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BIOREGIONAL OFFERING MSC THESES OPPORTUNITIES
BioRegional has a number of work streams suited to thesis projects at post graduate level. Projects could cover: investigating fuel cells, anaerobic digestion or low carbon homes and health.
Among the list of 26 topics are several from Jonathan Essex and BioRegional Reclaimed including:
15. Added Value of Reuse Within the Construction Sector: Large changes in construction practice are required if the sector is to become sustainable in resource and carbon terms However, there has not yet been an analysis of the social benefits of taking this sustainable approach. Initiatives led by social enterprise or other not for profit enterprises for reuse (see reiy) and retrofit could underpin the transition to sustainable maintenance of our built environment. But what are the employment, community and other social benefits? (Ref: JE)
14. Carbon Footprint of Timber use in Construction: Sourcing: What is the carbon impact of sustainable versus unsustainable sourced timber, and how does this affect the use of timber for construction in the UK? What is the relative carbon value of reuse of timber or energy from waste solutions of timber from demolition sites? While there is a drive to increase biomass for electricity and heat in the UK it is not clear what the carbon footprint of the timber used in construction and maintenance of buildings and infrastructure in the UK is - and what carbon impact sustainable sourcing and reuse has. (Ref: JE)
11. Carbon Footprint of Construction Infrastructure: There is not yet a build up of the carbon footprint of the UK construction industry. This could be done by linking the mass balance approach used to estimate material throughput with carbon data published by Bath University and linking published financial expenditure by government departments to the REAP database. The end result of this work could be an estimate of the overall carbon footprint of construction in the UK that is linked to material throughout and levels of construction activity. (Ref: JE)
12. Carbon Footprint of UK Roads and Highways: This would extend the work by. While a theoretical model of the embodied carbon in standard road pavement cross-sections has been calculated (MSc thesis titled 'Framework for Estimation of Embodied Carbon of Highway Construction in the UK' completed in 2009) there has been no overall estimate of the carbon impact of road construction (that includes embodied carbon, transport and onsite carbon emissions) that is 'tested' against actual activities on current or past construction projects. (Ref: JE)
13. Carbon Footprint of UK Home Retrofit: There are now a number of retrofit case studies for home improvement and proposals for scaling this up (e.g. case studies and community Green Deal by Urbed Coop, those funded by TSB and registered through the Old Home - Super Home project). However, there has not been an attempt to quantify the embodied carbon of different retrofit alternatives and the likely carbon impact if this is scaled-up across the UK housing stock. This project would investigate and attempt to quantify what the carbon emissions of different options of retrofitting for a carbon reduction in UK housing stock would be. (Ref: JE)
Contact Lisa Baretta at BioRegional in the first instance
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RECYCLING FLASH MOB
A Canadian-French video of a flash mob about plastic recycling called 'Tested on Humans'.
The translated captions read:
-Each year, 671 million Kg of plastic are produced around the world.
-Each year, 400 million refundable bottles and cans are not recycled in Quebec.
-There are 18 000 pieces of plastic floating on every Km2 of ocean.
-91% of Quebecers care about the environment. Do you?
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 GARDENS COME TO LIFE AT SUMMERS PLACE AUCTIONS
An important collection of 17th and 18th Century Italian marble sculpture will be offered in the hugely popular sale of Garden Statuary and Ornament - both antique and modern - at Summers Place Auctions (in association with Sotheby's) on Tuesday, May 24, 2011 which will take place in Billingshurst, West Sussex. This will be complemented by a sealed bid auction, which ends on Friday, May 27, 2011.
Many of the pieces in the collection are in the manner of Antonio Bonazza (1698-1762). Included is a pair of marble musicians on pedestals (est: £20,000-30,000) as well as a monumental 17th Century sculpture of Hercules strangling the Nemean Lion, which is estimated to fetch £50,000-80,000.
This sale includes pieces with estimates ranging from £100 up to £150,000, so there really is something for everyone, whether their garden is traditional or cutting-edge contemporary. In these times of continued economic uncertainty, we are seeing an increasing number of buyers who want to put their money into more solid assets.
Of historical interest are two pieces removed from a garden in Frognal, North West London, which was formerly the property of J.Y.McPeake, who was one of the newspaper magnate William Randolph Hearst's agents in England. McPeake, an Irishman, was originally recruited by Hearst to publish the English version of Good Housekeeping magazine. First published in 1922 it was an immediate success and ultimately enabled Hearst to purchase St Donat's castle in Wales in 1925. Hearst used McPeake to purchase a number of pieces for him including a Medieval stone font and a 17th Venetian Istrian stone well head, which were never shipped to the USA, perhaps because of the Wall Street crash of 1929. Both are estimated to fetch up to £5,000.
The sale is also particularly strong in period cast iron seats from the renowned Coalbrookdale foundry in Ironbridge, Shropshire - named after the first iron bridge over the River Severn and now a UNESCO world heritage site. The company employed leading designers of the day such as John Bell and Christopher Dresser who often used timeless naturalistic motifs which are as fresh today as when first produced. A Coalbrookdale 'Lily of the Valley' pattern seat circa 1870 is estimated at £3,000-5,000 and is one of over 100 lots of furniture included in the sale.
Modern sculpture is well represented and includes work by a number of emerging sculptors representing a good investment opportunity, which will also give pleasure for years to come! There are 10 lots by the wildlife sculptor David Cooke in the sale, including a stoneware ringtail lemur, which measures nearly six feet tall and is expected to fetch £2,000-3,000.
A good selection of 20th century British sculpture includes four pieces by Sean Crampton. Born in Manchester in 1918, the eldest son of an architect, Crampton fought with conspicuous gallantry in the Second World War winning the Military Cross and the George Medal after having a foot blown off by a mine. One of his bronzes in the sale, 'The Batchelors of Avebury' is estimated at £4,000-6,000 and was inspired by his wartime experiences. Besides exhibiting at the Royal Academy and other institutional galleries, Crampton held 17 one-man shows in the West End of London over a period of nearly four decades.
Of local interest is 'The Little House' - a clapboard miniature house with clay hung tiles and fitted interior, together with a privy and garden, which is complete with raised stone beds with shrubs, box hedging and wrought iron railings. Using old materials, it was made Peter Hill Jones who owns an architectural and scrap yard in Yapton, West Sussex. 'The Little House' is the original building that was later replicated as 'The Little Ranelagh House' and was exhibited at the Royal Horticultural Society's Chelsea Flower Show in 2009 and sold by Summers Place Auctions later that year. Built on a scale of 7:1, it carries an estimate of £10,000-15,000.
A 268 page printed catalogue has been published and all lots can be seen on the website and at The Walled Garden, Stane Street, Billingshurst, West Sussex, RH14 9AB
Viewing times:
Live and Sealed Bid Auctions
Friday, 20th May - Monday 23rd May: 10am - 4pm
And on the day of the sale
Live Auction comprising 120 lots 24th May at 1.30pm
Sealed bid Auction comprising 420 lots; bids opened on Friday 27th May
For further information on the auction call 01403 331331.
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IRISH LANDFILL TAX TO MORE THAN DOUBLE BY 2013
Phil Hogan, Minister for Environment in Ireland announced in April plans to increase landfill tax. From September this year the tax will rise from 30 euros per tonne to 50 euros. Then in July 2012 it will increase to 65 euros and again in July 2013 to 75 euros per tonne.
Right now, disposal, which is the most environmentally unsound option for dealing with our waste, is the cheapest. That situation is simply not sustainable," Phil Hogan said.
"By announcing these rates, I am providing the waste sector with the certainty that it needs to prepare for the changes that these increases will bring."
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 DAY IN THE LIFE OF A DEMOLITION EXPERT
Mark King from The Guardian shadows demolition expert, David Strzelecki, project manager of Cantillon, whilst working on the Heygate Estate in South London. Health and safety, recycling and collapse are all mentioned in King's article.
"Standing amid the rubble of ruined buildings in a collapsing estate in London's Elephant and Castle, it feels like I'm caught in a futuristic, dystopian nightmare. The sound of machines munching concrete fills the air alongside equally discordant banging, crashing and splintering sounds, heightening my feeling of dislocation.
But it's not a bad dream and I am not alone in this strange environment. David Strzelecki, a demolition expert, stands alongside me, surveying the wreckage of what was once the Heygate Estate.
Its fate has been controversial, with some local community activists claiming the estate has only been failing in recent years as a result of neglect and, rather than knocking it down as part of a £1.5bn redevelopment of the area, Southwark council might have tackled problem areas, considered partial regeneration, or worked harder to help it evolve into a better place to live.
Regardless of the political or ethical pros and cons of tearing down this 1970s architectural hot potato, I'm here to shadow the work of Strzelecki as he goes about his job as project manager with demolition specialist Cantillon..."
For more, see the Guardian website.
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 TURKISH SCULPTURE OF PEACE TO BE DEMOLISHED
A thirty metre high mountain top sculpture of two figures shaking hands is currently being demolished after the Turkish prime minister called the sculpture a 'freak'.
The figures are situated near the Turkish city of Kar, on the border with Armenia. An artist was commissioned several years ago by the local mayor to create the piece to symbolise an end to a century of hostility with the neighbouring country which began in 1915.
The sculpture was never completed after a number of objections by locals. It is located next to an 11th century shrine.
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 NATIONAL CHURCH SURVEY RESULTS
The National Churches Trust conducted a survey in 2010 of the estimated 47,000 British churches, chapels and meeting houses. The aim was to discover the condition of the buildings, the way they are managed, used and funded. It was the largest survey of its kind, and groundbreaking in that it took place via a dedicated survey website.
In relation to the physical condition of churches the results showed:
- Many church buildings have key facilities, but there is room for improvement. Buildings with adequate heating, toilets or tea/coffee-making facilities are more likely to offer additional community activities. Nearly a third of churches lack toilets. Listed buildings are generally less well equipped.
- A critical number of churches need help. Whilst most buildings are in good or fair condition, a testament to the hard work of the churches themselves and external funders, 8% are in poor or very poor condition.
- Urgent repairs cost an average of £80,000, to those buildings in the survey sample in need of them. The most commonly required repairs identified as urgent are to roofs, heating and rainwater goods.
Andrew Edwards, Chief Executive of the National Churches Trust, said "Through a single, national survey we now have a better understanding of church buildings across the UK. The survey shows that open, accessible church buildings provide communities with a significant resource. Voluntary action that takes place locally often needs a physical space in which to happen, and it is clear that church buildings help fill that need."
"However, the survey also reveals these buildings' repair and maintenance needs, which can pose great challenges to those tasked with their care. Good maintenance practice is fundamental and the evidence of the survey backs our assertion that formal maintenance plans are essential."
The National Churches Trust is a non profit organisation that promotes the welfare of buildings of all christian denominations in the UK.
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THIEVES STEALING ANTIQUE CHURCH STAINED GLASS IN CANADA
Churches in Eastern Ontario and neighbouring Quebec are having their antique stained glass windows stolen, according to Ian MacLeod of the Ottowa Citizen.
The mystery is why. There's already a glut of old stained glass on the market. At least five chapels have been stripped over the past month, with dozens of large panels of the leaded glass skilfully removed from window frames. One of the latest was St. Columba's Presbyterian Church in Kirk Hill, south of Hawkesbury, where a pair of two-metre high windows vanished. Each was more than a century old. The thieves, who used a crowbar to jimmy a back door, didn't touch the silver communion ware, brass items or the sound system.
The first theft was March 28 at St. Matthew's Anglican Church, in Grenville, Quebec, across the Ottawa River from Hawkesbury.
Six stained-glass panes were pried from the windows of the 179-yearold church, most likely in the middle of the night.
St. George's Anglican Church in St-Rémi-d'Amherst, south of MontTremblant, and three other chapels in that area also have been hit.
Tim Marshall, of Ottawa's Stained Glass Stuff shop, said the cost of new stained glass can be as high as $600 per square foot, but antique stained glass is "only as valuable as the person who's buying thinks it is."
Jeff Scheckman, co-owner of Studio Verre in Old Montreal, which has done restoration work on stained glass throughout Quebec, including Montreal's Notre-Dame Basilica and St. James' United Church, added there isn't much of a market for stained glass with religious themes. As more and more churches are deconsecrated and transformed into condominiums or studios, there is a glut of stained glass on the market.
"I'm keeping my eyes open for them -there aren't many places they could try and sell them," he said. "We've been hired to remove stained glass from churches that have been deconsecrated. We crate them and who knows what happens to them then ... at the archdiocese they have a basement full of stained glass they're trying to sell or even give to other churches."
Marshall speculated the thieves may be after the lead in the windows. Lead prices have doubled in the past two years, with the metal recently selling for more than $1.30 U.S. a pound.
Provincial police on both sides of the border are investigating. A Crime Stoppers' appeal will air on local radio asking anyone with information to call 1-800-222-8477.
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 COCKEY LAMPOSTS HAVE GONE MISSING IN FROME
Somerset County Council has accidentally removed some listed art nouveau street lamps in Frome, known locally as 'Cockeys'. One was found in a reclamation yard, one was located at the Balfour Beatty depot in Wellington. The removals have been stopped but the missing ones need to be located.
Lewis Cockey came from a long established family of clock makers, and first came to Frome in 1685, where he began casting church bells, at least 62 bells in the surrounding areas are know to have been cast by Cockey. Later the family diversified and in the early 19th century began casting for the gas industry. Thanks to Cockey, Frome had gas street lighting as early as 1831.
Any info to Salvo please, or via twitter to @PippaGoldfinger
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1951 FESTIVAL OF BRITAIN ANNIVERSARY
Sixty years since the Festival of Britain a commemorative exhibition is being staged on London's South Bank. Here is a link to an original 1951 colour film by the Crown Film Unit showing the Festival of Britain main site and its associated Battersea Fun Fair.
When the Lion Brewery was demolished to make way for the exhibition, a fabulous Coadestone lion was moved rather than destroyed, at King George VI's request, and still lies on the parapet of Waterloo Bridge by County Hall to this day. During the rescue operation, a hidden recess was found in the spine of one of the enigmatic beasts. It contained a note from the sculptor W F Wooding, who reported that work was completed on the birthday of Princess Victoria, 24 May 1837. There were also coins from the time of William IV and the traditional green bottle, in which was an advertisement for the firm of Coade.
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GETTING MARRIED IN A SALVAGE YARD
Environmentalist Emily Conlisk married Steven Tanner in an eco-friendly wedding at Sarasota Architectural Salvage on 16th April because Emily wanted a low impact wedding.
"Emily and I have been playing at Sarasota Architectural Salvage and helping the owner, our friend Jesse White, stage some of his items for about three years now, every time Emily would come to town," said Emily's mum, Gail Stephens, in the Sarasota Herald Tribune.
"She's an interior designer and can't resist places like Jesse's. In fact, Emily and Steven - - he just finished medical school - - met seven years ago in Home Depot where they both had part-time jobs while in college, she in the décor department and he in flooring. When we thought about doing a unique wedding, it occurred to us that since Emily is devoted to recycling and she loves to creatively repurpose everything, that a ceremony in the salvage yard side garden with the reception inside the store might be just the thing. When Emily was little I used to stage volunteer recycling efforts at her school. We'd collect, turn the recyclables in for money and eventually we raised enough for a playground at the school. I worked at Habitat for Humanity here in Sarasota, and my husband, Larry, runs the Habitat Resale Store in Manatee County. Our whole family is all about saving, repurposing and finding value and beauty in things you can find in places like salvage stores.
"Emily and Steven's wedding showed that you can have a beautiful romantic wedding on a small budget if you have imagination. And we all had an incredible amount of fun doing it because everyone got into the mode of sharing clothes and décor items. And so many friends volunteered to work at the salvage yard to put the event together that we bonded in an unforgettable way."
The bride wore a Grecian-style chiffon dress bought at a consignment store in Atlanta for $250. The veil was borrowed from a friend, and the ring bearer's pillow has been making the rounds of weddings in Emily's group.
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HANNAH GENDERS USING RECLAIMED AT MALVERN SHOW
Award-winning Worcestershire garden designer Hannah Genders is scouring the area for materials for her show garden at the Malvern Spring Gardening Show. Mrs Genders, from Rous Lench, near Evesham, is celebrating the colour and diversity of the area in which she lives by creating a garden in which everything has been found a short bike ride away.
'My Very Local Veg Garden' includes many local species of heritage fruit varieties and is full of ideas for growing vegetables in small spaces. The winner of two awards for her garden at the National Memorial Arboretum near Alrewas in Staffordshire, she will be creating a show garden that is eco-friendly, with recycled paths of slabs, terracotta tiles and granite setts from a reclamation yard west of Worcester.
All the wood is from the woodland near her home, and the plants have been sourced from local nurseries using peat-free compost. The gravel is from the nearest quarry, in the Forest of Dean.
Mrs Genders' garden is one of 30 on display at the Spring Gardening Show at the Three Counties showground from May 12-15. Other gardens include a Tudor-style parterre, a shepherd's garden and a suburban paradise inspired by Chinese and Japanese art.
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 THREE PIGEONS WATER TOWER REVOLVING RESTAURANT APRIL FOOL
Lassco Three Pigeons in Oxfordshire announced on 1st April that they had bought the water tower overlooking the site and planned to turn it into a revolving restaurant. Most of the newsletter recipients realised it was a hoax, but a few were suckered.
The newsletter proclaimed:
'In order to emulate the Magdalen College Choir atop Magdalen Tower for their dawn chorus - a 500 year old May Day tradition in Oxford - we are to have our own tower-top celebration at dawn on 1st May. We are pleased to have booked "Dead or Alive" who will perform their 1984 smash hit "You Spin Me Round (Like A Record)" as dawn breaks.'
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'. . . a continuous viewing window [will be] introduced to the outer concrete wall, and the gearing apparatus applied to the central cam-shaft. Remarkably, the panelled zinc-lined steel tank will float on olive-oil, principally powered by solar energy. A double lift-shaft and fire-escape will be introduced within the eight support posts with a small glass Maitre d' lobby at ground level. LASSCO will continue to house the lucrative phone masts on the roof which will, for the time being, prevent the development of the viewing platform and BBQ deck. Rotating at an optimum of 2revs per hour we anticipate that the diner will, in a three course sitting, take in the view at least twice. This is faster than the Water Tower Belvedere Restaurant in Aachen Germany that rotates every 56minutes. With London's BT Tower closed to the public (and seldom rotating) and St John's Beacon (Radio City Tower) in Liverpool now locked in place, the LASSCO Three Pigeons Tower will join Lakeview Restaurant at Elveden Forest as the only example of a rotating tower restaurant in the UK (Worldwide there are around two hundred: Iran has sixteen!) [See the Wikipedia link below]
True to our salvage origins we will be utilising the mahogany and wrought-iron lift-cars we extracted from Fortnum and Mason a few years ago and will press the curved oak panelling from The Oval Office into use in the restaurant, salvaged last year during President Obama's notorious White House refit on taking office.'
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 OBITUARY: JOHN HOBBS
John Edmund Hobbs, who died in March 2011, had moved from the wild Fulham of the 1960s as a young man to become one of Britain's decorative antiques glitterati, only then to fall from grace in 2008 after he failed to pay his restorer Dennis Buggins who turned whistleblower and told the world's press that some of Hobbs antiques were very good fakes. He knew because he had made them.
Hobbs was born in St Albans in 1946, and moved with his family to Fulham where his father Sid ran a junk shop called Odds & Hobbs where Hobbs worked from the age of 14 after which he became a knocker.
The Telegraph obituary stated that he was 'a youth of striking beauty - described by the society antiques dealer Christopher Gibbs as looking as if he'd strayed from a band of angels in a quattrocento painting.' Hobbs apparently became the muse for playwright Nell Dunn while she was writing 'Up The Junction' and fathered Dunn's first child, Reuben, born in 1964.
The Telegraph states, 'For a period Hobbs was close with John Bindon, the notorious Fulham tough who had been his senior at St Mark's School, and together they discovered many interests in common - not least gambling, recreational stimulants and women . Like Bindon, Hobbs was prone to stray . By his own account, his younger self was no stranger to fencing stolen goods and housebreaking. One such foray, he claimed, was to the home of the politician and journalist Woodrow Wyatt. In the newspapers the next day, Wyatt trumpeted that he had seen off the intruders - but in reality, Hobbs asserted, he had hidden under the bedcovers shouting: Take what you want but don't touch me.'
In 1968 Hobbs reputedly lent property developer Nicholas van Hoogstraten a car used in the hand-grenade attack on the home of a Jewish leader whose son owed him £3,000. Hobbs had an affair with gossip columnist Nigel Dempster's new wife. Hobbs was still running furniture, joined by his younger brother Carlton Hobbs and by 1974 they had a shop in The Furniture Cave.
Again, The Telegraph states, 'The early days at the "Cave" were perhaps Hobbs's happiest. The place had the air of a club - albeit a thoroughly disreputable one whose membership embraced an eclectic mix of dealers, housebreakers and pimps, not to mention a smattering of Old Etonians - where work often took a back seat to the serious business of poker and backgammon.'
Carlton Hobbs began buying pieces in Europe, especially Biedermeier furniture, and also bought Russian furniture in Scandinavia. By now they had a shop in Pimlico Road, and high profile customers, such as Elton John, to match, and they had the exclusive services of Kent-based restorer, Dennis Buggins. In 1993 the brothers split and John Hobbs moved to a gallery behind Chelsea Barracks. In 2002 John Hobbs negotiated a £7 million guarantee to sell his stock at Phillips de Pury in New York. By 2005, Carlton Hobbs had moved his business to Manhattan.
Buggins had continued to work exclusively for both brothers. In 2007 Carlton filed a multi-million-dollar suit against the restorer, claiming that some pieces had not been delivered and that others were damaged. Fearful of the repercussions of this dispute, John Hobbs attempted to broker a settlement, but failed. Soon, he too was in litigation with the restorer. Hobbs sued Buggins in December 2007 for the return of £2m antiques plus interest and damages, although most of these claims were abandoned earl in 2010. Buggins countersued for £400,000 for fees, materials and storage charges for which he had invoiced Hobbs shortly after the termination of their relationship in August 2007, but which remained unpaid.
After being forced to shut down his workshop and sell his home Buggins decided to go public with allegations against John Hobbs, even if an injunction prevented him from discussing Carlton Hobbs. Dennis Buggins other business, Extreme Architecture, was having a better time, having sold the IRA bomb damaged Baltic Exchange building to two Estonian businessmen for £800,000 - one of the most spectacular sales of architectural salvage ever.
In April 2008, The Sunday Times ran a front-page article entitled: "Whistleblower reveals £30m antiques scam". Buggins claimed that since 1992 his workshop handled 1,875 items for Hobbs, more than half of which involved major alterations or outright inventions. Photographs and records provided by Buggins showed how he had transformed ordinary pieces of furniture into high-end antiques. Such had been Hobbs's demand for period wardrobes, he alleged, that it had even been necessary to rent a barn in which to store them.
The embellished items were then attributed by Hobbs to the great cabinetmakers of the past, and described as "rare" and "significant". One such invention, described by Hobbs as a "large and important gilt metal mounted mahogany pedestal partners desk, early 19th-century in the manner of Marsh and Tatham", had an asking price of £1.2 million. Buggins claimed he had designed the desk himself and the cost for labour and materials had been £100,000.
Fearing the attentions of the law and his clients, Hobbs shipped much of his stock over to Switzerland and closed his gallery, insisting that the timing was incidental: "We're taking this opportunity to redecorate, that's all." But it never reopened. The British Antique Dealers' Association suspended him. Carlton, back in the States, swiftly reached an undisclosed settlement with Buggins, understood to involve a payment of more than a million pounds to the restorer.
The restorer's revelations provoked great anxiety among decorators - and their clients - around the world. That June, a pair of commodes that Hobbs had sold to a Swedish businessman for £395,000 in 1997 was withdrawn from a Sotheby's sale in New York after a tip-off from a journalist. The catalogue described them as German neo-Classical, circa 1800, with a high estimate of $300,000: but Buggins produced evidence that he had made them out of a few old wardrobes and cedar from a local timber merchant.
For Hobbs, the impact was ruinous. His stock, when he could sell it, was now worth only a fraction of its previous value. He faced escalating legal bills and a large unanticipated tax demand. Worse, his health - he had been diagnosed with cancer in 2004 - was fast deteriorating. He finally reached a settlement with Buggins at the High Court last November, moments before he was due to be cross-examined. The agreement involved a substantial cash payment, again to the restorer, and the legal costs of both sides were thought to have reached more than £1 million.
Again the Telegraph puts it, 'Hobbs was charismatic and capable of attracting real loyalty. But he understood when and how to apply menace, and was a doughty litigant, whose long-running disputes with Jacob Rothschild , the French and Italian authorities, and Buggins kept many lawyers in clover. He also had a self-destructive personality and a gambler's disregard for consequences. He spent most of his life battling addictions to drink and drugs and was prone to depression.'
He married first, in 1987 (dissolved 2002), Lola Wigan, the daughter of the Dorset racehorse breeder Dare Wigan. He married secondly, in 2003 (dissolved 2008), Dolores King. He also fathered two further children, a daughter, Rebecca, with Loretta Land in 1967, and a son, Rupert, with Sonia Dean in 1970 (he also assumed paternal responsibilities for her daughter, Elly).
John Hobbs died on March 13 at his flat in Putney. He was working on his memoirs, to be titled Honest John.
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 OLD DOORS AND OLD FLOORS AT SALVO FAIR 2011
May's issue of Period Living Magazine features the first of three articles on the Salvo Fair at Knebworth House. This month the focus is on Salvo Fair stalwart Peter Watson from Cox's Yard in Gloucestershire.
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 VINTAGE ICEBOXES COMING TO KNEBWORTH IN JUNE
The international trade in ice, mainly to provide a means of making ice cream, was started by Frederic Tudor of Boston, known as the Ice King, who in 1806 shipped 80 tons of ice to Martinique in the West Indies. The trade grew and by 1847 Tudor sent 52,000 tons of ice to 28 cities across the USA, and to Cuba, Jamaica, Brazil, Europe and even India. A prize medal was awarded to an 'ice safe or refrigerator' at the 1851 Great Exhibition in London to the Wenham Lake Ice Co of Massachusetts, purveyors by special appointment to Her Majesty, whose first export to England occurred in 1844 when the company had a shop in London on The Strand where a large cube of ice two feet square was displayed in the window that summer. Calcutta became Tudor's most profitable destination so he built his own icehouses in both Calcutta and Madras. By 1900 nearly every family, grocer and barkeeper in the USA had an icebox.
Ice was shipped to its destination city or town in large blocks where it was kept in an icehouse from which it was then hawked as smaller blocks from street to street. The refined form of icebox as kitchen furniture or appliance was invented between 1850 and 1860 and remained in production in a similar form until the advent of the electric fridge in the 1930s. The iceboxes are hardwood cupboards with inner linings of tin or zinc insulated with material such as cork, sawdust, rice husks, straw or seaweed, some with glazed cupboard doors, built to house blocks of ice on an upper shelf, allowing cool air, and often iced water, to flow through the lower food and drink cupboards below.
Ice was harvested from Wenham Lake by a crew of 100 men and 30-40 horses after a foot of black ice had formed. Snow was swept off and snow-ice was scraped off by horse-drawn vehicles if necessary. Then a horse-drawn cutting tool, the marker, scored a grid 2-3 inches deep forming 21-inch squares over 2-3 acres of ice. Men with saws cut along a line one direction while men with ice spades knocked the blocks free from the strip. Another crew with ice hooks drew the ice onto platforms over ramps. Full platforms were slid onto sledges for transport to ice houses on the shore. An ice house was built of pine walls filled with sawdust to the thickness of two feet. The blocks were packed in sawdust for transport, moved to the train in special wagons and brought directly to a wharf in Boston. They arrived within an hour of cutting with no loss. Transport to Britain by ship lost about a third of the ice. The heydays of the ice trade were in the 1870s and 80s with annual exports of hundreds of thousands of tons, alongside which apples and butter were also dispatched. Finally block ice came to be manufactured on a large scale, and then during the early 1900s domestic electric refrigerators became available, and by the 1940s they were common in US homes.
The Vintage Fridge Co is a newly formed business specialising in restored iceboxes or antique wooden fridges will be at this year's Salvo Fair. It was set up by John Bodrell of The Cast Iron Reclamation Co as a spin-off to his upmarket reclaimed radiator business.
"I was doing a big reclaimed pine floorboard kitchen," Mr. Bodrell said, "and the client was looking for a wooden fridge. He found some ghastly new thing on the web for £20,000. I has a look and stumbled on a Dutch chap running a restaurant in Antwerp who previously ran a restaurant in Brazil where he had restored a geladeira, as wooden ice boxes are known in Portuguese, as a result of which he had collected a load more, some of them in use as chicken coops, some with their original mercury glass. He had started restoring and converting them in Belgium."
The Brazilian geladeiras were manufactured for restaurants and bars in Rio de Janeiro and Minas Gerais, made from peroba do campo timber, also known as ipe, a hardwood similar to mahogany, which is insect resistant, has medicinal properties, and was famously the species used for creating ten mile long boardwalks in Coney Island and New Jersey, possibly imported as a result of the ice trade.
"I don't like them over restored as they tend to look like modern repro. We convert them from iceboxes needing ice, to modern fridges using compressors and ozone-friendly refrigerant. Some clients want the mechanics inside the fridge and some prefer the compressor housed at the back outside the fridge, so the compressor position is usually decided after the client has made the purchase. They sell typically to either private customers with large houses and kitchens, or upmarket clubs, bars and hotels which need a visible fridge with a retro feel. The restored fridges are unique and simple, have a chunky industrial style, and tend to be less problematic than cast iron radiators."
Prices range from £5,000 to £20,000. A fully restored and converted 8ft high by 4ft wide five door 1930s model costs around £9,000.
The Vintage Fridge Co, Surrey. Tel 01372 726845
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 CHRIS TOPP'S REAL IRON ON EIFFEL TOWER TV PROGRAMME
The Eiffel Tower has undergone a restoration programme, the first major works since the tower was built in 1889. It was built by Gustave Eiffel for the 1889 Exposition Universelle, to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the French Revolution. Its construction in 2 years, 2 months and 5 days was a technical and architectural achievement and was only intended to last for 20 years.
Blink Films filmed at Chris Topp's workshop for a documentary about the Eiffel Tower called 'Monumental Challenges'. Blink captured the works and explained how this iconic monument has stood the test of time, and why its use of wrought iron was so important. Blink filmed the processes we still use, which would have been used in the making of the 7,300 tonnes of wrought iron for the Eiffel Tower's construction.
The series 'Monumental Challenges' is on the History Channel.
Chris Topp & Co, known for restoring ancient ironwork using recycled Victorian and earlier wrought iron, has recently hosted a workshop for architects and conservation officers as part of a three day course run by the National Heritage Ironwork Group, based at the Kings Manor in York, to equip them with essential facts needed for the writing of restoration specifications.
The participants, from all over the country, were shown restoration projects that Chris Topp was working on, including the restoration of the 'Golden Gates' from Elvaston Castle. These gates were erected in 1819 at the south end of the castles formal gardens. They were brought from the Palace of Versailles by Charles Stanhope, 3rd Earl of Harrington, and were a good illustration for the group to appreciate that the specification for repairs is very important. The repair work, done using the correct materials and techniques, should last a hundred years with only routine maintenance. If inferior materials and modern day methods were used the may last only thirty years or less.
The company worked for Wates at Somerset House from September 2010 on the East Wing of the Grade I listed building, repairing and or replacing all the original fireplaces. Work was due to be completed in the late spring.
Chris Topp & Company is the only blacksmith company still rolling and supplying genuine wrought iron and employs a unique team of traditional craftsmen, which regularly undertakes commissions to restore ancient works of wrought iron work in parks, cathedrals and great buildings in this country.
Chris Topp & Co is looking to buy, at well over the current scrap value, any old wrought iron. For example: anchor chain, anchors, gasholder tie bars, iron bridges and even old iron railings are of interest. The company can tell whether it is wrought iron from a photograph, site visit or sample. Please make contact when dismantling old structures which might contain wrought iron for disposal.
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 CRAPPER HITS THE SUN FRONT PAGE IN ROYAL WEDDING FRENZY
The Venerable pedestal wash-down closet made by Thomas Crapper & Co was on the front page The Sun newspaper last Friday as the salacious and not so salacious press gropes for any story with the words Kate Middleton and Prince William in it.
On the night before the wedding Ms Middleton will sleep in a newly refurbished apartment at the Goring Hotel with, we are guessing, a modern replica of The Venerable, aptly described by Sun journos as 'The Throne'.
Of the Venerable, Thomas Crapper's catalogue states, 'In style and detail this W.C. is exactly the same as a Victorian orginal, but with the exception of the Horizontal Outlet to suit modern plumbing practice. It is hand-cast and hand-finished using the best Vitreous China clay and glazes. Great attention is paid to the mouldings, as it is particularly difficult to achieve the definition of the Victorian originals when using modern Vitreous clays. (Vitreous China is now employed because it is impermeable, unlike the clays used by the Victorians which sometimes crazed and subsequently leaked). We are proud to reintroduce the Victorian practice of giving each model of W.C. a name, hence 'The Venerable'. Sometimes the name was displayed on the front of the rim. This we have also revived. Our transfers are authentically detailed and are fired into the glaze, so are smooth to the touch, as in the past.' The catalogue list price for the pan is £495 and another £495 for the oak or mahogany seat which, from the photo looks like mahogany.
Thomas Crapper recommend the oak one due to the vagaries of ethical supply. Again, from the catalogue, 'TROPICAL HARDWOOD. Despite considerable research, we remain to be convinced that tropical hardwoods of quality are available from genuinely 'renewable' or 'ethical' sources. We found some supplies which had almost the right credentials but we were unable to obtain the quality or sizes required. Most tropical timber brought into this country comes with 'official' certificates bearing impressive stamps and endorsements, perhaps intended to give peace of mind to those with ethical concerns. Frankly, we look upon them with some cynicism. THEREFORE - we recommend OAK. This wood is entirely 'correct' and authentic, as it was a popular choice for Victorian and Edwardian bathrooms.
Today, it is subject to few of the concerns raised by the use of hardwoods from the tropics. Nevertheless, we appreciate that sometimes only mahogany will do, especially if existing woodwork in the bathroom is to be matched. BUT - if in doubt, CHOOSE OAK!'
No-one from Thomas Crapper was available for comment (on Good Friday) so it is unknown if the company was pleased with its coverage and has been overwhelmed with orders by Sun-reading royalists.
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BOOKS: AGAINST ALL ODDS BY JULIE EURICH
Set between quiet rural England and the madness of LA, 'Against All Odds' is a true story of a young English woman's 8 year battle for full custody of her 2 year old son. An emotional roller coaster ride, involving a psychopathic Ex. This plot discovers a world of under cover agents, illegal guns, class A drugs and prostitutes. It points out some of the difficulties and frustrations of International Law and takes a look at The Hague Treaty and its laws regarding child abduction. This is a 'must' read for all of those youngsters before they go off on their ' year out traveling' and would make anyone take a longer, harder look at our world as a global village and our choice of setting up a family abroad. In today's global village, this is a 'must' read for the education of young women around the world. [Publisher's statement
A reviewer, Neville, was captured by the following, 'Conkers, these beautiful shiny round seeds that kids take to battle in the playground. The sound of crows in the spinney on a miserable grey day. Accents that change ever so slightly, every 5 miles or so. Poppy fields. Cow shit. Galones Ice cream van ringing its obnoxious bell on a hot Saturday morning"
This books is about the child custody battle between Berdine Lavoy, owner of European Reclamation and Historic Tile Co in Los Angeles, and his estranged English wife Julie Eurich who is now running a ceramic tile company in Northamptonshire UK. In their heyday the couple supplied tiles to many prestige projects in the USA as well as to the Tower of London.
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 TOO MUCH GARDEN FURNITURE AND UNWANTED SUNSHINE AT GAZE'S
"It was far too sunny," said expert in charge, Carl Willows of T W Gaze in Diss about the architectural sale on 16 April. "And an incredible amount of garden furniture, just so much of it. There were also more trade than private bidders this time, and only so much garden furniture a group of people will buy. So I was a little disappointed in the 73 per cent sold by lot which is lower than normal."
A batch of 42.65sqyds of York flagstones sold for £4,400 (plus 12.5% BP +vat) roughly £103sqyd. This batch was good but not of the highest quality which has seen prices hit £192sqyd at Gaze's this year. "Every time we have a good batch there are three or four bidders who miss out, and they often come back and bid next time. I agree that the consistency of the prices achieved relative to quality is slightly uncanny," Mr. Willows said.
A 4ft millstone 6ins thick made £460, an oblong Coalbrookdale table base without top £1,400, a York stone trough 64ins by 30ins by 20ins with a flattened D front rounded edges £1,450, the Biddulph Old Hall sundial got away this time at £4,000, and a batch of 44sqyds of oak boards £2,500. There were also some post-auction sales including the figure of Saint Anthony of Padua which made £1,250.
Carl Willows plans to bring an elephant and a rhinocerous to this year's Salvo Fair, prior to their sale at the Architectural Sale the following Saturday 2 July 2011.
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 TRITONS TRUMPET GARDEN SUCCESS AT DREWEATTS
A pair of terracotta tritons made £8,000 against a £6,000 lower estimate, which topped the twenty-eight lot garden section, mainly consigned by Wishlist Antiques, in Dreweatt's sale at Donnington Priory on 19 April. A pair of French marble columns with bronze caps and bases sold for £4,800 (est £3,000), a pair of lions for £3,200 (est £1,000), a bronze stag and hind £3,500 (est £800), and a pair of Thomason stoneware rockwork fountains £6,500 (est £5,000) . Three-quarters of the lots sold, with the Phocion and carved stone armorial panel notable exceptions.
The pair of terracotta models of tritons were in the Baroque manner, third quarter 19th century, probably after designs by Heinrich Baron von Ferstel, one portrayed with a horn raised to his lips, the other grasping a trident, both with pronounced torso musculature and horse's forelegs and hooves drawn up before them, with wings and curled tails behind. They were believed to have come from the stock exchange building in Vienna by Heinrich Ferstel. The centaur (horse with man's body) or triton (fish with man's body) were both liminal beings - a compromise between man and animal - appropriate iconography for Vienna in the 1870s which was coping with the Austro-Hungarian Compromise of 1867, a political solution to a territorial problem.
Most of the lots in the sale were stocks of the late John Hobbs, and as such may have been estimated low, mired in the wake of the controversy of the Dennis Buggins restoration exposé. An Italian metal and pietra dura mirror sold for £25,000 (est £2,000), a 20thC marble table top estimated at £200 sold for £7,000, and a colossal 8ft diameter 6ft high chandelier, carved and silvered wood fourteen light, in Continental 18th century style, with eight scrolling acanthus branches above a further six similar branches, sold for £17,000.
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 OLD PINE BARGEBORDS CHEAP AT CAMEO
What appeared to be some, maybe three, decorative Victorian carved pine bargeboards sold at Cameo Auctions of Berkshire for £30 (plus 15% BP live, 18% BP online) estimated at £50-£80. The sale, entitled 'Victorian Pine and Architectural Items' was a clear out by a restorer or stripper, and had plenty of unrestored antique pine furniture including an 11ft pine table which sold for £650 (est £100). Of the more architectural lots, a pair of painted terracotta Corinthian pilaster capitals sold for £320 (est £80), and two lots of stained leaded glass 'in the style of William Morris' sold for £700 and £420 (est £100, £50).
Note about bargeboards: Wikipedia states: 'Bargeboard (probably from Medieval Latin bargus, or barcus, a scaffold, and not from the now obsolete synonym vergeboard, is a board fastened to the projecting gables of a roof to give them strength and to mask, hide and protect the otherwise exposed end of the horizontal timbers or purlins of the roof to which they were attached. Bargeboards are sometimes moulded only or carved, but as a rule the lower edges were cusped and had tracery in the spandrels besides being otherwise elaborated.' Traditionally, bargeboards were left exposed if they were hardwood or sometimes painted black, dark brown or green, if they were softwood. They were never painted white - a modern invention which quickly rots exposed otherwise sound wood - as discovered by Henry Ford whose apocryphal 'You can have it any colour you like as long as it's black' was the result of many years study of longevity and durability of paint colour.
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THE ART OF FLOORING
With the much anticipated opening of the new Zaha Hadid designed Glasgow Riverside Transport Museum just around the corner local artist Patricia Cain has been tasked with documenting the unfolding construction works over the last two years.
With over 100 drawings, paintings and sculptures completed an exhibition of these works is opening in the Kelvingrove Museum and Art Gallery on Friday April 15th and running until August 14th 2011.
Having supplied the artist with a selection of our 110mm reclaimed Clyde Oak flooring for use in this art installation the team at McKay Flooring Ltd would like to extend our best wishes to Patricia and all involved in the exhibition.
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COMMENTS SOUGHT ON CMRA RECYCLING CERTIFICATION IN USA
A new Certification Program for Reuse and Recycling of Building Materials is proposed by the USA Construction Materials Recycling Association (CMRA). Public comment is sought on the first version of the national Certification of Recycling Rates (CORR) program guidelines by April 20, 2011.
The CORR program is a national third-party certification program designed to verify building materials debris reuse and recycling rates by construction and demolition reuse and recycling facilities operating in the USA.
The CORR certification standards were developed by the CMRA and a stakeholder group involving environmental non-profits, architects, academia, government agencies and the recycling industry. The CORR will provide the C&D reuse and recycling industry with a means to communicate their management of construction-related materials debris to the general public and the construction industry. It will provide confidence to the general public and the construction industry of the reuse and recycling rates reported by C&D reuse and recycling facilities. The goals of the certification program include:
• Provide a procedure for accurately accounting for the materials inputs and outputs of a C&D reuse or recycling facility.
• To provide an objective and transparent process for eligible firms seeking to communicate their reuse and recycling of C&D materials.
• To provide users of certified facilities an assurance that the procedures and reuse and recycling declarations are consistently applied and verified.
The certification begins with an application by the firm, and either the qualification of procedures in place, or establishing the procedures required to measure and report the facility's materials flow. The certification process includes site visit(s) and the verification by a third-party certification entity of the quantities and types of reused or recycled materials produced by the facility on a monthly and annual basis. Outputs are classified as:
• Reuse
• Recycle
• Bio-Fuel
• Alternative Daily Cover
• Disposal
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DEFINITIONS OF REUSE AND RECYCLING - AND THEIR RELATIONSHIP WITH WASTE
There is confusion as to how to define reuse, recycling and waste with respect to everyday terminology, and EU and UK laws and regulations. In everyday language you can reuse something which would otherwise end up as waste, but in EU law anything which will be reused cannot, by definition, be waste. So reused objects can never be waste in EU, and therefore UK, law. However, you can recycle waste by making something else out of it.
This is intended to be a discussion document, so please add any comments or alternative definitions in the comments section below.
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Definition of Reuse and Recycling for the forthcoming BS8905 Guidance on the sustainable use of materials, 2011: Thornton Kay's suggestion wording is:
Reuse is the use of an antique, reclaimed or salvaged product, using relatively small amounts of usually human energy, and saving a substantial amount of the embodied energy of the original product. An example of reuse would be the careful removal and cleaning of bricks during the demolition of a building and prior to their reuse as reclaimed bricks. Reuse is usually, or ideally, a completely or nearly reversible process. Reuse includes handmade and low-tech recrafting or remanufacturing, such as the sawing of reclaimed timber beams into planks for use as flooring or joinery. The removal of unused new products from the waste stream and their first use is also considered reuse. An example could be the recovery of over-purchased or remaindered new bricks from a skip at a new building project and their resale at a social enterprise secondhand store for reuse by a customer in another building project.
Recycling is the creation of a new product, normally using large amounts of mechanical or thermal process energy to convert the feedstock material derived from a previous or past use. The embodied energy of the original feedstock material is normally destroyed. Recycling is usually a completely or nearly irreversible process. An example of recycling would be the mechanised crushing and screening of bricks from demolition to create a weak aggregate substitute. Recycling includes mechanised and high-tech remanufacturing such as the chipping of scrap dimensional timber to provide a mulch for municipal flower beds.
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EU Waste Framework Directive 2008
're-use' (sic) means any operation by which products or components that are not waste are used again for the same purpose for which they were conceived;
'recycling' means any recovery operation by which waste materials are reprocessed into products, materials or substances whether for the original or other purposes. It includes the reprocessing of organic material but does not include energy recovery and the reprocessing into materials that are to be used as fuels or for backfilling operations;
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Institute of Civil Engineers Demolition Protocol 2008
To Reuse: Buildings/infrastructure, products, components etc recovered for use without reprocessing activities or alterations to their characteristics. In situ reuse could refer to the refurbishment of a building, involving the reuse of the steel frame, without any disassembly. Ex situ reuse is synonymous with reclamation, and involves the disassembly or removal of products/components prior to their reuse.
To Recycle: To take a product/component (e.g. concrete block) and, because of the nature and characteristics of its constituent material, put it through a reprocessing activity. The output will be a material which can then be used in a range of products and applications, including its previous use.
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Pushing Reuse by T Kay, BioRegional 2009
Reuse in construction takes place when building material is carefully dismantled, removed and reclaimed, usually with simple tools and hand labour which expend low process energy. The reclaimed material is then reused, largely in its originally manufactured state, and often for its original purpose.
Recycling takes place when buildings materials are collected during demolition to be re‐processed into lower quality materials.
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EU ICLD Handbook: General guide for Life Cycle Assessment - Detailed guidance, p343, EU 2010
Terms and concepts: Reuse/recycling/recovery and secondary good
Methodologically, all the different forms of e.g. reuse, recycling, and recovery of energy are
equivalent in LCA. This covers e.g. reprocessing of production waste, regeneration of
nuclear fuels, restoration of buildings, reclaiming or recovering energy, reusing and further
using of parts or goods, refitting of parts for other goods, repair, rehash, etc. To ease
reading, all these forms are reusing/recycling/recovery document, unless specifically differentiated. A common cover term could not be identified and the most
widely understood term "recycling" was found incorrect as being too narrow.
Note that the terms used here do not imply any legal meaning but relate exclusively to the
use in LCA methodology.
The product of these processes i.e. the recycled material, recovered energy, or reused or
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USA Design for Reuse Primer, p3, Public Architecture 2010
Reused, or reclaimed, materials are materials extracted from the waste stream and repurposed without further processing or with only minor processing that does not alter the material's nature. Old bricks cleaned of their mortar and used to create a new facade, wood beams remilled into flooring, and wood from packing crates fashioned into window trim are all examples of reuse. Reuse is not to be confused with recycling. Recycling also involves removal of materials from the waste stream, but those materials undergo significant processing to con- vert them into new products. Waste paper reduced to pulp and then combined with pulp from new wood to produce new paper is a form of recycling.
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MaryEllen Etienne (Reuse Alliance, USA):
Reuse is extending the life of an item by using it more than once (same or new function). This includes conventional reuse where the item is used again as-is for the same function it was manufactured for, refurbishing/remanufacturing where an item is re-conditioned and used for the same function, or upcycling/repurposing where the addition of creativity brings a new function. In contrast, recycling is the breaking down of the used item into raw materials which are used to make new items. By taking useful products and exchanging them, without reprocessing, reuse help us save time, money, energy and resources. In broader economic terms, reuse offers quality products to people and organizations with limited means, while generating jobs and business activity that contribute to the economy.
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