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 what they learnt. We’ll now be seeking additional funding to run additional sessions for interested members of the community. Below
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 recycling these elements, which the Shropshire Fire Service kindly agreed to house at the Fire Station. The new bin was
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 Terracycle Telford. The scheme launched in June 2022 and it’s proven to be a great way to engage with members
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
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, attach a tag that says “please reuse me”. Gift bags can also be donated to local charity shops for resale
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
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 and people could enter by posting a screenshot of the number of Refill points in the App. In order to
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
On May 21st Sustainable Newport were pleased to bring Daniel Webb from EveryDay Plastic to town. 50 people attended the meeting at Newport Girls High School where Daniel updated us on the findings from his plastic free experiment – where he kept and analysed his plastic waste. The event was well supported from people across
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
