Householders in London are being urged to ease the threat of landfill fines and beat the credit crunch with a free online resource called SnaffleUp.

Keen recycling fanatic Chris Toynbee, who runs a London website design company, decided to put his skills to good use by launching SnaffleUp to reduce the amount of useful household items that are needlessly thrown away and place increased pressure on the use of landfill.

The www.snaffleup.co.uk site now provides a user-friendly location where people can donate unwanted household goods and search for items that others have already posted.

SnaffleUp members can enter their postcode to search for local items and do not need to register to browse through the various categories including: home, kitchen, furniture, baby, toys & hobbies, garden & pets, computer peripherals, clothing, and crafts.

Every item is free and all collection or delivery costs are negotiated between the site’s members who can set up email alerts to inform them when items they require become available.

A forum facility has also been included on the site, as part of an ongoing improvement policy, to allow members to post their suggestions, which can be voted on by other members of the SnaffleUp community.

Chris is hoping London householders will join the SnaffleUp community and help to combat the throwaway culture that has seen the UK become the worst EU country for dumping waste into landfills – amounting to 27m tonnes, according to the Local Government Association (LGA).

“London boroughs now face huge fines from imminent landfill charges under the EU’s Land Directive, yet a lot of household items that end up in landfill sites still have plenty of life in them,” says Chris Toynbee.

“I hate to throw things away needlessly and so I created the SnaffleUp.co.uk site to allow people to donate their unwanted but useful goods to others who can give them a new home.

“At a time when householders in London are feeling the credit crunch, SnaffleUp is an easy and convenient way to help save money, reduce the impact on the environment and prevent local councils from being issued with millions of pounds of landfill fines.”

www.snaffleup.co.uk

Company Name: Snaffleup
Web site: http://www.snaffleup.co.uk/
Contact name: Chris Toynbee
Contact e-mail: [email protected]
Comtact phone: +44 (0)207 5954540
Category: Recycling, Enviroment
Release date: November 4th 2008
Tags: Recycle, recycling, waste, waste disposal, waste management
Zip Code: SVW 01

JAG Communications is trialling a brand-new handset recycling scheme in three of the company’s branches.

Members of the public can return broken, unwanted or obsolete handsets to JAG branches in Llanelli, Port Talbot and Cirencester. The handsets will then be sent off to Banana Green –the recycling service for JAG’s repair company Total Repair Service.

Handsets sent to Banana Green will be repaired, refurbished disassembled for parts. Repaired handsets will be sent out for sale in developing countries with fledgling telecommunications industries.

JAG Communications Managing Director John George said: “It’s easy to forget, being Westerners; that a lot of economies throughout the world are only just getting to the point where civilian mobile phone ownership is a reality. They have fledgling communications infrastructures and it’s highly encouraging to be working with a company which aims to improve their quality of life by supplying them with cheap, working handsets.”

If the scheme proves successful, JAG Communications will consider implementing the system in all 148 of the company’s branches.

Area Manager for Wales and the surrounding counties Clark Hartnell said: “We’re striving to explore as many environmental solutions as we can. As long as we keep looking for more ways to improve the way we run our business and reduce our impact on the environment then we can at least say that we’re trying our best to set a positive example.”

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JAG Background

JAG Communications was established by John Alfred George in 1991 in Par, Cornwall.

Since then, JAG has risen to become the UK’s third-largest independent mobile phone retailer, with a chain of 150 branches spanning England, Wales and Northern Ireland.

JAG provides contracts and handsets on all five major UK networks. JAG employees are not given sales scripts and are encouraged to run their individual branches as they deem appropriate. JAG’s workers are trained to treaty each customer as an individual and to address their specific needs according to their unique requirements. By operating in this way, JAG is famous for high quality customer service.

Amongst JAG’s 500 employees are both of John George’s children, Kailey and Kevin, and John’s wife and Co-Director of JAG, Sue.

When he is not running JAG Communications, John George races in the HiQ MSA British Touring Car Championship in a JAG-branded (and JAG sponsored) Honda Integra Type R. John George also owns and operates Perranporth Airfield in Cornwall, situated next to JAG’s Head Office. John George commutes to work from his house in Guernsey every day in his own Turbo Prop Aeroplane.

For more information about JAG Communications or to arrange an interview with a member of JAG personnel, please contact JAG’s Press and Public Relations Officer on 08452246308.