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The Link Magazines February 1993
18 TE?JDENCIES
Ann Billingham, Thamesdown's Recycling Officer,
will be writing articles on recycling and other issues
of environmental concern for The Link
Pi*zzarama Getting to grips with Christmas Cards
Do you ever think about how much Thank you to all those children
we spend on Christmas cards each who brought their cards into the
Two Winter year and what a waste it seems to following schools: ToothillPrimary,
just throw them away. And not only Westlea Primary, Shaw Ridge,
Christmas cards, but all sorts of Windmill Hill, Freshbmok, Oliver
Tomnkins Infants and Junior, Brook
greetings cards - Mothers Day, Fa-
Special Offers thers Day, birthday etc. Field and Tregoze. And well done
The Christmas card campaign is a Freshbrook who collected the most
'4 national recydingscheme organised of any primary school in the whole
jointly by Boots the Chemist and the of Swindon! Approximately 3
Countryside Commission. The pro- tonnes of cards were collected and
Saving you s ceeds from it will be used to fund sent off to Severnside Waste Paper
tree planting in England's 12 Com- Co for repulping into new card.
munity Forests -of which, the Great If you didn't manage to take your
Western Community Forest is based cards along to school, don't forget,
Buy any Super Deep- in Thamesdown. recycling boxes are still available at
To collect Christmas cards locally, Boots stores until the end of March.
Swindon primary schools were And not only Christmas cards are
Pan Pizza and Pay asked to help and a special collec- welcome, sodo lookout those old Easter
tion organised on 14 January. and birthday cards.
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Regular Deep-Pan Make good HE
use of cans
Price only!!! You may have,
noticed that a
Save A Can
Take Out and Home Delivery. Bank suddenly
Every Monday, Tuesday, appeared in the
of
carpark
Wednesday and Thursday Sainsburys,
from 6pm - 8pm Bridgemead
duringJanuaiy.
This is because
British Steel
"Winter Weekend Tinplate and '
Sainsburys
Warmer" have together launched a major ini- So don't forget - Carry the Can!
Due to the lack of a transfer sta-
tiative called 'Carry the Can' to en-
courage Sainsburys customers to tion to bulk up cans and the high
on Friday Saturday and Sunday save all their cans for recycling. haulage costs of the steel cans to the
Did you know: de-tinning plant compared with the
A Super Deep-Pan Mighty Meaty (Ham, • 2 out of every 3 cans found on low residual (financial) value, the
supermarket shelves are made Council's existing public can bank
Pepperoni, Salami, Spicy Ground Beef,
of tin plated steel. network has been developed to tar-
Cheese and Tomato) with Chilli Sauce, • About 500,000 tonnes of tinplated get drink cans only. The Council is
Double Garlic Bread with Cheese, steel can are sold every year in hoping that the initiative being taken
the UK by British Steel Tinplate to subsidise
1.5 litre bottle Pepsi/Diet Pepsi • To make 10 tonnes of iron (to Save A Can Banks atSwindon's two
Only £10 - delivered or collect. turn into steel): 5 tonnes of coke major Sainsbury stores, will assist
is burnt, 16 tonnes of imported the progression to targeting and re-
Now that is a Good Deal! iron ore and 1.5 tonnes of lime cycling all cans throughout
stone are used, over 15 tonnes of Thamesdown.
• Please note that no voucher is required carbon dioxide is released
• Multiply these figures by 50,000 Furniture wanted
for these two great offers but no other
and think about it
voucher can be used with the promotion. The Furniture Cabin at Penhill
• Free Delivery to all West Swindon Area. After removing the thin layer of Neighbourhood Centre would like
to receive donations of furniture,
• Minimum delivery order £5 please tin by a special process, the steel carpets and household equip-
cans can be recycled into new steel
products, (there are 2 de-tinning ment.
The donations will be passed
PIZZARAuNIA South Wales). on to families who are being re-
plants in UK, in Hartlepool and in
Recycling steel saves resources, housed or cant afford to replace
Shaw Village Centre (opposite Village Inn) reduces energy consumption, re- such items. They are made avail-
duces pollution and prevents waste. able free in return for a contribu-
Nobody gives better service or better value tion to delivery costs.
The Save A Can Bank welcomes
all food and pet food cans as well as Donations in reasonable con-
FREE TO YOUR DOOR - WHY PAY MORE all drinks cans. Please remember to dition can be made by calling
TEL: 874844 rinse out food cans well and squash Brian orTerry, or Pat Whitmore at
the Neighbourhood Centre on
them if you can before depositing in
the Bank. 726525.
