Eastex Materials Exchange

Eastex Materials Exchange
www.eastex.org.uk
What is the Material
Exchange?
• A FREE online service to help keep surplus re-usable
items in circulation
• For businesses, voluntary organisations, societies,
councils and schools
• Eastex actively exploits the principle that one persons
waste is another’s raw material
• Allows unwanted materials to be passed on or sourced
efficiently
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Eastex Materials Exchange
• Eastex is a national exchange covering the 6
counties in East Anglia:
- Bedfordshire
- Essex
- Norfolk
- Cambridge
- Hertfordshire
- Suffolk
• Funding awarded by the East of England
Development Agency (EEDA) and from
Bedfordshire County Council.
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3 Key Aims
DIVERT re-usable goods
from landfill
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3 Key Aims
DIVERT re-usable goods
from landfill
SAVE members money with
disposal or procurement costs
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3 Key Aims
DIVERT re-usable goods
from landfill
SAVE members money with
disposal or procurement costs
PREVENT the release of
CO2 from waste going to
landfill
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The waste Hierachy
Elimination
Reduction
Re-use
Recycling/Recovery
Disposal
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The waste Hierachy
Elimination
Reduction
Eastex
Re-use
Recycling/Recovery
Disposal
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How does Eastex divert material?
Waste disposal is reduced through material
exchanges via the website
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The Hidden Cost of Waste
Labour
materials
water
energy
time
packaging
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Eastex saves £money£
Disposal costs:
• Storage
• Transport
• Landfill tax
Procurement costs:
• Purchasing
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What your county
coordinator can do
• FREE waste review site visit
• Help identify materials for exchange
• Create or delete adverts on the exchange
• Facilitate exchanges
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Eastex Successes
Over last two years:
• Recruited over 4,700 members
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Eastex Successes
Over last two years:
• Recruited over 4,700 members
• Facilitated over 4,200 exchanges
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Eastex Successes
Over last two years:
• Recruited over 4,700 members
• Facilitated over 4,200 exchanges
• Diverted over 9,000 tonnes from landfill
www.eastex.org.uk/beds
Eastex Successes
Over last two years:
• Recruited over 4,700 members
• Facilitated over 4,200 exchanges
• Diverted over 9,000 tonnes from landfill
• Saved members over £1,400,000 in disposal and
procurement costs
www.eastex.org.uk/beds
Eastex Successes
Over last two years:
• Recruited over 4,700 members
• Facilitated over 4,200 exchanges
• Diverted over 9,000 tonnes from landfill
• Saved members over £1,400,000 in disposal and
procurement costs
• Prevented release of over 15,000 tonnes of CO2
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Case Studies
Mid Bedfordshire District council
&
NOAH Enterprises, a Christian
Charity, working with
disadvantaged communities
Newcastle Foundry gets specialist sand
delivered in cardboard tubes.
Personalised pots able to re-use tubes
to send out their products
Other successful exchanges
Small exchanges include furniture, buckets, crates, wood
shavings and a piano!
Need help?
Contact Bedfordshire county coordinators:
Charlotte Damary-Homan and Clare Boddy
Tel: 01799 524 328
Email: cboddy@linden-consulting.co.uk
charlotted@linden-consulting.co.uk