Eastex Materials Exchange is a free, web-based scheme where businesses can re-home unwanted materials rather than sending them to landfill. Other businesses, community groups and schools can benefit from donations of unwanted materials.
The scheme is based on the premise that one business’ waste is another’s raw material.
Did you know…?
Forum for the Future, the national sustainable development charity, which was co-founded by environmental guru Jonathon Porritt, recently called upon Eastex to kit out its offices with second hand furniture.
Did you know…?
Eastex has been so successful that it has been adopted in Yorkshire by the Regional Development Agency
“Eastex saves
thousands of items
from ending up in landfill. What
is rubbish to one person is extremely
useful to another. Eastex provides
a second chance for ‘rubbish’and
continues to save businesses money -
£1.5 million to date.”
Kim Coley, Eastex Coordinator,
Peterborough Environment
City Trust
Eastex by numbers:
Saved local businesses over £1.5 million in waste disposal and procurement costs.
Diverting 10,000 tonnes of goods from landfill. Saving around
17,000 tonnes of Carbon Dioxide.
Over 11,000 members registered.
Case study…
John Lewis off-cuts put to good use…
John Lewis store in Peterborough contacted Eastex to re-home a number of rolls of surplus material. Eastex posted the items on the website and within a week Peterborough City Council had been in touch requesting the material for an exciting new project with Peterborough Prison. The off-cuts are being used to make reusable shopping bags as part of the Get a Green Grip Peterborough campaign to reduce the number of plastic bags used in the city. The bags are being made by the prisoners providing them with new skills and a sense of teamwork and pride.
For more information about the project visit the Eastex website: www.eastex.org.uk
Peterborough Environment City Trust, The Green House, 1st Floor, 4-6 Cowgate,
Peterborough PE1 1NA t 01733 568 408 e info@pect.org.uk f 01733 553 716
