Publications

Proposed Quality of Life Partnership
The Local Area Agreement brings together statutory, voluntary and commercial organisations to achieve strategic goals. Achieving these goals results in reward income from central government. These two papers are the notes and accompanying papers from a Stakehold event held on 10th June to discuss membership and objectives ot the Quality of Life group.

DEFRA Third Sector Consultation Response
The ECORRN response to DEFRA's 2008 consultation on the role of the Third Sector in reaching environmental targets. View...

Junk Swaps an outstanding success!
Chelmsford Environment Partnership (CEP) have published the report for their 'Win with Waste' project, part-funded by a Seedcorn grant from ECORRN. The project aimed to monitor recycling levels in Chelmsford and then change the behaviour of 1 in 3 of the non-participating households. For details on how they achieved (and exceeded!) this target visit www.chelmsfordenvironment.com or contact Helena Byles on 01245 265787.

WasteWISE 2004 Materials Reycling Reports

Here are a selection of reports looking into selected waste materials and how they can be recycled with particular reference to Social Enterprise. All documents are in PDF format. To view them you will need to have Adobe Reader, which is freely available from the Adobe website.

WEEE

These reports have been produced by WasteWISE.

Bulky Waste Collections
A report by the London Community Recycling Network (CRN) on 'Maximising Diversion from Bulky Waste Collections through the Engagement of the Community Sector in Essex'. Produced on behalf of Defra WIP Local Authority Support Unit.

You can download the Executive Summary from here in Word Document format by clicking here. Or right click the previous link and choose 'Save As' if you want to keep a copy.

WEEE Reuse Centres, March 2006
A Feasibility Study into the Development of Central or Distributed Appliance Reuse Centres (ARCs) for Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE) in Essex. A 63 page PDF report by Marcelle Psaila a Consultant for WasteWISE. View...

Calculating Tonnages for Bulky Waste
LondonCRN have redeveloped the standard measurements for calculating tonnages from bulky waste. (Aug 2005 FRN weights from ECORRN/WasteWISE base, earlier original by Beni Benstead). It is now easy and even more accurate to estimate your tonnages. Simply input the number of each item you 'reuse' and it will calculate the total tonnes for you! If you have Excel, then download the tonnage calculator here.

Analysis of Community Re-use & Recycling in Essex, Southend and Thurrock
ECORRN (Essex Community Re-use and Recycling Network) embarked upon a project which aimed to quantify the level of re-use and recycling by community organisations/projects within Essex. A survey was sent out to the community organisations to investigate what types of material are being re-used and recycled and this report describes the findings.

Details were up to date April 2004. For more accurate details, please use the information in the directory and members page.

The report is available in 4 formats and in filesizes to suit the speed of your Internet connection.

PC Users: To save a file, right click on the icon and choose "Save Target As"
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Format	Broadband (large)	Dial-up (small)
MS Word
PDF
PowerPoint
PowerPointShow

Thanks to the Big Lottery SEED Fund (the Social, Economic and Environment Development programme) for funding the production of this survey and directory, and giving ECORRN the base to grow, and promote community reuse/recycling in Essex.

Analysis of bulky waste collections and bulky CA waste residue
In Essex & Thurrock. - Base data for Identifying opportunities for diversion and reuse
(Unpublished draft for comment/improvement)

ECORRN have completed this first draft of a project with the aim of quantifying and assessing the current practice, in household bulky waste collections by districts and unitaries in Essex and analyses diversion opportunities. It is based on responses from 9 districts, Essex County Council and unitary Thurrock Borough Council.

Comments on this report are very welcome. This report is now being developed on and expanded by LCRN (London Community Recycling Network)in Partnership with ECORRN to link the findings in this report to detailed analysis of the community furniture reuse projects in Essex, Southend and Thurrock.

Details were up to date – July 2005.

This file is over 6Mb and will therefore take a long time to download. Click here for the document or right click and choose "Save Target As".

Essex Community Reuse and Recycling Network (ECORRN) – June 2005 Summary

Links
(1) the presentation Lewis Herbert gave to the FRN Annual conference – in November 2004
www.frn.org.uk/pdfs/lewis.pdf

(2) One Lewis Herbert gave in Sydney, Brisbane and Melbourne – in November 2003
www.isf.uts.edu.au/whatsnew/LewisHerbert.pdf

(3) Go East website

(4) Improving Bulky Waste Diversion in District Authorities
www.m-e-l.co.uk

(5) Bulky Waste Summary Report
www.m-e-l.co.uk

(6) CRN Conference, Seminar 6 Thursday 20 May, 2004
www.crn.org.uk

(7) Review of National Waste Policy, Joint Waste Strategy Principles, and Council Waste Policy - 19th October 2000
www2.cambridgeshire.gov.uk

(8) Planning Skills Development Workshops
October 2004 - April 2005
Workshop information, Speaker Biopics, Presentation