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Article: Poverty charity is furnished with waste industry award

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Evening News - Scotland
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October 18, 2006
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A CITY charity that helps people on low incomes furnish their homes has scooped a top waste industry award.

Edinburgh Furniture Initiative (EFI) provides free furniture, appliances and other household items to people on the poverty line who cannot afford to furnish their homes.

The group won the Best Community Waste Initiative award at the Scottish Waste Industry Awards, for its work at city council recycling centres where re-useable household items are saved from going to landfill.

The project started in March 2005 ...

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