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MySkip's 24-Hour Celebrity Throwaway

 

Darius and other celebrities endorse reuse as sustainable alternative to recycling

 

MySkip.com, a website dedicated to promoting the reuse of unwanted goods, will host the UK's first-ever 24-hour 'Celebrity Throwaway' in order to raise awareness around the importance of reuse as an alternative to recycling.

Everyday items donated by celebrities will be available for free at www.myskip.com on Tuesday 3rd March 2009 and Darius has donated a mystery item which will be posted on the website at 6pm.

 

"We encourage people to participate in the 'celebrity throwaway' so they can get excited about reuse, and see that reuse is easy to incorporate into their everyday routine," added May Al-Karooni, Director of Operations, MySkip.

 

During the throwaway, users will only need to search the site for their favourite celebrity's anonymous item.

 

Reserving an item using your mobile is £1 excluding standard network charges.

 

About MySkip.com

Launched in April 2008 by two entrepreneurs, MySkip.com is the world's most secure, easy-to-use and free website that promotes reuse of unwanted goods - a virtual skip where users can, for free, either rummage or dispose of useful items that might otherwise end-up in British landfills. Celebrities, politicians and business leaders have endorsed MySkip's cause, including: The Dalai Lama; Rt. Hon David Cameron MP; Oscar winner Cuba Gooding Jr.; Sir David Attenborough; Grammy Award winner's Sheryl Crow and Peter Gabriel; Gordon Ramsay; Bafta winner Ricky Gervais; Robert Senior, CEO Saatchi & Saatchi; The United Nations; The Rockefeller Institute; Bloomberg; Bang and Olufsen; Prime Minister Nicolas Sarkozy; The Chinese Government; Barclaycard; Specsavers, Superdrug; Lloyds TSB; and, J Sainsbury's. For more information, please visit www.myskip.com.

 

This site has a video message from Darius..........it gives no date of when it was recorded, but I presume quite recently.

Thanks, Bramley. Good to see you here again. I hope you're well.

 

Did anyone see Tonight last night? They tried to get rid of a binful of recyclable plastic without any harm to the environment, and couldn't. The only real alternative to landfill was incinerating, which causes CO2 emissions.

 

It's a disgrace. Other countries can do it, even ones far smaller than the UK e.g. Belgium. They just organise collection better and spend more time sorting and separating the plastics.

 

I'm fine thanks, BT, just been extremely busy. Feels good to be back.

No, I didn't see Tonight.......have seen very little TV lately.

I know that feeling. I'm glad that's all it was. Tbh TV isn't all that great just now, I rarely consciously watch it - often as last night, it's just on in the background and might as well be radio.

The video can't be less than a year old or more than 2 years old. It was nice to see.

Does anyone know what he put in the skip?

No idea - nothing I wanted though.

:???: How do you know it's nothing you want if you don't know what he put in..

 

 

 

 

........it could be a cd of demos.....

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

:naughty:

 

 

Dream on Pam. We'd all jump in the skip for that! ;) Sue

so did anyone register and find out what it was?

There were only 3 things in his hour and I didn't want any. I can remember Dell speakers and police sunglasses but that's it.

:( so no demo cd :(

I saw a pink guitar, but maybe this was offered later.

That was offered before his hour began

The MySkip-organised "Celebrity Throwaway" revealed other interesting user statistics:

 

* Three singers, one chef and an actress feature in the list of the top five most popular celebrities;

 

* Of 145,947 page views, the stars received the following percentages: Shilpa Shetty (9.07%), Alexander O'Neal (7.95%), Sheryl Crow (7.67%), Darius Danesh (7.65%) and Gordon Ramsay (7.32%);