Children's Hospice South West Mobile Phone Amnesty

Children's Hospice South West and Greensource Solutions launch our mobile phone amnesty on 1st December 2011.

This will run until 31st January 2012 and we are aiming to receive 1000 mobile phones - that's 1000 messages of support for the families who receive respite care, emergency support and end of life care at Little Bridge House, Charlton Farm and Little Harbour over Christmas and the New Year.

Participating is easy! Simply fill in the contact form on the website and you'll receive a freepost envelope to return any handsets you have.

Any mobile phone, regardless of age or condition can be accepted and will be reused or at worst recycled.

We hope that supporters of the Hospice and recyclers alike will think of us at Christmas time if they get a brand new handset from santa!

Above and Beyond is our newest charity partner!

We are proud to announce our new charity partner, Above and Beyond.

This charity is the fundraising arm for all nine of Bristols central hospitals - which is close to all of our hearts here at Greensource.
They invest in projects that provide gold-standard care, and make a real difference to patients in Bristol.
Each year Above & Beyond provides approx £3 million to the hospitals - a fantastic level of support for our marvellous NHS.

Welcome on board and we look forward to collecting cartridges and mobile phones from their supporters!

Greensource sponsors a gorilla for Barton Hill Primary School!

Greensource Solutions has sponsored a gorilla statue for Barton Hill Primary School - local to us in Bristol.

This is part of an education and fundraising scheme that Bristol Zoo Gardens have devised as one of the celebrations for its 175th anniversary. The idea is similar in principal to other animal statues seen around the UK (pigs, lions and donkeys all spring to mind). The statues are decorated by artists and displayed to raise awareness and to fund raise.

We are really pleased to be supporting Barton Hill Primary. They are one of the closest schools to Greensource Towers and we saw a selection of designs the kids had submitted from their work in the art group. We reckon the finished Gorilla will look amazing!
It, with all the other school gorillas will be displayed in a prominent location in the Bristol community for 10 weeks during the summer of 2011.

We'll post pictures when the gorilla has been painted.

Greensource Solutions has new partners!

Greensource Solutions is proud to announce not one, or two, but THREE new partners it will fund raise for!

We always like forming new relationships and these three all have meaning for us:



Bristol Zoo Gardens is so much more than a visitor attraction; we’re also a leading conservation and education charity.

We are involved in a growing number of field conservation projects, working directly to safeguard threatened plants, animals and habitats. Projects range from breeding programmes in the Zoo to conserving species in the wild such as the native White Clawed crayfish, to the lemurs of Madagascar and orphaned gorillas in Cameroon. Gorillas are a critically endangered species and the gorilla sanctuary we support in Cameroon provides a safe haven for young gorillas that have been orphaned by the bushmeat trade. It costs over £100 to provide one month’s supply of leaves to a gorilla at our primate rescue centre in Cameroon.

One of our successful conservation breeding programmes has been the recent birth of twin asiatic lion cubs to first time mum Shiva and dad Kamal. Asiatic lions are a critically endangered species and to protect them from extinction Bristol Zoo is participating in an
internationally co-ordinated breeding programme. It costs over £700 per month to enable us to participate in these breeding programmes.

For further details of how you can support of work please visit our website www.bristolzoo.org.uk
Registered charity number: 1104986

Bristol Zoo Gardens is an institution to us. Many Greensource staff are members of the Zoo and this new partnership coincides with the Zoos 175 anniversary. Being local means a lot to us, as does the philosophy the Zoo maintains in its care of the animals, support of projects overseas and its education programmes.


Respect for Animals campaigns against the cruel and unnecessary international fur trade, believing fur farming and trapping to be morally indefensible.
Every year 75 million animals are killed solely for their fur, a product that no one needs. Animals are farmed in factory conditions or trapped and brutally killed in the wild.
Respect for Animals undertakes education, research and lobbying for the benefit of animals, campaigning against the fur trade for many years. Our research and educational programmes have lead to a drastic decline in fur sales in the UK but fur wearing remains as popular as ever elsewhere in the world.
Find out more at www.respectforanimals.co.uk

This organisations work and campaigning resonates with us.


The Ulster Architectural Heritage Society has been working across Northern Ireland since 1967 promoting the appreciation and enjoyment of good architecture of all periods and encouraging the conservation, restoration and re-use of Ulster's built heritage. As an environmental charity we are very much concerned with sustainability and recycling.

With your support we can continue to:
* Provide information, advice & training for individuals & groups undertaking restoration projects.
* Campaign to protect buildings at risk and bring them back into use.
* Influence planning policy in favour of architectural heritage & good design.
* Increase the enjoyment of our built heritage through an annual programme of events.
* Increase the appreciation, awareness & recording of our built heritage through publications.

To find out more about our work and how you can help make a difference to the protection of the architectural heritage of Ulster

visit www.uahs.org.uk

The Ulster Architectural Heritage Society is a charity recognised by HM Revenue & Customs No. XN 48188 and a Company Limited by Guarantee No. NI35582

We are so pleased to have another partner whose work concerns Northern Ireland.

We look forward to working with Bristol Zoo Gardens, Respect for Animals and Ulster Architectural Heritage Society in 2011 and beyond and hope our relationship with each of them is long lasting and fruitful!

Have HP curbed their Planet Partners cartridge returns scheme?

I recently had an email from a company in Bristol I'd previously contacted to promote our charity recycling scheme.
They had declined our services, because they were using HP's freepost returns scheme which suited their use. However a month later they told me "it would appear that H P are no longer accepting individual cartridges...we only found out as we print labels on line and it stated no longer available."

This could be great news for the printer cartridge recycling industry!

Despite fierce competition, Hewlett Packard still dominate the printer market and the cartridge remanufacturing market make more compatible HP cartridges than any other brand.

I wonder if margins are squeezing HP now? Their scheme diverted cartridges from landfill, but I would wager the scheme was purely in place to restrict the number of empty cartridges available to remanufacturing companies like us - HP appear to have no other financial benefit from this relationship.

I'll wait and see if more enquiries come to us from Hewlett Packard customers (fingers crossed!)