ENVIRONMENT

North Lowestoft Men's Shed has applied to Network Rail for the ex-Chadds, ex-Menzies building in Denmark Road.

They want to turn an unloved run-down building into a vibrant, green, community building. It was built sometime in the 1890's, so it has considerable historic interest, as well.

North Lowestoft Men's Shed think it's a perfectly sound building, ideal as a men's shed project.

Network Rail think it's only fit to demolished.

Use It All, Lowestoft Old and Now Community Website, Food Savvy/Suffolk Recycle, Most Easterly Community Group, Friends of Dip Farm and Lowestoft Town Council all had stalls under the Triangle Sails on Saturday the 18th September 2021.

Lowestoft Heritage Open Days Week seems to have been a tremendous success, again. An amazing amount of effort and work put into it right across Lowestoft, mostly by volunteers. An astonishing 115 events were listed.

Much of the info about being green for businesses is aimed at businesses with quite a few employees. But there's a huge number of much smaller businesses in Lowestoft. 

They may not think they can or should involve themselves in fighting the onslaught of climate change. They may not even think it will affect them.

But Suffolk is literally already feeling the heat. Not to mention coastal erosion, flooding, and transport costs. Small businesses can and should make every effort to be sustainable. Bottomline, it's where the profit lies.

Use It All's next collection stalls are on Friday 1st October Triangle Market and Saturday 2nd October Compass Street (opposite Uncle Sid's Zero Waste Store). We'll be collecting the usual things EXCEPT for pet food pouches which is on hold for the moment. CRISP PACKETS, TETRAPAKS, BRAS, PILLS BLISTER PACKS and so on.

We've added a new collection point - plastic plant pots - to the recycle map.

You can take filmy plastic to Tesco rather than bring it to us.

Use It All was at Heritage Open Days Market on the Triangle last Saturday the 18th September. It was busy. A lot of interesting conversations and ideas.

Most people we talked with are enthusiastic about recycling, and pleased we're offering collection points.

But doing the Use It All stall has made it starkly clear that there's a lot of confusion about what can be recycled, and where.

see also our Lowestoft maritime timeline page

1685 A sea survey by Greenville Collins showed the Standford Channel just off-shore (the name eventually contracted to the Stanford Channel). 

Way back in January storms revealed some of the buried remains of the Eleni V disaster.

East Suffolk Council have commissioned specialists to properly investigate how much oil remains and and to provide evidence for next steps.

Councillor James Mallinder, cabinet member for the Environment added: “Any excavations at the site may affect the rate of coastal erosion, and the surrounding environment, and so any decision about removing the deposits will be carefully considered.”

Christopher Saxton map showed Easton Ness as the most easterly point of Great Britain. Over the next decades, the action of the sea caused the salient to migrate north, to Lowestoft Ness.

183 BILLION Tetra Paks produced EVERY year. A maximum of 23% recycled, worldwide. 

They are Use It All's, by volume, biggest incoming. (Crisp and similar packets come a close second, partly because of the good ship Triangle assiduously collecting for Use It All)).

Because they are mixed materials (plastic, card, aluminium) they are hard to recycle, though if they are pre-sorted, it becomes possible.

In Suffolk, the policy is - 'We-can't separate them at Great Blakenham, so they can't be blue-binned. We will collect them at Recycle Centres."