Can Can Recycling is a recycling project that provides training placements for 25 adults with a learning disabilities.

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 Bazaar developments at Can Can Recycling!
 
What a year it’s been for Can Can Recycling!!! We have been going from strength to strength and would like to thank all our collectors for their kind contributions.

 
 

2007 saw the refurbishment and re-naming of Can Can’s charity shop. Once known as the Daisy Chain, the shop was revamped and renamed Can Can Bazaar in order for people to make the connection between our two social businesses. The fresh new interior and goodies within proved a big hit with customers.
 
All good quality clothes donated through our recycling banks is sent to the Can Can Bazaar for resale.
 
 
 
Everybody do the Can Can!

Can Can Recycling has collected an amazing 6.5 tonnes of aluminium cans in 2007!
We would like to thank all of our can collectors who have made this possible, and welcome all of our new collectors who have come on board this year. Your support is very much appreciated.
 
 

How much do you know about
Can Can?

Can Can Recycling is a user led organization, which means it is run by and for adults with learning disabilities, who are supported by a full time Recycling Co-ordinator and Support Worker alongside a team of volunteers.

Can Can gives 25 adults with learning disabilities the opportunity to use their talents in a very constructive way and to play a full part in the well being of the local community.

The project has two major benefits in that it enhances the role of people with disabilities in the community and adds value to it, and it has increased awareness of environmental issues with the entire community.
The Can Can project reinvests any money raised from the recycling of waste materials back into the project.
 

WHAT DO WE COLLECT?

Aluminium Cans
Aluminium Foil
Mobile Phones
Computer Cartridges
Old Clothes, Shoes, Handbags and Belts
Bric-a-brac

 

 Can Facts…..


Every year in Northern Ireland, we dispose of enough aluminium cans, which if placed end to end would go around the coast of Ireland 7 times!


It can take between 100 and 500 years for an aluminium can to decompose.
Northern Ireland disposes of around £1 million pounds worth of aluminium cans every year.


Recycling aluminium cans saves 95% of energy used to make a can from raw material.


Recycling an aluminium can will save enough energy to power a Television for 3 hours!

 

 

 

Textile Recycling

 

Our textile recycling has been a major success in 2007, as we have expanded into the Limavady borough, placing banks in Limavady, Dungiven, Magilligan and Benone. We now service a whopping 26 textile banks in the Ballymoney, Coleraine and Limavady boroughs, so when recycling your unwanted clothing, look for the Can Can logo!

 

 

 

Please use our clothes banks to donate unwanted clothes as every single penny generated from the donations of clothes is put back into your local charity, helping local people.

 

 

 

 

Events this year...

 

This year Can Can Recycling were thrilled to have taken part in the annual Lord Mayor’s Show. Staff, volunteers and can operatives put their glad rags on to help raise awareness of our project.

 

 

An educational trip to Bryson House Recycling and Kilcreggan Urban Farm provided further insight into the recycling process beyond Can Can, and also allowed staff, trainees and volunteers to see another project in operation.

 

 

We also raised money for the “Jeans for Genes” campaign in October this year, and tried to Denimise the Nation by donating all the proceeds of denim sales in our charity shop, Can Can Bazaar.

 

 

Can Can Recycling also took part in Waste Aware Day in Coleraine town centre on the 14th and 15th of September. We were joined by various other local organizations and aimed to make people aware of our project and also highlight the importance of recycling.