Peterborough Evening Telegraph shouts about the Scrapheap Challenge!

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Scrapheap Challenge comes to Peterborough…

Peterborough Environment City Trust (PECT) is organising a Scrapheap Challenge in Peterborough which is being judged by presenter of the new series of the Channel 4 show, Dick Strawbridge.

The event is being held to raise the profile of ways we can manage rubbish more sustainably. PECT runs a project called Eastex Materials Exchange which works with local businesses to change the way they manage their waste materials. Eastex has re-homed over 10,000 tonnes of goods ensuring items don’t end up in landfill but are put back into the supply chain.

Re-homed items include surplus building materials, rolls of material, second hand cooking oil and even a ton of potpourri.

Ian Tennant is from Eastex, he explains, “We want to change the way people see rubbish – what may be waste to one person is another persons’ raw material.

“Through the Scrapheap Challenge we hope to encourage people, in a fun way, to help give rubbish a second chance. We hate to see useful items ending up in landfill as this is not very environmentally friendly.

“In an ideal world we would reduce the amount of waste we produce in the first place, reuse what we can’t reduce and recycle the rest.

“Teams taking part in the Challenge will have to use items that others have deemed rubbish and put them to good use.”

Teams already signed up include RECYCLE (Relatively Exuberant Collection of Young (ish) Craftsmen Led Engineers) from Perkins as well as teams from Royal Haskoning and Hereward FM.

The Peterborough Scrapheap Challenge differs slightly from the Channel 4 show because teams have a month to design and complete their challenge, however they will have to source their own scrap using a suggested supply list. It is free for teams to enter the Challenge.

Dick Strawbridge will be judging the entries at Peterborough Museum on 19th November from 4pm.