential for the establishment and development of recycling facilities.
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OFFERS / Ex-IT Southwark CRT Reuse and Recycling Centre
Short Description of Purpose
The project focuses on the establishment of a dedicated de-manufacture and reprocessing facility for Cathode Ray Tube (CRT) appliances (Computer Monitors and TVs), and training / work experience space, as part of an existing WEEE reuse and recycling project known as OFFERS Ex-IT. The project is building on the existing Southwark Reused and Recycling Centre, which is part funded by CRED, London Remade and Southwark Council.
The project has the following principle objectives: To establish collection infrastructure and a Reuse & Recycling facility to enable and assist Southwark and other inner-city boroughs to meet its responsibilities under the forthcoming WEEE Directive to reuse and or recycle over 1000 tonnes of WEEE in the borough by March 2007 To set up a dedicated recycling facility for CRT appliances (primarily TV’s and computer monitors)
To develop a social enterprise to deliver services and support the local economy based on realising the opportunities presented by a local intermediate labour market to produce a facility providing: Employmentopportunities Work experience Training and transferable skills Local Community and Voluntary sector support Local income generation To contribute to the development of WEEE reuse/recycling standards and provide NVQ level training To secure inward investment to enable the refurbishment and reuse of disused derelict space to produce viable economic activity and jobs
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Community Composting Project
Short Description of Purpose
The Community Composting Project has successfully demonstrated the feasibility of small-scale community composting on estates in densely populated inner-city areas in boroughs of Lambeth and Southwark in South-East London. The project has established 12 small-scale community composting schemes on estates, where a core group of tenants use appropriate low-cost technology to turn organic kitchen and garden waste into compost which is used by the tenants for mulching, soil-conditioning and as potting compost. Participating estates include:
In Southwark
Gaywood Estate
Ruskin Park Estate
Peabody Estate Marshalsea Road
Crawford Estate
Rockingham Estate Play Association
Mawbey Estate Old Kent Road
Dowings Roads Residents Association
In Lambeth
PAPA (Pulross Area Playground Association)
Roots & Shoots – Vauxhall City Farm
ACCRA Youth Club
Stockwell Primary School
Elms Alms Houses
Community Green Houses Brockwell Park
CRISP has also done work in the following areas:
Support to Local Businesses Community and Voluntary Sector Organisations
Support to Local Residents
Support to Local Schools
Community Capacity Building and Development
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