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
We were really excited to be given the opportunity by Shropshire Wildlife Trust to put up a selection of Bat and Bird boxes around the local community. Councillor Tim Nelson kindly helped liase with the council to get these installed, including at the cemetary and Wrekin avenue play area.
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 least 6 business’s to commit to removing 3 plastic items from use. In order to meet this we need your
Hello Everyone 2018 closed with a successful bond offer for a wind turbine for Small Wind Co-op and 2019 opens with news of another bond offer about to launch at the start of February for a turbine on an adjacent site in County Durham for SWC. This is a Vestas machine at High Knitsley, very near to
Looking for some ideas on how to reduce your impact this Christmas? See our list of hints and tips from our team. 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”.
