Tag: Hubbub

Community Fridges to go beyond food redistribution with funding boost

Stuart Mitchell

Environmental charity Hubbub is broadening the impact of the Community Fridge Network, through food hub funding which will help local residents to learn new food and growing skills and connect with their neighbours. Last year, with support from the Rothschild Foundation, Hubbub piloted food hubs at 14 community fridges. Participants reported adopting a more varied diet, discovering new recipes and feeling more connected to their local community. Following the pilot, 50 more community fridges were awarded food hub funding with support from Co-op and the Starbucks Foundation. Starbucks has committed…

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Dunelm Launches North West Trial Of Homeware Donation Initiative ‘Home To Home

Stuart Mitchell

Dunelm, the UK’s leading homewares retailer, has launched a trial across its 18 North West stores that will allow customers to donate pre-loved homeware items from any retailer, to be redistributed to local charities and community groups in the region. Launched in the midst of Britain’s cost of living crisis, the scheme will enable customers to reduce household clutter without sending items to landfill, while benefitting those in their local communities who may otherwise go without essential homewares. It is estimated 69.9 million homeware items are thrown away in the…

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Four local authorities receive funds to boost recycling on-the-go near waterways

Stuart Mitchell

Areas surrounding waterways in Bury, Derby, Adur & Worthing and Bristol will soon be adorned with colourful and eye-catching bins to help residents and visitors recycle when out and about. The news comes as environmental charity Hubbub and Coca-Cola announce the winners of the In The Loop grant fund that launched in October to roll out public recycling points and boost out of home recycling in four new areas. The fund aims to help reduce litter and increase recycling by collecting more glass, plastic bottles and cans and put these…

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In The Loop: New funding available to boost recycling on-the-go 

Stuart Mitchell

Environmental charity Hubbub and McDonald’s have launched a new #InTheLoop grant fund to help local authorities and other interested organisations boost out-of-home recycling in public spaces. The #InTheLoop fund will support two new projects to introduce or improve their recycling infrastructure using the #InTheLoop toolkit. This in-depth guide on how to roll out a successful recycling on-the-go campaign aims to help increase recycling rates and reduce the amount of waste sent to landfill or incineration.  The new funding has been provided by McDonald’s and will grant the two successful applicants…

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Virgin Media O2 and Hubbub launch £500,000 fund to tackle growing e-waste crisis

Stuart Mitchell

Virgin Media O2 and environmental charity Hubbub are launching a £500,000 fund to boost innovation to tackle electronic waste, the fastest growing waste stream in the world. For the next six months, the Time after Time e-waste fund will award grants of between £10,000 and £75,000 for UK projects which reduce e-waste, encourage recycling of electronic goods, or support devices being used over and over agaiThe UK produces more electrical waste per person than any other country in the world (except for Norway)1 and there are approximately 40 million unused…

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