Canny Local Company Launches Another Green Initiative

Paperpack in Pool have expanded their paper and card recycling business to include aluminium drinks cans and they have now officially launched the new 'cash for cans' recycling centre in Cornwall. David Opie, Owner Proprietor of Paperpack, has gained a wealth of experience in recycling aluminium cans when he worked for The Cornwall Paper Company and will bring this experience to the new can recycling venture.

July 17th, 2008

Christchurch CE (VC) Primary School Launch Lichfield Council's Recycle for Africa Campaign

Christchurch Primary School in Lichfield are known for their green initiatives at school and the pupils are urging recyclers in the District to support the "Recycle for Africa" campaign. The children's message to recyclers couldn't be more simple, please use your kerbside recycling boxes, to recycle aluminium drinks cans and foil with Lichfield District Council.

July 1st, 2008

Recycling Your Aluminium Drinks Cans And Foil In Huntingdon Can Help Plant Trees In Malawi

Richmond Fellowship recycling team are urging recyclers in Huntingdon and the surrounding areas to support the centres aluminium drinks can and foil collections. Not only will recyclers be helping the local recycling group raise funds for the centre, but will be helping to plant fruit trees in Malawi through the "Recycle for Africa" campaign.

June 4th, 2008

New Webshop Boosts Away-From-Home Recycling

Alupro has launched a new webshop selling collection materials for away- from-home locations such as offices, canteens and sports and leisure facilities. The materials support Alupro's Recycle for Africa campaign, ensuring organisations have an attractive recycling area which will help boost participation: the campaign guarantees that the more aluminium cans are recycled, the more fruit trees will be grown at community nurseries in rural Malawi.

May 7th, 2008

Teachers to Win Visit To Schools In Malawi

A curriculum-linked competition which forms part of new Recycle for Africa resource materials for Key stages 2, 3 and 4 gives primary and secondary school teachers the opportunity to win a visit to schools in Malawi while visiting an environmental project supported by recycling more aluminium cans and foil in the UK.

March 31st 2008

Children Help To Grow Fruit Trees In Malawi

Primary school children are growing trees in cans as part of a nationwide recycling initiative which converts recycled aluminium cans and foil into fruit trees in Malawi. A fruit tree is being grown for every tonne of aluminium recycled, so the more we recycle, the more trees will be grown.
January 31st, 2008

North Lincolnshire Council Asks Residents To 'Recycle For Africa'
North Lincolnshire Council has signed up to a scheme promising to grow a fruit tree in Malawi for every tonne of aluminium drinks cans and foil recycled over the next two years. The Mayor of North Lincolnshire, Tony Ellerby, launched the event at Normanby Hall on Wednesday 26 September.
September 26th, 2007

Charlotte Uhlenbroek Launches Recycling Initiative To Grow 85,000 Fruit Trees In Malawi
Environmental film-maker Dr. Charlotte Uhlenbroek is urging people across the UK to support a new initiative to help tackle climate change in Malawi, just by recycling their aluminium drinks cans and foil. A fruit tree will be grown in Malawi for every tonne of aluminium packaging recycled over the next two years, so the more we recycle, the more trees will be grown. Recycling aluminium saves up to 95% of the energy needed to make it from the raw material, bauxite.
July 11th, 2007

New Partner For Alupro's Third Trees Campaign
Alupro has chosen a new operating partner for its third national campaign to boost the recycling of aluminium drinks cans and foil. The amount of aluminium recycled each year has risen by 47 per cent since 2003, when the not-for-profit organisation first promised to grow a tree for every tonne of aluminium recycled, with more than 100,000 trees already planted in the UK and Burkina Faso, West Africa.
June 4th, 2007

Waste Strategy Focus On Aluminium Welcomed
Alupro, the not for profit organisation sponsored by the aluminium packaging and recycling industries, has welcomed recognition in the new Waste Strategy of the environmental importance of recycling the metal. Since 99 per cent of aluminium packaging is consumer packaging, achievement of high recycling rates is totally dependent on public participation in easy-access recycling systems.
May 31st, 2007

Great Recycling Efforts From Stratford Residents
The great response from residents in Stratford upon Avon to an appeal for them to recycle all their aluminium cans and foil, means that 57 native trees will be planted locally. Chairman of the Council, Michael Brain, planted an oak tree at The Churchyard at St James The Great Church, Dorsington Road in Long Marston as a thankyou to Stratford residents.
May 14th, 2007