Cycle Parking locations

On your bike?

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If you've cycled to Newport there are many places where you can secure your bike - Please see the map below for details. Bike parking

Climate Fresk training

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We had our first trial of Climate Fresk training in February at the Newport library, facilited by our vice chair Susanne Bearblock. The training was a success with participants being happy with the outcome and…

Image of the sticker on the Tetrapak bin showing what types of items can be recycled there

Our new Bin!

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After gathering the evidence from our Hard to recycle events about just how many tetrapaks and other mixed element recycling we were gathering we've partnered with Newport Town Council to have a new Bin for…

Chairs report AGM – 2022

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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…

Volunteers at the library behind a table, accepting "hard to recycle" waste next to Sustainable Newport Banner

Hard to recycle collection

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Our volunteers Jane Cooper and Sandra Crabb put forward the idea of aggregating "Hard to recycle" items to take on to larger locations such as Roots in Stafford, the Household recycling Centre in Hortonwood or…

Chairs report 2020 AGM

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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…

Everyday Plastic Audit – Lockdown Edition Challenge

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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…

GreenXmas

A sustainable Christmas

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Tips to try for reducing your environmental impact this Christmas For wrapping and gifts Gift bags may contain non-paper content so it is best to use them again and again.  If you use gift bags,…

PFC approved

We made it!

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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…

National Refill Day competition

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June 19th is National Refill Day and to commemorate the occasion and celebrate how many Refill points we now have we ran a competition. Water bottles were donated by Number 45 and Be Bold Media…