Annual Reuse Conference and Awards Ceremony
January 20, 2009 by Gareth Jones
| February 10, 2009 | ||
| 9:45 am | to | 3:00 pm |
Like a dating agency, Eastex matches up potential partners, linking donors with recipients to allow organisations to pass on excess materials. This helps to reduce waste disposal costs and lower the cost of buying in raw materials.
This Valentines’ season Eastex have teamed up with Envirowise and will be holding a reuse conference on February 10th 2009. Please see the attached flyer for the full agenda. The conference is entirely FREE to attend and includes the following talks and workshops
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Eastex - Find your perfect (reuse) partner workshop
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IP21 - design for the environment - Alan Eklid
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GYWoodstock - creating enterprise from waste
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HMP Blundeston - How Reuse through Eastex has helped us
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Bioregional - Building Materials Reuse Centres -Lewis Herbert
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Awards Ceremony - highlighting the Eastex high-achievers of 2008
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Exhibitions - Wide variety of exhibitors offering expertise and advice in the environmental field
The booking line is now open! places are limited to a first come first served basis. To book a place please register at
http://www.envirowise.gov.uk/eastex
or email:
VENUE: The Forest Centre - Marston Moretaine, Bedford. MK43 0PR
DATE AND TIME: 10th February 2009 - 9.45 am until 3pm
PLEASE NOTE: Booking is essential
Award Nominations…
Are you one of our star Eastex users? We are accepting nominations for the best reuse performers of 2008. The Awards will be presented at the conference for the following categories:
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Eastex Community Award 2008
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Most Innovative Exchange 2008
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Most Tonnes Exchanged 2008
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Most Exchanges 2008
Environmental Population Networking Event
January 28, 2009 by Gareth Jones
| February 17, 2009 | ||
| 4:00 pm | to | 6:00 pm |
Business and Technology Centre, Bessemer Drive, Stevenage, SG1 2DX
Learn how to become greener and make new business contacts!
o Are you struggling to understand the issues associated with going green?
o Would you like to learn a little more?
… then come along to our environmental networking event and meet other like minded business professionals
Green Business Networking Event
Tuesday 17th February 2009 4pm-6pm
Business and Technology Centre, Bessemer Drive, Stevenage,
Hertfordshire, SG1 2DX
Come and listen to two fabulous speakers and meet other business professionals at one of our highly successful networking events:
- o Susie Bewell of Raymond James Investment Services will discuss “Investing in a Volatile World”.
- o Grahame Smith of Mystery Events will be presenting “Eco Warriors - Death or Quest?”
There will be plenty of time to network with other businesses so don’t forget your business cards.
Only £5 for members of Environmental Population, £10 for non-members.
For further information on this event, or to find out about becoming a member of Environmental Population, please telephone 01438 317722 or e-mail admin@environmental-population.com.
