Quote Bank

This is to help Volunteers with writing emails, letters, comment, appeal for support, tweets etc.

If you use the Facebook Republisher you can view the amount your group has saved in the last 31 days-
View your Facebook page
Click Edit Page
Click "Apps" (left hand side of page)
Scroll down to Freegle Republisher
Click "Go to App"
Hey presto, a page will appear giving you the estimated weight kept from landfill in the last 31 days

• "On average every person in the UK throws away their own body weight in rubbish every seven weeks."

http://www.southampton.gov.uk/s-environment/householdwaste/

• "The average kg per household per fortnight, weighted to reflect the population of the area, was 17.54 kg."

http://www.southglos.gov.uk/NR/rdonlyres/6A5A1670-6A9B-4255-91AB-15DCB28C3EC7/0/COS090013.pdf

• Pick any item from the Furniture Reuse Network list

http://www.frn.org.uk/images/stories/FRN_2009_Average_Weights_List.pdf
Calculate how much your Group saves from Landfill and divide this by the average weight of one chosen item
eg 4483kg saved from landfill is approx 118 fridges.

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