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Bigger plan for forthcoming Materials Recycling Facility

Currently Coventry City Council sends all recyclable materials - glass, plastic, metal and paper – to commercial firms in the city. In 2018/19 it cost the Council over £1.6m. The Council first discussed plans for the Materials Recycling Facility (MRF) over two years ago, in partnership with six other local authorities in the region. Approval of the planning application was …

The Briefcase of Mineral Applications

The Briefcase project is a new educational tool produced by FabLab Coventry that uses hands-on learning strategies to teach students about the important role of mineral raw materials in everyday life and how our choices concerning these materials can shape the world. Through innovative learning experiences, students engage directly with the raw materials they are learning about, improving retention of …

Recycling Coventry Bicycles

Coventry Cycling Centre The centre restores bikes from recycling projects and donations so they can be sold at affordable prices in the community to promote cycling. You can also use the bike workshop for do it yourself repairs if you make an appointment. Check the Facebook page for latest opening times. Telephone: 07459507918 Address: 311 Stoney Stanton Road, CV6 5DS …

Time Union

Time Union is a time bank run by Coventry City Council which aims to help people use their time to build their sense of self through relating to others, connect to Coventry as a community, and enable socially positive changes to come from individual acts of sharing. A time bank is a system of mutual exchange. Members share their time, …

Reclaiming the Coventry Canal

This group aims to create ownership of the canal and its surroundings among the local communities, to celebrate the Coventry Canal from a multicultural perspective and to raise awareness of the environmental value of the waterway. https://www.facebook.com/reclaimingcoventrycanal/

The Pod

The Pod provides a community space that programs creative and artistic events and is part of Coventry City Council. The Pod at 31 Far Gosford Street is the dynamic work base to a team of Mental Health Development Workers/Brokers, The Pod Cafe, Food Union and Time Union + a Studio Space and Zine Library. Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/thepodcoventry/ Coventry City Council …

Food Union

Food Union was founded in 2014 and is one of The Pod’s citywide social activism programs that exists to create conversation and action around food. In Coventry alone 60,000 people live below the bread-line, while in the UK we throw away 7 million tonnes of food every year. Something has to change. Food Union is here to search for solutions …

FabLab Coventry

FabLab Coventry is a city centre resource, accessible to everyone, created and run by Coventry University. Coventry has a large industrial heritage; FabLab Coventry builds upon this heritage through advanced manufacturing to provide people of Coventry with the opportunity to turn ideas into reality. FabLab Coventry is part of a network of Fab Lab’s across the world! To find out …

Coventry Repair Cafe

Consists of volunteers hoping to keep items out of landfill by making them useful again. They need broken electricals, toys, bikes, textiles etc & let's see if we can help you fix them. They normally meet on the fourth Saturday of the month in Earlsdon Park Village, Albany Rd. 10am start. More information at https://www.facebook.com/RepairCafeCoventry/

Crow Recycling in Coventry

CROW Recycling is a Coventry based Social Enterprise with charitable status established in 1985. They collect cans and office waste paper and deliver shredded paper animal bedding to Coventry, Rugby, Nuneaton, Solihull, Bedworth, Hinckley, Leamington, Stratford, Warwick and their nearby villages. They also offer a confidential shredding service. Contact Crow Recycling, Orchard House Sparkbrook Street Industrial Estate Coventry CV1 5LB …

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