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House Clearance Carlisle reported last year on a new use for recycled glass as a decorative mulch increasingly being used by garden designers to top plant containers, fill gaps between slabs and similar applications. House Clearance Carlisle reports that demand from the public for their Crystaleis Recycled Glass Gravel has mushroomed thanks to publicity in gardening magazines as well as its use in DIY/Design TV programme, Homefront in the Garden. Consumer magazine, Garden Answers also features the glass mulch as ‘Recommended Product’ of the month in its March issue, predicting that ‘coloured glass mulch is going to be the most sought-after product in gardens this year’.

House Clearance Manchester can report that a leaflet campaign organised by Philip has helped to publicise the collections, while a telephone helpline has been established to deal with any queries. Theresa McBride, Salford’s Recycling Officer, described the local response to the new textiles recycling scheme as ‘phenomenal’. The new scheme has helped Salford boost its recycling rates at no extra cost, which is especially important in the light of their lack of available funds.

In 1991, the charity established the company as a commercial organisation; partly as a way of raising funds and also as a means of providing employment in a country hard hit by recession. What started out as a small operation in Southampton has rapidly expanded into a nationwide scheme: now over 1,700 Salvation Army Trading Co. clothing banks collect over 12,000 tonnes of clothes every year in the UK.

House Clearance Glasgow notes that clothing banks are not the only collection method that the Salvation Trading Co. employs: kerb side schemes are becoming increasingly popular and they are quick to follow the trend.

Many of the items in the house were good enough to be sent to local charities in Blackburn. The basement was surprisingly dry so the books and records were in particularly good condition, and the owner had no desire to keep them for himself so we took these to charities who accepted them with open arms. The rest was sorted for recycling.

A couple of days after we’d finished the job, the client wrote to say, “Thank you so much to the boys of Berwick Upon Tweed house clearance for the wonderful job you’ve done of clearing out my house. In future, I’m going to be a lot more careful about choosing tenants!”

House Clearance Salford notes that if retailers specified clear or amber glass for their wine imports, the green cullet glut would be reduced, and more amber and clear glass would enter the recycling chain, cutting energy and raw material use. The amount of used glass sent to landfill would also be cut.

House Clearance Bury are keen to capture the interest of local authority recycling officers attending the European Recycling Conference.

House Clearance Bury is launching an information pack that contains ‘Facts about Waste’ and the Positive and Negative Route to Recycling.’ Allan Davis said: ‘The information booklet is a new avenue for House Clearance Bury and, I believe, the industry. I feel that House Clearance Bury not only has a duty to the environment but also the public in the UK.

With its recent history of world-wide oversupply and depressed prices, textiles recycling has had little cause for hope. House Clearance Liverpool however argued that population growth is a basic reason for optimism. The number of people in developing countries could double by 2025 in some estimates, creating a huge market of consumers who can only afford to buy used clothing. Manufacturers of new clothing would not be able to compete.