ENVIRONMENT

East Suffolk Council are asking us to be more careful with the way we use our recycle and waste bins.  

"Residents in east Suffolk have been urged to improve their "bin etiquette" after a rise in household waste during the coronavirus pandemic.  

East Suffolk Council have encouraged residents to follow bin guidelines to help refuse teams provide an efficient, essential service." 

Click to see the story and guidelines.  

On this day King George II was rescued from the sea on Lowestoft beach in 1737.

The naval Battle of Lowestoft in June 1665 was the first of the Second Anglo-Dutch War. Held 40 miles (64 km) off the coast, it was a clear victory for the English over the Dutch.

When a fish-house, in the southern part of the town, was entirely washed away, and another fish-house and barn were so exceedingly damaged, as to make it necessary to have them taken down. credit:Gillingwaters History of Lowestoft.   

East Suffolk Council have announced (23/2/21) they will clear the exposed lumps of fuel oil previously buried in 1978 on North Beach, and will try to work out what to do next. They think that the oil may be more liquid in the bigger deposits. Anglian Water sewerage pipes run underneath the dunes, which is a further problem. ESC are adamant they are closely monitoring the situation.

Questions about the Eleni V oil on North Beach are ramping up. Local politicians are asking when something is going to be done. Social media is doing its strident thing.

About three years ago my already rather old laptop started behaving very erratically - sudden freezing, getting slower and slower - generally, becoming a pain.

Eventually I worked out it was overheating. Usually this is dust on the fan. Dust everywhere, in fact. I knew fixing this would mean taking the thing apart,and worse, putting it back together again. The other options - getting a replacement or taking it to a computer shop for repair, both involved cost, and replacement a great deal of hassle (transferring all the files and so on).

at Triangle Market Place

Use It All means using everything to its fullest extent.

Re-Use ( and pass it on, sell it on)

Re-pair (by you or a shop or a Men's Shed)

Re-purpose (upcycle, find a different use)

Re-cycle (blue bin, green bin, Terracycling)

Use It All launch day on Friday 2nd July  and Saturday 3rd July 2021

Come to our stall on Lowestoft Triangle Market and find out what you can do to make our area the best there is when it come to community and all things green.

The crime scene is at the junction of Links Road with Gunton Cliff (was Esplanade). A tree has been neatly felled. The illegal, as described by Lowestoft Town Council, tree removal has caused much consternation. LTC have acted fast. The police are investigating.

Smaller trees have been removed nearby, as well. The trees are probably self-set sycamores.

The felling took place in Gunton Ward, which is bounded on the south by The Ravine.

 – Tesco makes a start

A lot of plastic packaging is rigid. A high percentage of rigid plastic can be put in your blue bin.

But a lot of it is film of one sort or another. This is NOT for the blue bin. 

Things are changing.

Tesco gathers up used film carrier bags at its store collection points. I have discovered you can add quite a lot different packets and packaging to the same collection point.

 Inland harbour created by joining Lake Lothing with North Sea. Before that, everything was done on the beach. The inner harbour is formed by Lake Lothing whilst the outer harbour is constructed from breakwaters.