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
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
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
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
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 marine plastic pollution at source. Launch day saw more than 15 locations added to the app which was a great result. How it works The Refill idea
