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 FOOTBALL SHIRT REUSE BRINGS JOY
When football clubs replace their kit for a new season or players move on to a new club a hardly used football shirt can suddenly go out of date. So what can a football supporter do with the old one? An alternative to abandoning the shirt at the back of a wardrobe would be to donate it to Afrikit.
Afrikit is a charity bringing the joy of owning your own football shirt to poor children and adults in Africa. Apart from the fun side a football shirt can also help to bring communities back together. Shirts donated in 2010 are now being worn to play football in Kenya, Tanzania and Lesotho.
Afrikit is interested in all donations whatever the age, size or quality. The charity even takes shorts and socks as well. Collection points are located in Decathlon stores around the UK. But co- founder, Jack Hands, said Afrikit is ' looking to expand, so is actively seeking partners who will put shirt bins up for us! '
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 PULPIT ON THE MOVE
Finally worked out how to have a nice collage of pictures (thanks, Photobucket) rather than the opaque system Tumblr provides (no offence, and thanks for the free service anyway). And to celebrate here is a little action sequence showing our marvellous boys in action moving a pulpit base in a church near Guildford.
It was that worst of all church jobs - a building site. And while we did not actually see anybody doing any work while we were there - tea drinking, paper reading, aimless wandering and watching us was as good as it got - the builders had nonetheless managed to rip up all the flooring just before we turned up to remove the 8ft high pulpit. Thanks for that.
This meant that we had to move the thing old style; busting it up and dragging it off. As I had done my back in a couple of days previously - sneezing, believe it or not - I restricted myself to undoing some of the x hundred screws that the OCD Victorian nutter carpenters had used to make this thing, and taking out of focus pictures of our follically challenged crew scuttling towards the exit. Wa-hey! Wish I had done a little film, then you would get the sound effects as well. Tucked inside the pulpit was a little time capsule envelope of stuff, I will scan soon and this can be the next installment of the exciting Frimley Pulpit Series.
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 BAG FOR LIFE
If you love style but care about the environment then why not take a look at ethical fashion. The Ethical Fashion Programme has collaborated with Vivienne Westwood in her 2011 SpringSummer bag collection. The bags made from reused fabric are all one of a kind and also help women in Africa.
The women make the bags from advertisement banners and safari tents in Nairobi, Kenya. The aim of the programme is to empower the women through quality work that also minimises the negative impact on the environment. It also enables the community to build a skilled workforce to raise living standards for the future. The Africa get-a-life shopping bag is one that will last you a lifetime too.
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FREE PRE-DEMOLITION AUDIT TRAINING OFFERED BY BIOREGIONAL
BioRegional Reclaimed has organised two free pre-demolition and reclamation audit workshops, in Ashford on 23 February and Oxford on 23 March, using a reclamation-led approach to demolition with real life case studies that provide practical guidance.
With the rising costs of disposal of construction waste the demolition phase of a development can offer a major opportunity for measurable savings. By identifying construction material that can be reused, a developer can reduce the amount of waste sent for disposal as well as contribute to organisational carbon targets and wider sustainability objectives.
With an audience composed of all sectors of the construction chain, from procurement and design to build, this workshop will not only introduce new ideas but will also allow delegates to understand the perspectives and perceived constraints of material reclamation for other sectors of the construction industry.
Bring outdoor gear because after a morning of introduction and training the delegates will use their knowledge to carry out a visual inspection of a site in the venue area.
Programme led by Jonathan Essex, BioRegional:
09.00 Arrive for coffee
09.30 Introduction and Welcome
09.40 ICE Demolition Protocol
10.00 Waste Minimisation and Reuse best practice
10.30 Carbon Accounting
11.00 Coffee
11.20 The Pre-demolition audit toolkit and Reclamation Surveys
12.00 Worked examples
12.30 Questions and Answers
13.00 Lunch
14.00 Off site deconstruction and Pre-demolition audit
15.00 Best Practice case studies and contract clauses
16.00 End
This project is part funded by the South East England Development Agency (SEEDA) and European Regional Development Funding (ERDF) as part of the South East ERDF Competitiveness Programme 2007-13.
Free registration: Email Matt dot Sullivan at BioRegional dot com or Tel: 020 8404 4238.
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 RECLAIMED BRICK CAVERN CELEBRATES BEATLES ANNIVERSARY
The Cavern club is today celebrating the fiftieth anniversary of the first appearance of The Beatles on 9 February 1961.
In 2007 the Cavern celebrated its 50th birthday with a 13 hour party. The Beatles played hundreds of gigs at the Cavern Club between 1961 and 1963. The original club was located in the cellars of an old Victorian warehouse which was demolished in 1973 to allow a shaft to be built for the Mersey underground railway Link improvement. In 1983 it was decided that the Cavern should be rebuilt, following the death of John Lennon, a few yards away from its original location, reusing some of the old bricks reclaimed from the original demolition. Over 15,000 secondhand bricks from the old Cavern were reused in the reconstruction. Some salvaged bricks were taken by locals and 5,000 were sold by site owners the Royal Life company in 1983 for £7 each. A plaque certifying their authenticity was glued to each antique brick with the proceeds being donated to a local charity. All of the reclaimed bricks were sold, and in the late 1980s one Cavern brick was said to have been resold for over £500 by Sotheby's.
[source SalvoNEWS 17 Jan 2007, inc Beatles Cavern video and brick authentication plaques
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 STREETVIEW SHOOTS VERSAILLES, UFFIZI AND OTHER MAJOR GALLERIES
Google's Streetview technology has been used to create virtual tours of world class galleries in a scheme known as Art Project. The tours are cranky, if anything worse than streetview's normal output, but hey, they do seem to work, albeit slowly and jerkily.
Some of the galleries paintings, but none of their sculptures, are presented in gigapixel form, where miniscule close-ups are possible. A stroll around the Palace of Versailles and its garden can be made with the marble ornament, which is clearly visible at a distance, rendered blurry close-up. So too with the Uffizi in Florence, where the galleries can be scrolled through, showing its layouts and the wealth of antique sculpture it possesses, but without being able to see it too close.
The copyright of the gigapixel images is owned by the galleries which could choose whichever paintings they wished to appear in close-up. The museumview tour is copyright Google.
The Tate Gallery blog contains a description of how Google did it, written by project manager James Davies:
'The version of Street View technology used in the galleries involved an extremely high tech and rather silly-looking trolley. It was to be pushed around the rooms at a particular speed and on a peculiar route, and seemed to me to be a marvellous combination of garden-shed and cutting-edge. Changing the battery, at 23 kilos each, they were not fun to carry around. The trolley was not simple. It had lasers and cameras and GPS and all sorts. You could not stand in its view, for fear of being captured. Yet it could see you, left right, up down, back and forth and everywhere in between. So it must be operated by a squirrel (a trained man with a perfectly shaped back) who hides in its visual wake and guides it through the rooms. Then you have to be completely out of sight. Which is interesting when you are trying to oversee the logistics of the operation. And in an empty museum at 2am you begin to think that this rule of not seeing what is going on provides perfect cover for some daring and complex ploy to steal a masterpiece. And that must be what the lasers and cameras and GPS are for. The best way to monitor progress was on our security cameras. The team worked diligently charting their peculiar route through each gallery, trying not to slow down in front of paintings they liked, while I scurried about moving stepladders and other bits that might look as if people actually worked in the museum after hours (they do). It not only knew where it was, it knew where it had been (blue lines) and where people where hiding (green dots). The cyber-trolley's all-seeing eye captured me at one point as I attempted to dip out of view, and of course I am secretly delighted to be immortalised albeit with a blob for a head.'
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BANTER COULD RESULT IN COMPENSATION UNDER THE EQUALITY ACT
Customers and staff who find the banter in UK salvage yards offensive may be entitled to compensation under the Equality Act, according to Linda Stewart, of Simpson Millar, and Julius Erolin of Equality Works, who write in Jonathan Moules 'Business Questions' column in the FT on 5 Feb 2011.
An intimidating, hostile, degrading, humiliating or offensive environment, and jokes or banter about age, race, gender reassignment, disability, religion or belief, and sex or sexual orientation, could now provoke a claim for compensation.
Preventative measures, including making it clear to all staff that harassment and certain jokes and banter are unacceptable, will help a business defend an action for compensation. Workplaces free from harassment are generally more productive and innovative. Stewart and Erolin do not mention whether workplaces free of jokes and banter are more productive. Inclusive workplaces also tend to identify and correct safety issues faster and more effectively than others.
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 STUNNING GLASS STAIRCASE SMASHED DURING DECONSTRUCTION
A glass staircase broke during dismantling after it failed to sell on SalvoWEB for £3,000, and sold instead on eBay for £1,575.
On 15 January 2011 the owner, who needed to remove the staircase as part of a property renovation, placed an enhanced listing on SalvoWEB costing £30 inc vat. The owner wrote that it was an 'amazing glass and metal stair case, tempered glass to the side, impeccable quality which must have cost £25,000 new. If you are planning, building, contemplating, dreaming of a loft or new house or conversion I urge you to consider fitting this stunning bit of work. It was the most stand-out feature when we viewed this property but unlike the couple we bought from we have three kids, a dog and need a new bedroom and simply can't accomodate this awesome feature. This is a hugely expensive addition to any project, but we have no way to utilize it and I'd love someone to take advantage of this chance to procure a seriously luxurious extra for a great price. We plan to have it removed by our builders so it will be ready for collection from late-January onwards.'
The Salvo ad received 33 visitors over the next five days, one of which wanted to buy, but by then things had moved on and the owner had already decided to put it on an unreserved eBay auction starting at £10, and cancelled the SalvoWEB ad. The owner wrote, 'eBay appealed as it had a bidding process rather than me offering it at a price, but I foolishly listed it at dawn so it finished at 6am on Sunday (23rd January) which was an error.' It may have been better to have ended it in the evening. In the end six people had bid, with the winner getting the staircase for £1,575. The eBay listing had 160 views, probably from around 50 visitors, over the three days of the auction.
Then disaster struck after the auction was over and the staircase was being dismantling. 'The staircase shattered upon removal - which was tragic! The winner was a private buyer some distance away who was trying to incorporate it into a renovation project. The buyer is still going to take the steps and metal, despite the damage, but only for a nominal cost.'
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 A READER ASKS: CAN I REMOVE AND SELL MY EDWARDIAN FIREPLACE?
A reader asked: I have just moved house and would like to remove one of the Edwardian fireplaces. I'm not sure if it is slate or marble as it is covered in white gloss paint. Can this be removed and sold?
Salvo's reply
Salvo recommends that intact original fixtures should not be removed from old houses. However, the UK salvage trade exists because when items are inevitably removed, it is better that they are reused than destroyed and landfilled, to preserve their historic value, and from the environmental viewpoint of giving a good item the chance of a second life.
Can your fireplace be removed and sold? It is likely that the fireplace can be sold, but can it be legally removed? The answer is probably yes, but if your home is listed or in a conservation area you should check with your Council's listed buildings department first. Removing a legally-protected item from a building or garden is a criminal offence.
Can the white gloss paint be removed? This depends on whether the fireplace is made from marble, which is relatively tough, or from enamelled slate, which is a softer with a brittle polished asphalt coat, easily dissolved with solvents or abraded with scourers or scrapers.
If the fireplace is made of marble the paint can be fairly easily and carefully removed with an alkali-based chemical paint stripper, then washed with cream bathroom cleaner, dried and polished with a light colourless beeswax or white wax polish.
If the fireplace is made of slate, the original decoration is probably intact underneath the paint, with black enamelled surfaces and possibly gilding, marbling and oil painting. This is definitely worth keeping but would almost certainly be destroyed by paint stripping unless this is done with meticulous care using gentle scraping and poultice-type strippers. Try a tiny inconspicuous area first before embarking on the whole fireplace to make sure your method will work. The end result may be so good that you decide to leave your fireplace in-situ.
Stripped slate fireplaces (where the enamel has been removed) do have a value, but this is less than ones with the original enamel intact. Some salvage businesses strip and redecorate marble fire surrounds with modern marbling effects.
We are not aware of anyone who offers a commercial service to clean paint off enamelled slate fire surrounds whilst preserving the enamel because it is so time-consuming and prone to failure. We would be very keen to hear of any proven methods or materials used to strip enamelled slate fireplaces where there is a reasonable guarantee that the enamel will be left intact.
Don't forget the Salvo Fair: There are usually several enamel slate fire surrounds for sale at the annual Salvo Fair at Knebworth on 25th - 26th June 2011 (also open Friday 24th for Trade Only).
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CLEVE WEST CHOOSES RECLAIMED COTSWOLD SETTS FOR CHELSEA FLOWER SHOW
The Daily Telegraph's show garden at Chelsea this year is being designed and built by Cleve West who has chosen to use reclaimed Cotswold stone, supplied by Darren Jones of Lichen Garden Antiques in Gloucestershire.
The sunken garden will have a traditional feel with dry stone walls, coursed vertically, and setts or flagstones, coupled with stone column sculptures from southern France, gargoyle spouts and a rill.
"It hints at a ruin, verging on the traditional but then veers off into contemporary. There's nothing new at Chelsea, it's all been done before, but I hope people will get the new combination," Cleve West said.
Among the plantings will be self-seeded parsnips from his allotment at Bushey Park which he grew to eat at Christmas but decided instead to keep them and their umbelliferous yellow flowers for an appearance in the garden at Chelsea.
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 BARBARA ISRAEL SHINES AT WINTER ANTIQUES SHOW
Barbara Israel of the eponymous Garden Antiques was exhibiting at the Park Avenue Armory Winter Antiques Show in January. Carol Stocker of the Boston Globe was effusive:
If you are in New York and a fan of garden antiques, stop by at the Barbara Israel Garden Antiques booth at the famous annual Winter Antiques Show, which is at the Park Avenue Armory at 67th Street through Jan. 30.
Her stuff is amazing! When I was there at the preview last week, the show stopper was a 19th century bas relief carved marble Italian wellhead with a bronze overthrow of floral design. Planting containers included a pair of mid-19th century Versailles urns by the Paris based Durenne foundry, on pedestals. and a terra-cotta planter ornamented by entwined serpents from traditional Celtic design which was designed by Arts & Crafts Symbolist Mary Seton Watts and exhibited at the 1893 Colombian Exposition in Chicago. The always popular animal sculptures included a cast iron Newfoundland and stone panther, both life size. And amusing giant stone frog was from the 1950's but most articles more made in the 19th century and brought over from Europe by garden lovers on the Grand Tour.
The garden ornaments and artwork was selling fast and the price tags were hefty. But Barbara Israel Garden Antiques has also come out with a line of affordable reproductions of its treasures, called Garden Traditions. Visit the website at www.gardentraditions.us for information. The Massachusetts dealer is Tracker Home Decor of Pease's Point Way in South Edgartown. Original antiques can be viewed by appointment at Katonah, NY., where Barbara Israel also puts out a scholarly newsletter, Focal Points.
Barbara Israel has long been a leading expert on the subject of garden antiques and ornaments. Her 1999 book, "Antique Garden Ornament; Two Centuries of America Taste," was a groundbreaking work, noted Ronald Lee Fleming of the Townscape Institute in Cambridge, who also attended the opening.
"I wanted people to realize it was a serious academic art," Israel said when we talked at the show, which is the most prestigious of its kind in the country. She traces her interest to childhood. "One of my grandmothers would take me to an estate in New Jersey which had nine foot tall statues of the first 12 Roman Emperors. My sister and I would play and peek out around them. I was curious why they were there."
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 MIDDLESBROUGH CATHEDRAL MOSAICS APPEAR ON EBAY
Two wall mosaics from the walls of Middlesbrough's St Mary's Roman Catholic Cathedral when it burned down in 2000 are being sold for £3,700 on eBay by UK Architectural Antiques.
The mosaics date back to the 1820s and survived the cathedral's arson attack in 2000.
Becky Litherland, from UKAA in Staffordshire, said: "These are two impressive mosaics and are in good condition. We are expecting a lot of interest. As they are tiled and quite old, it would take an awful lot for them to be damaged, which is why they survived the fire." The mosaics were still intact on a wall after the fire and were professionally removed. "This was done by boarding either side of the mosaic with thick sheets of plywood," said Becky. The wall was removed, laid flat then carefully cut away. "Layers of fibreglass and resins have been used to bond the rear of the mosaics and to secure them to mesh frames," said Becky.
St Mary's Cathedral, which was built between 1876 and 1878, stood in Sussex Street in St Hilda's.
[source Middlesbrough Gazette
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RIBA JOURNAL SUGGESTS SALVAGE-USING ARCHITECTS SHOULD THINK DIFFERENTLY
Eat your heart out Albert Steptoe: architects and clients alike are seeking discarded materials for their buildings, driven by environmental concerns, the recession and the look of it. But it's more than cosmetic: if you want to use recycled stuff in your project you'll have to start thinking differently about design, writes Eleanor Young, executive editor, in the latest RIBA Journal.
When Martin Pawley wrote Garbage Housing in 1975 he thought of using all sorts of consumer waste, from car tyres and body parts, the Heineken World Bottle which stacked as a brick and newsprint cores. But there's an easier way: use waste from the construction industry.
Some of this is very simple, you just need to specify the right thing; recycled steel, PFA in your concrete or ground glass as an aggregate. But at the next level down, mainly small projects with private clients, it gets more direct. Ebay, Salvoweb, builderscrap.com, local skips, your own reject pile and the contractor's other sites are the main sources for this sort of project. At the moment it tends to be driven by ideology, or the idea of saving money on materials - it requires dedication, investigation, thinking on your feet and plenty of design flexibility.
[source RIBA Journal
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 GRAND DESIGNS SALVAGE BARGE'S UNSCHEDULED VOYAGE
Chris Miller and Sze Liu's converted barge, which featured on Grand Designs in 2007, broke free from its moorings in Southend and was washed up at Westcliff on Sea.
Known as the Medway EcoBarge, it failed to impress Kevin McCloud, who disliked the owner's adhoc approach and reluctance to work to a formal design, and described it as a floating scrapheap challenge.
The boat is believed to have been vandalised and used by squatters and partygoers in recent months. It has since been towed back to its moorings.
The £80,000 project ran into cash problems and the couple, both social workers, abandoned the idea of living in it but Mr. Miller had plans to start work on it again this spring, however the estimated £70,000 worth of damage done to it by vandals means this is apparently no longer viable.
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 WOODEN NICKEL SALVAGES HISTORIC CINCINNATI TILEWORKS
Preserving this piece of Cincinnati history was a job most contractors would not be interested in even bidding on due to possible damage and difficulty according to Michael Williams, owner of Wooden Nickel Antiques. But Williams has done it before.
The decorative tile fountain was installed on a wall in the Wheatley Tile showroom building when it was built in the early 1920s. It was laid tile by tile on a brick wall covered with a two inch veneer of concrete set on two levels. The top half was in the entrance hall and the bottom half was about two feet lower in the original showroom and set in concrete. Since the concrete is harder than the tiles and the tiles tend to break, the removal of the entire wall was required to remove the fountain intact. Williams secured the salvage contract with less than two weeks to go before demolition.
T. J. Wheatley began his career in Cincinnati in the early 1870s working for Dayton Street/Coulton Pottery. In 1879 the Cincinnati Pottery Company was formed as a vehicle for Wheatley and his students. By the end of 1880 Wheatley was successfully selling to Tiffany & Co and he worked for Weller in 1897. In 1903 Wheatley and Isaac Kahn formed the Wheatley Pottery Company making art pottery, garden ware and architectural items. It was in the lobby of this company's showroom that the fountain was installed.
Williams and Wooden Nickel have a history of fountain removal having successfully removed several fountains made by famous Arts & Crafts artist Ernest Batchelder. In the 1980s the firm acquired and removed a seven foot figural fountain designed by Clement Barnhorn for the Cincinnati pottery firm Rookwood. That fountain now resides in the Cincinnati Art Museum.
In seven days of non-stop work beginning in early October 2010 Wooden Nickel's experienced crew of concrete cutters, riggers and craftsmen shored up the ceiling and freed the wall from the foundation to build a protective wooden crate around it and the fountain with heavy duty stretch wrap around excelsior protective packing underneath. Then a metal frame was welded around the crate so it could be lifted out of place using three 2,000 pound chain hoists. The 4,000 pound package was then tipped on its side to make the journey out the door to the truck.
In addition to the fountain the project included the salvage of the pair of 9 foot tall mosaic tile columns with gilt Corinthian capitols that originally flanked the fountain, a pair of bronze exterior sconces that were on each side of the massive entrance door with a bronze grill and a pair of impressive 9 foot tall oak arched doors. A number of 6 by 6 inch Wheatley decorative tiles from around the showroom and many decorative floor tiles, including two cold air returns depicting parrots, were recovered.
When cleaned and prepared all of the artifacts from this historical building will be displayed in the Wooden Nickel Antiques showrooms in Cincinnati located at 1400-1414 Central Parkway. Wooden Nickel deals primarily in 19th and 20th century decorative arts and has made a name for itself in art and artifacts with a Cincinnati provenance such as Cincinnati Art Carved furniture, works by local artist T. C. Lindsay, works by 19th century Cincinnati craftsmen Mitchell and Rammelsberg, items from the Cincinnati Artistic Iron Works and many examples from Cincinnati's turn of the century leaded glass studios.
For more information contact Wooden Nickel at (513) 241-2985, email woodennickel@fuse.net or visit the website.
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THE DEMOLITION OF DUKINFIELD
SeftonWallet, who placed this on his YouTube account, writes, 'Home movie footage of Dukinfield near Manchester being demolished in the name of regeneration. Filmed by Elsie Roscoe late 1960s or 1970. The music is The Dolly Suite by Gabriel Faure, probably familiar to those of a certain age as the the theme to Listen with Mother.'
Dukinfield is part of the Manchester borough of Tameside, with a cotton mill and coal mining heritage. The deepest coal mine in the world, the Astley Deep Pit at 2,100ft, was located there.
Note the flagstones stacked up in front of the derelict houses looking as if these were the only things that were reclaimed.
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 FRN SEE 'BIG SOCIETY' AS AN OPPORTUNITY FOR PUSHING REUSE
The coalition government's 'Big Society' represents a major opportunity for reuse organisations to deliver more services with both the public and private sector, according to the Furniture Reuse Network.
As the FRN published its business plan for 2011-14 last week, the Network's chief executive, Craig Anderson, highlighted the government's agenda for involving communities more in delivering services as one of a number of ways the sector could establish a "pioneering service". The business plan outlines how the FRN plans to develop its activities between now and 2014. "There are major opportunities in areas such as working with the commercial and public sectors, working on welfare to work provision, with prisons and within the Big Society agenda as a whole. It's a major opportunity to establish a pioneering service," he said.
Mr Anderson noted that the FRN, which represents over 300 reuse charities and social enterprises nationwide, had encountered difficulties working with the public sector in certain areas, but said that the Big Society concept, with its focus on civil society, could help to address this. "We're finding barriers working with the public sector but if they're looking to save money, and the government wants to look at civil society providing more services, they have to take into account the social and economic value of our work," he said.
However, in the Business Plan, the FRN notes that while there are growth opportunities for the reuse sector within the Big Society agenda - such as by taking on bulky waste collections or running volunteering programmes - it needs to be proactive. "The sector will need to engage to survive and grow, and to help design and build a bigger civil society," it outlines in the Plan, while noting that it needs government support to provide social equality and to distribute resources fairly.
Market drivers
As well as the Big Society, the Business Plan raises the potential for increased working with the commercial sector, in light of businesses' corporate social responsibility, or CSR, agendas. "Social, economic and environment value can be found through manufacturing and retailing of goods by supporting product reuse endeavours and introducing product stewardship," the Plan explains. And, it also highlights the influence of environmental regulations, noting in particular the emphasis on reuse in the revised EU Waste Framework Directive, its drive for a network of 'accredited' reusers, and the CO2 savings from reusing products in comparison to other forms of waste management.
Challenge
Mr Anderson explained that the challenge now facing the FRN was to represents its members in playing their part in responding to, and benefiting from, those market drivers. "We are a network about bringing people and organisations together," he said. "To represent our membership better we have learnt that we need a strong organisation, to be structured and strong, so the Business Plan is about building that function so we can respond to various opportunities."
In light of this, FRN is aiming to work more closely with both the public and the commercial sectors. In terms of the public sector this involves increasing members' access to council 'waste' and providing support in areas such as procurement and contract commissioning. And, in relation to the commercial sector, it aims to place a particular focus on building the UK network of Approved Reuse Centres. At the moment, 50 of the FRN members run these centres, which have to undergo an audit process before receiving their ARC certification and registration.
The UK Furniture Reuse Network (formerly the Furniture Recycling Network) is the national body which supports, assists and develops charitable and social enterprise reuse organisations across the UK, represents 300 reuse charities, and has recently published its business plan for 2011-14.
[source FRN press release
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 FRENCH FIREPLACES AT THE POTOMACK COMPANY AUCTION SALE
The Potomack Company of Alexandria held a mammoth 1,480 lot auction sale last weekend including a fair number of architectural and decorative antique lots. A striking group of thirty French limestone and marble chimneypieces, of which some were original antique, and some recarved and reproduction, seemed to have been ambitiously consigned by the same person or business.
Of those which sold, a 9ft tall 5ft wide, carved empanelled limestone late 18th century chimneypiece from the Vendee region sold at a low estimate $6,000 plus commissions. A possibly 17th century French rustic corbel monumental fire surround from Indre et Loire region, 6ft 6ins high by 7ft wide, carved in light relief with entwined dragons, sold for a low estimate $7,000. A 10ft long by 7ft 6ins baker's rack and shelves in nickel-plated cast brass by Dubois Lyons fetched a low estimate $1,500. A lot of four American gothic steel framed window casements, some with original glass panes, each 6ft high by 3ft 6ins wide, sold for $1,000.
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 GAZE BYGONES - KINGFISHER TRAP SNARES £340
Among the results of Gaze's rural and domestic bygones sale last Saturday, a kingfisher pole trap with chain and spike sold for £340. Kingfishers used to feed at fish hatcheries and, prior to 1904 when these traps were outlawed, tiny gin traps baited with a small fish, were attached to poles used as kingfisher perches. Kingfishers, with their bright orange and electirc blue plumage, were also popular in Victorian ornithological stuffed bird collections. Pole traps were normally used to catch larger birds of prey as well as owls. A variation on the round bait plate is the ring for egg-baited eagle traps.
A glass minnow trap sold for £110. Other notable prices were a pair of iron scaffold board trestles at £140, Horlicks enamel sign £460, Fraser removals enamel sign £200. The top lot and enamel sign at £620 was one of 18ins by 10ins for Bullards Beers of Norwich which flourished from 1837-1970. It was taken over by Watneys and Sir Alfred Munnings original artwork of 1909, for the famous Bullard's posters and wall-plaques of which this lot was one, was re-styled in cartoon form by Watneys.
Next Gaze sale is for Architectural Salvage & Statuary on Saturday 26 February 2011.
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 CAIRO'S RECYCLING ZABBALEENS ADAPT TO SURVIVE
Cairo's 70,000 traditional rubbish collectors, or Zabbaleen - members of the 6m strong Christian Coptic minority - were something of a paragon which had been working for sixty years. They did an excellent job of processing waste, trucking refuse for small payments or free of charge from the 20m population of the city's tenements to the half-dozen settlements that ringed the city, carefully sifting out and selling recyclable glass, paper and plastic, and putrescibles which were fed to 250,000 pigs, which were eventually harvested as bacon. Although pork is forbidden to the country's 80m Muslim majority.
In 2009, in response to the threat of swine flu, Egypt's government decreed that the pigs, perhaps 250,000 of them, must go, which resulted in street protests by the Zabbareens, eventually quelled when backed by riot police and promising compensation. The pigs were systematically hauled off for slaughter, a process that took several months.
With no cases of swine flu reported in Egypt, officials from both the UN and the World Health Organisation condemned Egypt's porcicide as a drastic overreaction. Some disgruntled Copts, who have long complained of discrimination said the move unfairly targeted them. Others, noting that Egypt's minister of health consulted Coptic clergy before announcing the cull, saw it as a plot by wealthy businessmen to uproot the Zabbaleen and seize their valuable land on the edge of the city. Still more rumours explain the government's swinophobia as a ploy to distract attention from other failings, such as not paying a promised salary bonus.
Most Egyptians seemed relieved. While Muslims shun pigs as ritually unclean, many Copts also fear them as disease-carriers, with panic over swine flu heightened as Egypt had suffered at least 26 deaths from avian flu since 2006, the most in any country outside Asia. Besides, the crowded pig pens, surrounded by mounds of self-combusting biodegradable slime and hemmed in by dense human settlement, were a stinky eyesore. But the question no one seemed to ask was, if pigs were no longer there to munch away at them, where would Cairo's giant piles of leftovers go? They tried goats which did not seem to like the rotting food much, and some entreprising young Zabbareens have built small methane digestors used to produce gas for cooking and electricity generation.
In 2005, Wael Salah Fahmi, a professor of city design at Helwan University in Cairo wrote, 'The Zabbaleen have created what is probably one of the world's best, most efficient resource recovery and waste recycling systems. Their method is efficient - it puts everything to a good use.' However, there are also problems with it. One problem is that the Zabbaleen have not been able to keep up with Cairo's growth. Beginning in the 1970s, Cairo started growing very fast. Today it is the largest city in the Middle East and Africa. Because Cairo grew so fast, the Zabbaleen were not able to meet all the city's garbage collection needs. Instead, the government decided to pay private European companies to manage waste in parts of the city. These companies now manage one third of Cairo's waste. However, many people do not like the new companies. The companies cost more than the Zabbaleen and they recycle less.
However, the biggest problem with the Zabbaleen method is the living conditions that it produces. While the Zabbaleen do support themselves, they are still very poor. They also suffer from many diseases caused by working and living with garbage. And since the families usually work together, children do not always attend school. In the 1970s, Sister Emmanuelle, a French nun, visited the Zabbaleen communities of Cairo. She recognized a need to improve the living conditions of the Zabbaleen. She also recognized the importance of what the Zabbaleen did for the people of Cairo and the environment. For twenty years, Sister Emmanuelle lived among the Zabbaleen. During that time, she started an organization called the Association for the Protection of the Environment or APE which helps the Zabbaleen improve their lives by doing what they do best - recycling. APE works with other investment groups too. Together, they have started recycling schools in the Zabbaleen communities. These schools teach the Zabbaleen even more methods of recycling. They teach the Zabbaleen to use machines which break down plastic. They provide training in how to weave material scraps found in the garbage. From these scraps the students can make rugs and blankets to sell. The school also teaches students how to recycle paper to make cards and other paper goods. These goods can also be sold. The schools also teach basic reading skills, health education, arts and even computer training. Students, like Magdi, use computers to record how many bottles they recycle. These students also learn many business skills that help them be more productive.
With the help of APE, the Zabbaleen are improving their lives. They are also beginning to teach their good recycling methods to students in other countries. And, cities like Manila and Bombay are now using the Zabbaleen method of waste management. Today, cities are growing faster than ever. This means that waste in cities is also produced faster. However, modern methods of waste management may not be the best answer to the growing waste. Instead, cities all over the world can learn from the Zabbaleen's method. It is a method which makes money, manages waste and still cares for the world's environment.
In a double whammy, the Egyptian Government opened its garbage industry to foreign competition. Italian and Spanish companies have taken over the roots once controlled by the Zabaleen, depriving them of the household fees they receive to collect the waste. This forced the Zabaleen to work either as labourers on a smaller wage or scavenge for garbage before the foreign trucks got to it. The key difference with the multinational contractors is that instead of large-scale recycling, most of their rubbish is landfilled at a tip north of the city.
The Zabaleen would have turned 80 per cent of this into a valued commodity - paper, plastic or glass - but the foreign companies only have to recycle about 20 per cent and the rest goes into landfill. The Zabaleen say the loss of income from garbage collection has had a big impact on their lives. Many families can no longer send their kids to school and doctors report a drop in nutrition and health standards.
One school, though, has found a solution. It's a special recycling school partly funded by aid. The school children collect empty bottles for shampoos like Pert and Pantene. The shampoo company Proctor and Gamble then pays the school $30,000 to shred the bottles. It's meant to curb a rampant trade in fake shampoo. The shredded bottles are then sold to pay the teacher's wages. It's a form of child labour that other shampoo companies like Unilever and Johnsons have shunned but the Zabaleen believe there's no other way. Without this work, these children could no longer go to school. This is the only way they can afford an education. Even the school lessons revolve around waste. Some of the first words these kids learn are the names of shampoos and they're hoping the maths learnt today will help them bid for the garbage contracts when they expire in seven years.
Until then, the Zabaleen will continue to eke out a living from recycling whatever waste they can still get their hands on.
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 HENRY VIII MURAL UNCOVERED IN MILVERTON HOME
Angie and Rhodri Powell have discovered a 20ft high wall painting of what is believed to be King Herny VIII after they removed some panelling from a wall in their Milverton home which was used as a summer palace for Thomas Cranmer, Archdeacon of Taunton, who went on to became Archbishop of Canterbury in 1533, and who helped the king break from the Catholic church. He recanted his protestant faith but was burnt at the stake anyway when England swung back to Catholicism during the reign of Queen Mary I. He famously thrust his right hand into the flames first for having signed the recantation.
The painting is by an unknown artist and is dated to c1530. Ms Powell, a children's author, told the BBC, "When we saw the eyes appear out of the plaster it was a real moment. It is a presence and you do feel there's just something there behind you looking over your shoulder. When people come in, he grabs the attention.'
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 SPANISH CATHEDRAL OF SALVAGE BUILT BY ELDERLY MAN
An 85 year old man has spent fifty years building an incredible cathedral from reclaimed materials. Justo Gallego started building the structure on his own land after he left an order of monks due to illness.
The building is loosely based on St Peter's of the Vatican City, with general church, cathedral and castle motifs. With towers reaching 131ft, all kinds of salvaged materials have been used including rejected bricks and tiles from a local factory, oil drums, and even plastic food tubs.
Gallego has no formal drawings or plans, and is currently trying to acquire the permits and licenses the building needs in order to open to the public.
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 TAKE THE STRESS OUT OF BITUMEN REMOVAL
Parquet Bitumen Removal Ltd are a company based in Manchester that remove bitumen from parquet and tongue and groove flooring. The business was started up in October of last year and is based at the same premises as Reclaim and Recycle Ltd. The website shows before and after photographs of parquet flooring with different grades of bitumen.
Bitumen Removal say that for the majority of wood block flooring they will be able to remove almost all of the bitumen because it is dry and brittle. In cases where bitumen is still wet and tacky, they will remove as much as possible leaving a smooth level surface.
To contact Bitumen Removal Ltd, Irlam, Manchester telephone 0845 309 6359.
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 GAZE BYGONES SALE THIS SATURDAY
Pop down to Diss Auction rooms and stock up on all your gardening gear in readiness for spring. As well as everything you might need to maintain your garden, there will be for sale enamel signs, farming, railway, kitchen and fishing items, and other bygones.
Location: Saleroom 1 and Sale Meadow, TW Gaze LLP, Roydon Road, Diss, Norfolk, IP22 4LN
Date: 29 January 2011
Start Time: 10:00
Bidding Deadline: 29 January 2011 09:30
Contact: Carl Willows & Rob Kinsella on 01379 650 306
Total Lots: 599
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 RINGO'S HOUSE NOT LISTED
The house Beatle's drummer Ringo Starr was born in will not be granted listed status by English Heritage. The Victorian terraced house is in Madryn Street in Liverpool, one of hundreds of houses that will be demolished this year.
Campaigner, Phil Coppell, said the house is of huge cultural significance and that English Heritage 'do not understand the reality of what is important to the ordinary people of Liverpool and to Beatles fans all over the world.'
English Heritage have dismissed the application on the basis that the 'house has no associations with the success of The Beatles as a group, was only lived in by Ringo Starr for four years after his birth and is not architecturally or historically significant enough to match listing criteria.'
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