Pack for Good
This campaign gives you the opportunity to donate unwanted items such as clothes, electricals, books and furniture to British Heart Foundation (BHF) collection banks on campus and in the local community.
As students vacate their Nottingham homes at a similar time each year, waste management needs to be taken into consideration. Since 2012 the University of Nottingham has joined forces with Nottingham Trent University and Nottingham City Council to support the Pack for Good campaign.
The donated items — which would otherwise likely have ended up in landfill — are taken to BHF charity shops, where they are sold on to make money. The money raised supports the lifesaving research and work of the BHF.
In the years the campaign has been running for, students living in halls and in the community have both donated generously. It has been a remarkable effort which, in partnership with Nottingham City Council and Nottingham Trent University, has raised over £1.65million for the charity.
The British Heart Foundation raises money to fund research into cures and treatments for a whole range of heart and circulatory conditions– this has included supporting research projects led by scientists at the University of Nottingham investigating strokes, vascular dementia and using stem cell biology to tackle heart attacks.
Not only have the donations raised money which has gone into life saving research, but all of the donations could have ended up in the general waste stream. In total, the donations have diverted a staggering 1106 tons of items from landfill after 29,678 bags of donations have been collected.
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