Diverted From Landfill

 

If you picked up this week’s Orcadian, you might have seen the article about Employability Orkney - Restart Orkney. In the article it tells you a bit about how much we divert from incineration and landfill. So, we thought we would pop up a peedie post about it as well.

 

Part of our ethos is reuse, repair, recycle we want to encourage folk to donate it instead of dump it.

 

We keep track of how much we divert from incineration and landfill every month and we think this is something that we need to share as this is pretty impressive.

 

 

From April 2021 to March 2022, we diverted approximately 115 tonnes of items that would have otherwise ended up heading to the dump.

 

So far from April 2022 to the end of June 2022 (yes this is just in 3 months) we have diverted approximately 23 tonnes of furniture, household items and electricals from going to landfill. This includes over 30 sofas, 7 cookers, 128 dining chairs, 76 lamps, 21 vacuums and even 2 baths and a toilet.

 

With this we are helping to protect our beautiful local environment as well as provide much needed low-cost household items to those who need it.

 

Thank you for continuing to support our charity so we can carry on supporting individuals in to mainstream employment as well as helping protect our environment.

 

If you have items you would like to donate, please give us a ring on 879 777, PM us on social media or email reception@employabilityorkney.co.uk