Chairs report AGM – 2022

The last 12 months have slowly seen a gradual reintroduction to our new normal, with someface-to-face activities starting to resume which has helped to offset the ongoing “online fatigue”and increase in ability to create new collaborations. The increase in the cost of living and thereal impacts we have seen over the last week has highlighted

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Chairs report 2020 AGM

Plastic Free Newport Simone continues to make herself known around the county as the go to person to start a plastic free town campaign including TWC. She has helped set up and mentor Shropshire Against Pointless Plastic and did a talk at the Green Shrops exchange AGM. We were also finalists for the BESST Sustainable

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Everyday Plastic Audit – Lockdown Edition Challenge

This week my family joined 100 UK households to collect and analyse our single use plastic waste.  We collected the (clean) plastic in a separate bin, hunted down rogue plastic in the “regular” bin, and kept a tally chart of “personal” plastics such as dental floss.  It became a game.  Was every scrap of plastic accounted for?  A few

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PFC approved

We made it!

Newport, Shropshire is Awarded ‘Plastic Free Communities’ Status as it Takes Action on Single-Use Plastic. Newport has joined a network of communities across the UK who are leading the way to tackle throw away plastic at source. The town has been awarded Plastic Free Community status by marine conservation charity, Surfers Against Sewage (SAS), in

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Chairs report 2019 AGM

What a difference a year makes. It is fantastic to have so many more people interested in all things sustainable. Having re-branded earlier in the year it is now more obvious what we stand for and my thanks go to Simone Whitfield for helping with this.Pass It OnPreviously as Newport 21 we had very few

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Newport Coffee Cup

Following on from the inspiration Zero Waste Events gave us at the Field to Fork Festival in May, and the success of the Shrewsbury Cup the Sustainable Newport team decided to bring this scheme to our town. We put the order in with Cup Solutions with a planned delivery date in time for our stand

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Field to Fork

On Saturday, May 4th Sustainable Newport were invited to stand at the Harper Adams Field to Fork Festival. This was our first public standing since our re-branding and Shropshire Festivals had put us in touch with Alison Thomas from Zero Waste Events. We had fantastic engagement from the community by acting as a cup return

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