Sussex Green Living: New recycling hub launches

Sussex Green Living launch new recycling hub

Sussex Green Living would like to thank the Horsham District community and local churches for their recycling efforts which have resulted in the opening of a new recycling hub on 30th September.

Joy Carter, ‘Chief Womble’ at Sussex Green Living has continued to co-ordinate the sorting and dispatch of ‘hard-to-recycle’ twaste accepted by TerraCycle during the COVID-19 lockdown and subsequent period and would like to encourage local residents to keep on recycling.

Given the current situation with COVID-19 and the government’s restrictions to reduce the spread of the virus, our day-to-day lives have changed, and our priorities have shifted. But it is not all bad news! Green issues remain a key topic, and Sussex Green Living, along with TerraCycle would like to remind everybody that recycling is as important now as ever before! By disposing of waste correctly or storing it to send to TerraCycle when things get back to normal, we can collect now and have an impact forever.

With this in mind, Joy Carter and the rest of the team at Sussex Green Living have been working hard this summer to raise money to build a facility at the Unitarian Church, Worthing Road, Horsham to expand their recycling capacity. Many thanks to donations from Trafalgar Road Baptist Church, Horsham; St. Mark’s Church, Holbrook; Horsham Quakers; Horsham Unitarians and other donors, £2,000 was raised for the new recycling hub. Thanks also go to Berkeley Construction team who have been incredibly helpful with providing skips to remove the old wooden shed.

In 2012 Sussex Green Living set up a public access drop-off location in Horsham Quaker Meeting House in Worthing Road, RH12 1SL and the William Penn School in Coolham. Over the last couple of years eleven other parish locations have set up drop-off locations for their villages and Sussex Green Living, enabling the community of Horsham District to collect otherwise unrecyclable waste such as baby food pouches, home care products, used toothbrushes and toothpaste tubes, crisp packets, beverage ring carriers, used pens, pet food pouches, biscuit and snack wrappers and personal care & beauty products which cannot be recycled by the local council, and would otherwise end up in landfill or incineration. TerraCycle also awards a charitable donation for each parcel of waste sent in for recycling. Councils cannot accept these waste materials as they are complex and costly to recycle, meaning the end value of the recycled material is worth less than the cost of the recycling process. To make the economics of recycling this waste work, TerraCycle partners with large brands such as McVitie’s, BIC and Garnier who cover the costs of processing these materials. This typically involves shredding the waste, washing it and then turning it into flakes or pellets which can then be moulded into a huge range of products, often outdoor furniture or various objects for use in construction.

Joy Carter commented, “We are so grateful for all the support we’ve received for the residents for continuing to recycle for us and to the churches, faith groups and individual donors who have funded our new recycling hub. “We couldn’t have done it without you and your efforts have meant that more than 400,000 pieces of waste have been diverted from landfill and incineration, and you have helped raise almost £4,000 for various local causes including Sussex Green Living, William Penn School and Air Ambulance Kent, Surrey, Sussex. We are always looking for more support both people to collect these TerraCycle hard to recycle material and also people to help us sort, package and dispatch off. Find your nearest drop-off location on our website www.sussexgreenliving.co.uk/recyclingzone/single-use and tell your friends and family to do the same. Or contact us to volunteer.”

The result of months of fundraising, the new recycling hub has been made possible thanks to the efforts of the local community who have come together to help Sussex Green Living recycle as much waste as possible. The organisation was also the winner of £80 through a competition run by TerraCycle to find the best tips for recycling during the lockdown.

The new recycling hub is important not only as it will help Sussex Green Living expand their single-use plastic recycling capacities, but it is also a great demonstration of how the local community and different faith groups have come together during a difficult time, to help fundraise the costs of building and installing the new hub.

For more information about the Unitarian Church recycling hub, or to get involved and help Sussex Green Living in their recycling efforts, head to www.sussexgreenliving.co.uk. Carrie Cort, Founder, Sussex Green Living

Photo, left to right standing: Helen Whittington, Horsham Quakers; Rosemary Couchman, Development Co-ordinator for Horsham Churches Together; Patrick Wynne Jones, Horsham Unitarian Church. Left to right crouching: Joy Carter, Sussex Green Living lead for recycling; Mark Francis, Trafalgar Road Baptist Church at the new Sussex Green Living recycling hub, Unitarian Church, Worthing Road, Horsham displaying some of the single-use plastic waste donated during lockdown

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