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1. Give Your Unwanted / Unworn Clothes To Charity - 17 Aug 2006

   If you have woolly jumpers or cotton shirts which are a bit too far gone for the charity shops – you could recycle them in a different way. See below:

   From: info Date: August 11, 2006 10:43:54 BST Subject: any old jumpers?

   Dear Friends,

   CAN YOU HELP??? I am experiencing problems with my supplies of textile waste.

   So thought I’d ask you all – before you send your old jumpers off to the charity shop or textile bank or worse the ordinary bin & therefore landfill!! would you consider sending them to me at the address below. Knitwear poses a specific problem in landfill as it creates large amounts of methane as it decomposes, which contributes to the huge problem of greenhouse gases.

   I am in the early stages of my career as an eco-warrior creating beautiful textile interior pieces from reclaimed wool and cotton shirting but have a temporary supply problem. It seemed obvious to ask everyone I know to consider sending their old woolens to me. They can be damaged/holey as I cut up and remake anyway – but must be 100% wool. I would also like your old cotton shirting – again it has to be 100% cotton, but stripes, spots, checks are all fine.

   To save your postage or refund you, I can either send pre-paid packets for you to fill and post back or I can send you the value of your postage costs in stamps or a cheque.

   As well as your postage re-funded, you will receive a teeny handmade Maxine Sutton gift as a thank you, (as well as a special place in my heart of course)

   Please ask around your friends too and feel free to forward my request to anyone you can think of who might be receptive.

   FOOD FOR THOUGHT – DID YOU KNOW??

   “If everyone in the UK bought one reclaimed woolen garment each year, it would save 371 million gallons of water (the average UK reservoir holds about 300 million gallons) and 480 tonnes of chemical dyestuffs” (Evergreen)

   “It is estimated that 400,000 tonnes of textiles are landfilled every year… At least 50% of the textiles going to landfill are recyclable.” (www.wasteonline.org.uk)

   LOVE TO ALL Maxine

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   Maxine Sutton www.maxinesutton.com E: info@maxinesutton.com T: 07958 604688

2. Switch To Energy Saving Lightbulbs - 11 Oct 2006

   Saturday 4th November is “Come Off It” day:

   “On Saturday 4 November we invite you to flick the switch and commence generation of one of the world’s largest and most overlooked power sources – not Megawatts but Negawatts! Negawatts are created by harnessing people power or, more specifically, people’s power of restraint.

   If every house saves just a few Watts, that’s one less new power station that we need to build. And if every house saves 100W through simple actions like switching off a light that’s not really needed, or being careful not to overfill the kettle, we’d save not one power station but several.”

   See www.comeoffit.org