Recycle Your Old Mobile Phone, Earn Money & Help The Planet

How many of us have old mobile phones lying around in a drawer, doing absolutely nothing and just collecting dust? I know the team at The Recycle Works collectively have quite a few!
Did you know though that if you send your old mobile to Envirofone, not only will they send you an amount of money [...]

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Polanters – Great Stocking Fillers!

I cannot remember if I have told you about the new Polanter, get it, Pole-Planter? We know it will be a great summer seller on the website, but we want you to have the opportunity to give it to someone for Christmas. The quality is first rate as it has been designed by an aircraft [...]

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More Wisdom from FoE – Green Screen

Prevent windscreen fluid from freezing up on cold winter nights by mixing one part water with two parts white vinegar and filling the reservoir with the blend. This should keep the system free of ice crystals in cold conditions, enabling you to clean muddy windscreens in the morning. 
Thank you to Friends of the Earth……
Love Your Environment!

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A Topical Poem For You

A Customer on the Isle of Mull sent us this brilliant fun verse. This week it will ring home with most of us in UK:
 
It rained and rained and rained and rained
The average was well maintained
And when our fields were simply bogs
It started raining cats and dogs
After a drought of half an hour
There came a [...]

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Great New Product – The Polanter

This week at The Recycle Works the new products are definitely for Summer! But we thought you would like to show them or give them to your friends. Polanters really are new on the market and we think they look georgous. As we are GYO buffs we suggest that you plant with strawberries, but there are [...]

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Plug & Grow Horticultural Light Spectrum

We recieved a question from one of our Recycle Works customers this week and thought the answer might be of interest to a lot of our customers and hence sharing it with you on the blog…..
Q: Hello, I was wondering what light spectrum the envirolite 200w lamp provides? Is it a light/blue or red? I [...]

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Another Fabulous Recipe – Spiced Sloe Jelly!

You’ve been asking us for more of our own recipes so here’s one from Sylvia at The Recycle Works that I’m told is absolutley amazing. Let’s hope there’ll be enough for me to try some!
How To Make Spiced Sloe Jelly
Collect the sloes! Say, about  5 lbs Sloes should be plenty.
Cover with Water, add2 cinnamon sticks and [...]

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Our Special Offer Emails

We have been sending out a number of special offers as we are aware that money is still tight for most of us. They are independent to Sylvia’s Briefs. We are directing them to attract a varied range of customers, so many may not be for you.
However as most of us are buying for someone [...]

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The Recycle Works Competes For Top UK Award

The Recycle Works, a Ribble Valley Company is in the running for prestigious UK business award after coming top in the North West region.
The Recycle Works has won the region’s Award for ‘Innovation Through Technology’, sponsored by Dell. It will now go through to compete for the national crown at this year’s British Chambers of [...]

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New Product Range – Leather Gardening Gloves

As I know, you always appreciate something that is well made to a high standard whilst being affordable and environmentally sound. Well today you will be well pleased with a new order of Gardening Gloves just arrived. They really are the business and, again with gifts in mind we have one pair for almost everybody.
Gloves [...]

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