Mission:  To provide supported training and paid employment to service users with learning disabilities enabling them to access other employment, work experience or educational opportunities.

SORTED! (Supported Opportunities in Recycling Training and Employment Development) is a recycling project run from our Barford Countryside Unit.  It provides supported training and paid employment for ten people with a learning disability.  The main aim is to help team members build self-confidence and learn new skills to help them into other employment or training.  The project also promotes good environmental principles and provides a valuable community recycling service, minimising the amount of waste going to landfill.  The team of recyclers collect aluminium cans, foil, ink cartridges and mobile phones from sixty-one sites in the Salisbury and the surrounding area using their purposely designed SORTED! van.  The waste is then taken back to the project base to be sorted, professionally crushed and baled.  It’s then sold on to the re-processor.

• In 2006 the SORTED! team collected 1364 bags of foil and 724 bags of cans, producing 4.8 tonnes of foil and 1.8 tonnes of crushed cans.

• SORTED! was the official recycler of the Larmer Tree Festival in 2006 and 2007

You can help...

Please collect your aluminium cans, foil, mobile phones and ink cartridges for SORTED!  You can either bring them to Alabaré's Head Office in Salisbury (click here for details), to Barford Countryside Unit (see address above), or for larger quantities, please call us to arrange a collection.  If your company or business is able to collect mobile phones and ink cartridges, please call us as we can provide you with a dedicated box to store them in which we can collect when full.

Click here to download our Recycling Poster