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Jim Melvin: Clapped in the clink
The Master of The Worshipful Company of Environmental Cleaners (WCEC), Jim Melvin, just about scraped through his ‘brutal’ incarceration for charity at the annual fundraising event, ‘Jailed and Bailed’.
This is a fundraising event organised by various Livery Companies in London, where Livery Masters are ‘arrested’ and ‘jailed’ for a short period of time, before being ‘bailed out’ by their colleagues and friends.
The bail money raised is donated to a charity of choice, which this year is the British Red Cross. The funds raised collectively by all the participating Livery Masters, over £40,000, will be of vital importance to the British Red Cross and their work around the world, especially given recent disasters in Libya and Morocco where their support is ongoing.
The event is usually accompanied by a humorous reprimand from a Sheriff or Judge. Jim was released following the generosity of WCEC members and friends who collectively paid his bail of over £3,400.
City of London Sheriff, Andrew Marsden, raked about 20 Livery Masters over the coals before they were marched off to the Tower of London, accompanied by a Beefeater and fed a spartan lunch; not exactly dried bread and gruel, but they used their imaginations.
The WCEC is delighted to add that Jim’s bail constituted the largest contribution of all the Masters involved in the event, and thankful that his efforts and his influence raised such an impressive sum, for such a good cause.
Delphis Eco publishes recycling-themed
survey findings As Recycle Week celebrates its 20th anniversary, multi- award-winning UK manufacturer and No. 1 eco-cleaning company, Delphis Eco has published some key findings from its latest survey.
The findings capture some of the focus of this year’s theme, ‘missed capture’, the items that can be recycled but are commonly missed in the home. One of these key missed items for recycling are cosmetics, where nearly 40% of people said they don’t think to recycle bottles or may occasionally do.
Food waste is another ‘missed capture’. It’s estimated that 70% of wasted food in the UK is wasted by families in their own homes. This is 4.5m tonnes of food being thrown away every year that could have been eaten. The Delphis survey also found that nearly half the population don’t have a home compost bin.
Another key aspect of this year’s Recycle Week theme is a focus on local authorities to share the central message – to galvanise the public into recycling more of the right things,
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Giving back is at the core of WCEC, and it does so through its Charitable Trust. The majority of members contribute to the Trust by way of a personal donation, and it allocates approximately 4% of its capital annually to support various worthy causes. These range widely, from promoting education through scholarships and grants, community projects, offender rehabilitation support and more.
The most recent initiative starting this year is a goal to help two people transition from life on the streets to a path of stability and personal growth. If you would like to know more about the WCEC’s charitable giving and work, please click here.
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more often. However, with different systems in play across regional authorities, 73% of responders said they strongly agree that all local authorities should be consistent in their recycling approach to make recycling more efficient and less confusing as a national standard.
When asked how confident people are that their local authority is correctly sorting their household recycling rather than sending it to landfill, nearly half of those asked were not confident that recycled waste was being processed effectively.
Delphis Eco Founder and Managing Director, Mark Jankovich, said: “WRAP’s Recycle Week is always a great opportunity to focus on how we can reduce, reuse and
recycle more.
“From our survey findings it’s clear that we still have a way to go. Key items not being recycled such as cosmetics and toiletries alongside food waste is a key area for improvement across homes and local authorities. We can – and should – do more and Recycle Week is a good time for us all to stop and think about what we can do more off when it comes to recycling.”
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