Alloa Community Enterprises

ACE in the Glasgow Herald

Thu, 24 Jan 2008 09:55:52 +0000

ACE were recently featured in a four page spread in the Glasgow Herald which highlighted not only our current succesful projects but also our plans for the future.

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Businesses are offered an ACE recycling service

Thu, 16 Aug 2007 12:16:08 +0100

A NEW recycling service for small businesses is being launched in Clackmannanshire by Alloa Community Enterprises.

ACE will officially start collecting paper, cardboard, cans and bottles from small businesses next month. While domestic recycling has taken off in Clackmannanshire-taking the county to the top of the recycling league for local authorities in Scotland-business recycling has been put on a back-burner.

Just over two years ago, ACE withdrew a free recyclable waste service for business in the county, saying that it was no longer financially viable without introducing a charge. Waste previously collected by ACE has since ended up in landfill.

However, thanks to Scottish Executive funding, ACE is now able to relaunch the business recycling service, this time with a small charge. Malcolm McArdle, tole the Advertiser, 'Previously we didn't have enough staff or vehicles and decided to focus on making sure the kerbside collections were a priority. Now they are running properly we have started to look at businesses again.

'We have had a lot of supprt from the Increase Fund, which is an Executive funded project. 'They have been helping us develop the idea with marketing support, and we have employed three new staff and invested in two new vehicles and are looking to get another two in the future.'

Mr McArdle also said that small business in the area has been supportive of plans for the new service, which will be cost effective and more efficient than it was in the past. He is also confident that the small business service will ensure that Clackmannanshire continues to build on its recycling success. 'ACE has been providing recycling services to the Clackmannanshire community for over 23 years,' said Mr McArdle.

'The kerbside scheme has proven that we can operate in the mainstream business market and we are sure businesses will find our new Small Business Waste Recycling service very efficient and cost effective.' Keith Brown MSP was one of the first to benefit from ACE's new service and he also feels business recycling is vitally important in continuing the county's success. He said, 'I am delighted to be one of ACE's first customers for their new project aimed at helping small businesses recycle their waste.

'There is much being done to raise awareness about domestic recycling so sometimes commercial recycling is forgotten about. Every opportunity to encourage businesses to look after and improve the environment should be grasped.'

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Community Sector Partnership helps Clackmannanshire Council Top Recycling League

Mon, 06 Aug 2007 11:25:40 +0100

According to SEPA's latest figures for municipal recycling in Scotland, Clackmannanshire Council have once again come out on top with a remarkable recycling/composting figure of 41.3% for the period June 2005 to June 2006.

As well as an area wide green waste collection and improved CA Site facilities Clackmannanshire's success is also based on their source-segregated kerbside collection provided by Alloa Community Enterprise, one Scotland's foremost community sector recyclers who introduced a kerbside collection in part of Clackmannanshire as a pilot as far back as 2001.

The Scottish Environment Protection Agency (SEPA) released the latest waste figures for Scottish local authorities, and they show that "25.3% was recycled or composted in the rolling year to June 2006".

Most local authorities are on track to reach the targets of 25% recycling and composting, according to figures released yesterday.

A grand total of 3,393,354 tonnes of municipal solid waste was produced in Scotland from July 2005 to June 2006.

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An ACE new website

Tue, 31 Jul 2007 10:17:44 +0100

August sees the launch of the new recycleit.org.uk website.

We would like to welcome you to the new ACE website which we hope will be a source of invaluable help to the communities which we serve. We have provided a variety of useful information (like recycling tips, frequently asked questions and a downloads section) and hope to develop this with the help of you, the people that we serve. We welcome your questions and comments regarding recycling, our community work and the website in general. It is only with input from our customers that the site will become a constantly developing resource for the people we serve

As well as launching this website ACE have extended their support for community fund raising. A number of local groups already benefit from the Cash for Cans scheme and we have now introduced our Cash for Textiles scheme. For further information about these fund raising opportunities please contact us and we will get back to you as soon as possible.

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