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Eastern European modern-day slaves collecting donated clothing, UK police believe.

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Northumbria Police  and several UK newspapers have reported an arrested of six people after a number of dawn raids as part of an investigation into Modern Day Slavery in Newcastle – with potential victims believed to have been collecting…
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SCR recycling hub

Southern Cross Recycling Group is launching new services

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SCRgroup is launching a number of new services in 2018, including a home pick-up service; and clothing and electrical “Drop-Off Hubs”. Residents of Maribyrnong City Council now have access to 18 clothing and electrical drop-off hubs to…
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Calls to reintroduce the landfill levy in QLD

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The Queensland Member for Ipswich West, Jim Madden recently proposed the reintroduction of the landfill levy as a solution to reducing the level of dumping in Ipswich. Sadly the good Mr Madden has not linked the dots between increased levies…
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New NACRO website launched

We’re excited to announce that our new and refreshed NACRO website is live after months of development. There’s a whole host of material, facts and figures, all to enhance the experience of the finding more about charitable recycling.The…
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Festive Season dumping

Sadly, the festive time of the year is reliably the worst for shameful behaviour by a select few who dump on charities. This year was no different. Members used social and traditional media to call for responsible donating. The media used strong…
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NACRO VIC calls for disclosure laws for commercial recycling

In a recent article published and syndicated by the Herald Sun, NACRO criticized the diversion of charitable goods and services to private companies as a waste of resources. In response to the proliferation of donations away from benevolent…
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2018 NACRO conference

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UK charity retail growth

The latest Quarterly Market Analysis Report (July to September 2017) published by the UK Charity Retail Association in early December 2017, saw strong sales indicators, including a 5.7 per cent like for like income growth. Plus 80 per cent…
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Blockchain – fundraising of the future

The blockchain community launched a Philanthropy Foundation in September 2017, to promote the use of Blockchain technology in the not-for-profit sector to generate income.  The Foundation’s mission includes “building a new revenue…
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Michigan’s Attorney General sues commercial donation collector

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Michigan’s Attorney General has filed a lawsuit against ATRS, a Texas-headquartered company that owns and operates 251 clothing donation bins in the state, for deceptively operating the collection bins. The bins state that the Michigan…
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The way we produce, use, and reprocess clothing today is inherently wasteful, and current rising …

The Ellen MacArthur Foundation’s new report “A new textiles economy: Redesigning fashion's future´ confirms members’ views that the steady production growth in fast fashion is intrinsically linked to a decline in utilisation per item,…
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