Plastic Free Newport

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…

We made it!

9 September, 2019 admin 0 Comments Plastic Free Newport SDG SDG13 Climate Action Uncategorized

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

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…

EveryDay Plastic talk

21 May, 2019 admin 0 Comments Plastic Free Newport Plastic Free Rallies SDG13 Climate Action

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…

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…

Plastic Free Business

26 January, 2019 admin 1 Comment Plastic Free Business's Plastic Free Newport SDG13 Climate Action SDG17 Partnership for the Goals

Objective 2 to gain Plastic Free Community status is to get business's on board with the goal to remove Single Use Plastics. To meet this objective for a population of 10,000-20,000 people we need at…

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