Dear all, My name is Natalie Reeves and I am new to this forum. I am the director of a local business called Northwest Recycling Centre Ltd and we recycle old clothes and textiles and old electronics. We have a depot in Old Swan and employ local people and work in synergy with local people to grow and earn together and therefore to empower communities. We pay for old clothes and some electronics and have recently revisited our roots by bringing back the old and well loved tradition of the Rag and Bone man in his modern van back to the streets of Liverpool and it has proved very successful and helps to divert many hundreds of tons of potentially hazardous waste away from Liverpool land fill sites each year, keeping our taxes down in the process. It is all too often the case that modern innovations move further and further away from where we came from and therefore we lose our identity. The Rag and Bone men existed throughout the eighteen and nineteen hundreds appearing in many novels and fuelling the imaginations of authors such as Dickens and Carole, but it wasn't just their rag and bone cart, clothes and dirty faces that gave them their appeal. They offered a real way for people to make do and mend and trade in their old unwanted things, which were often another man's treasure. Reuse at this point in history was at it's absolute height with only the most unusable old rags and tatters going to tip sites. In that respect they were well ahead of their time. We aim to bring this tradition back, and pay the community for their waste in a fair trade. Get in touch if you need to raise money either for your family, your school, your business, your charity or your community group. We pay the best rates around for your old clothes (up to five pound a bin bag!) and send an authentically dressed Rag and Bone man to your premises to use as publicity for your activity of group. Public can also drop off their electronic and textile waste to our site at any time between monday to friday 8.30-5pm So join our Go Green Businesses and lead the way in environmental performance in the area, and make Liverpool a better and safer place to live and work Thank you for listening, Kind regards Natalie Reeves Commercial Director Northwest Textiles Recycling Northwest Electronics Recycling Carnegie Road, Old Swan Liverpool L13 7HH www.northwesttextiles.co.uk www.northwestelectronics.co.uk 0151 228 5626