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Welcome to our History page's where you can read about some of ecco's achievements and successes that have been covered in the local press

The big material benefits of recycling!
October 20 2005
(Star front page)

Ecco Group's Big Tenth Birthday
August 18 2005

Lotto Grant Aids the Fabric
of Recycling
May 5 2005

Show Time
June 11 2003 (Citizen front page)

New Uses for Old Clothes
February 26 2003

Recycling a Good Scheme
May 29 2003

Recycled Cash
May 21 2003

Photograph supplied by Guardian Newspaper

Rags to riches:

Representatives from ECCO, Harlow Council, LMB and St. Elizabeth’s Centre with bags of textiles.

A textile recycling scheme piloted in Church Langley last December is to be rolled out to the rest of Harlow.

The kerbside collection project, funded through a £52,000 Department for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs grant, proved to be so popular with the 3,500 people involved in the two-week pilot that the service is to be expanded.

The project is a joint venture between the Environmental Conservation Co-operative (ECCO), Harlow Council and residents at the St. Elizabeth’s Centre, Much Hadham, who will be delivering free sacks to homes across the town for people to bag up their unwanted clothes.

Items for collection include old clothes, shoes, hats, belts, bags, curtains and bed linen.

ECCO director Sean Folan said: “We would like to thank everyone in Church Langley who took part in the pilot. The extension of this project not only has the desired result of diverting a significant amount of recyclables from landfill, but also that jobs and therapeutic work for socially excluded people have been created.”

Clothing collected will go to developing countries in Eastern Europe and Africa, while textiles not suitable for wearing will be recycled into items such as cleaning cloths, car installation and upholstery.