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Below are
listed some of the successful matches found on the Pennine Waste Exchange.
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| Local CD-Rom producer, HDC Associates Ltd, had 2.5 tonnes of waste CDs. We found Poly C Reclaimers in Manchester who collected the CDs and paid for them. | ||||||
| Asa Nicholson's Bakery and Tearoom at Keelham has 40 litres of used cooking oil every week, which is now going to the Biofuel Diesel Project to be made into diesel fuel. | ||||||
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Holmes Mann & Co Ltd had a number of items of waste going to landfill: |
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1) 1.5 tonnes of softwood sawdust per month - now going to P & D Pets for animal bedding. 2) 2 tonnes of softwood offcuts per month - now going to C & J Blackburn. 3) 3000 1 metre 1" square sticks - now used by Forest of Bradford for tree stakes in their planting projects. 4) 1 tonne of paper dust per month - now going to C & J Blackburn. |
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| Ashtree Glass have 1 skip of mirror glass per month. This is now going to Berryman's UK in South Kirby and saving the company £25 per month on waste disposal. | ||||||
| PEC Building Services have been giving 2 cu metres of 1 metre lengths of 2" x 2" softwood to various rehabilitation projects and schools every month. | ||||||
| Eurotex Enterprises have donated offcuts of bed linen to Laisterdyke High School for their Design Technology Department. | ||||||