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Plant Allies
Sometimes the missing piece of the jigsaw puzzle is where it all began… For an organisation of people passionate about preserving the natural environment, we spend way more time in the plastic recycling or textiles workshop than we spend in the natural environment. To be frank, this does make sense.…
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‘new’ ‘away’
The word ‘new’ and that feeling of buying something that’s ‘new’ or making something out of ‘new’ materials, there’s a danger they’re all missing something that should be obvious. Everything came from somewhere else! While away in Sheffield this summer we reflected on some of the themes that regularly come…
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People Powered Plastic
This feels like a bit of a ‘use it or loose it’ moment. Yesterday Precious Plastic launched their plan for Version 5 of their project development. Since 2013 Precious Plastic HQ has supported a global community of keen beans to set up projects, start local conversations about tackling plastic pollution…
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Piece with History
Let’s be honest, there’s no need to make any more stuff out of virgin materials. Almost everything we need already exists and can be reused, repaired, renovated, recycled or reimagined. Let’s build the future out of things that are already here in our neighbourhoods and communities. In essence this is…
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HHMI or AI
A lot has changed over the last three years since we first typed “wastesmiths” into Google… Back then the word “wastesmiths” was an antegooglewhackblatt, meaning it didn’t return a single search result. Three years later, Google is offering us an AI Overview of what “wastesmiths” is. It’s nice to know…
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Gratitude
There are so many pieces of the jigsaw puzzle when trying to build a well resourced and impactful social enterprise… Over the last three years the daily grind has been focused around refining the social impact of our very environmental impact focused organisation. We’ve been perfecting our approach to teaching,…
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Populated Planters
We’re really excited to announce… We are finalists in The William Sutton Prize in Clarion Housing Group’s 125th anniversary year! Our project in contention to win this incredible prize perfectly encapsulates the extra that Social Enterprises bring to the world. Why get a contractor to install a planter when you…
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IWD2025
It’s International Women’s Day, folks. It’s no exaggeration to say Wastesmiths CIC and our WeWearTheTrousers collective would not exist if it wasn’t for the vision, hard work, generosity, knowledge and skills of the women in our organisation and our community! Running an organisation can be a big scary thing sometimes,…
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Illuminating Opportunities
Finding the right light to illuminate a giant loom seems to require an early start when there’s nobody about… However next Wednesday this latest piece of equipment, will be shared with the gathered folk for the first time at the Illuminate Norfolk event to celebrate 20 years of Norfolk Community…
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Bein’ Green
“I am green, and it’ll do fine,It’s beautiful, and I think it’s what I want to be” Kermit the frog This month we have been mostly shredding green lids at Precious Plastic East, which got us thinking. What is the history of the word green when describing things that are…
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