A Big Thank you to Tesco and Pret A Manger
Through 2017 Dorset Reclaim built growing relationships with both Tesco and Pret A Manger. Both organisations have a goal to reduce food waste and this is clearly aligned with our own vision to increase reuse and recycling across our communities. We now collect unsold fresh food including sandwiches, salads, bread and other groceries from sites across Dorset on a daily basis. At Reclaim we are all about volunteers. With our...
Tributes paid to motorcyclist Paul Tovey who died in Poole crash
6 September 2017 / Alex Winter TRIBUTES have been paid to a “dearly loved” motorcyclist who died in a Poole crash last week. Paul Tovey, who was 35, was killed when his orange Kawasaki motorbike collided with a white Audi A1 in Parkstone Road on the night of Tuesday, August 29. He had been out with friends at the time of the collision. Emergency services were called to a stretch of the road near the junction with Birds Hill Road at...
Dorset Waste Partnership Extends Reclaim Contract
Dorset Reclaim has been providing the bulky waste collection service for the Dorset Waste Partnership for the last two years, collecting items that residents find too big for their waste bin or difficult to dispose of. The service has been kept incredibly busy by the residents of Dorset with the charity collecting over 754,000 tonnes of unwanted items in the last two years in nearly 7,500 collections – the good news is that 45% has...