Recycling Project Goes Mobile

09/04/2010

Two Teesdale organsations have joined forces to reduce landfill and help combat polio.

Teesdale Conservation Volunteers has agreed to collect used mobile phones for recycling on behalf of Barnard Castle Rotary Club which is collecting old phones as part of a global fundraising campaign to eradicate polio.

One of the practical arms of Teesdale Conservation Volunteers, known as Rotters, has just started daily collections of green garden waste to turn into compost. This season, however, local residents can now hand over their used mobile phones for collection too. People are asked to make it easy for the Rotters collectors by simply putting their phones into a plastic bag and tying it to the handle of the Rotters green garden waste bag.

The Rotary Club in Barnard Castle has already raised more than £600. It works in partnership with Envirofone Ltd. sending them to their recycling centre in Macclesfield.

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