SDG12 Responsible Consumption and Production

Christmas Gift Vouchers

6 December, 2024 admin 0 Comments Christmas SDG12 Responsible Consumption and Production Uncategorized

This Christmas, why not create a special Christmas wish or gift of time for your loved ones? Our Vouchers can be printed so you can give them to those you care about Print this voucher…

Climate Fresk training

19 February, 2024 admin 0 Comments Carbon and Energy Climate Change SDG SDG12 Responsible Consumption and Production SDG13 Climate Action SDG17 Partnership for the Goals

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!

26 June, 2023 admin 0 Comments Reuse and Recycle SDG SDG12 Responsible Consumption and Production

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…

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

Hard to recycle collection

1 June, 2022 admin 0 Comments Reuse and Recycle SDG12 Responsible Consumption and Production

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…

Everyday Plastic Audit – Lockdown Edition Challenge

17 May, 2020 Susanne Bearblock 0 Comments Plastic Free Newport Reuse and Recycle SDG SDG12 Responsible Consumption and Production

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 sustainable Christmas

8 December, 2019 Susanne Bearblock 0 Comments Christmas Reuse and Recycle SDG12 Responsible Consumption and Production

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,…

National Refill Day competition

19 June, 2019 admin 0 Comments Plastic Free Business's Plastic Free Newport Refill Scheme Reuse and Recycle SDG12 Responsible Consumption and Production

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…

Newport Coffee Cup

8 June, 2019 admin 0 Comments Newport Cup Plastic Free Newport Reuse and Recycle SDG12 Responsible Consumption and Production SDG13 Climate Action SDG17 Partnership for the Goals

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…

Field to Fork

4 May, 2019 admin 0 Comments Plastic Free Newport Plastic Free Rallies Reuse and Recycle SDG12 Responsible Consumption and Production SDG17 Partnership for the Goals Uncategorized

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…

Newport Refill Scheme launch

28 March, 2019 admin 0 Comments Plastic Free Newport Refill Scheme Reuse and Recycle SDG12 Responsible Consumption and Production SDG17 Partnership for the Goals

Volunteers lined up to start our #RefillRevolution On March 28th Sustainable Newport kicked off the regions #RefillRevolution. The UK's Refill scheme is run by charity City to Sea a non-profit organisation running campaigns to prevent…

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