Notes from WAGs meeting Monday Oct 1st at 3pm at Jills house.
 
Present:Charles, Paula, Jill, Anne, Carolyn, John
 
1. Plastics
a. Phillippa Lausen from Winkleigh came to talk to us about their plastics recycling scheme. We swapped ideas and experiences and Phillippa is going to look into the possibility of getting recycling credits for their group.
 
b. Morrisons
Since the previous meeting Morrisons staff at Crediton had told Anne that we were no longer welcome to have plastics collections at their store car park. No explanation was given.
 
  This was discussed at length and it was decided that the next step re Morrisons would be for Charles to write to Martin Jones and Phillippa Hadfield at Morrisons HQ by email to get confirmation of this and ask for reasons why.
 
Anne would then send off the petition to Morrisons at an address confirmed by Charles keeping a copy for our records.
 John would look into becoming a Morrisons shareholder with a view to being able to attend write to Morrisons as a shareholder and also attend an AGM and kick up a fuss!
Paula had written a draft press release re the results of the scheme so far and Morriosons decision and All were asked to email her their suggested changes and additions by Mon 8th October so she could revise it.

c. Punchbowl/Ashleigh recycling Centres
Paula put forward the idea that we should be promoting Punchbowl/Ashleigh as the places to take plastic from now on. Charles pointed out last year less than 11 tonnes of plastic had been taken to Punchbowl in the whole year. If we could increase this the increase would be easily measured and would constitute a success for the group with little to no cost or physical exertion!  Anne agreed to contact DSS about promoting Punchbowl and ask how we can help.
 
d. Torbay/Unilever
Charles had heard nothing of use from Unilever yet.He will send them our press release once it is ready.
John had made some useful investigations into how Torbay operated their plastic collection scheme and confirmed that a portion of the plastic recyclate is processed in the UK. He will continue discussions with Torbay and report back any further useful outcomes. He also reported on his recent trip to the Mechanical Waste Recovery Facility in Exeter
 
e. Recycling Credits. Anne confirmed we have received about £150 in recycling credits for our 5 plastics copllection efforts.
 
2. Revision of Website
As time was short Paula asked everyone to look at the aims and objectives she had prepared as a replacement for the existing WAGs home page  and comment by email before the next meeting so an update of the Home Page can be made in November.
 
3. Future Events
Paula & Charles reported on their recent visit to Honiton Waste Not Want Not event. They had reached the conclusion that the event was worthwhile but would require the collection and storage of bric a brac in advance if we were to run an event on the lines of the Honiton one. It would also require quite a lot of labour to set up.
 
All were asked to think over whether they wanted to run this type of WNWN event in the spring of 2013, repeat the Clothes Swap of 2012 or do a different event entirely and come to the next meeting with some ideas.
 
4. Next Meeting
This will take place at Jills on Monday Nov 12th at 2.30pm.