Present: Paula, Jill, Charles, Anne, Esther, Carolyn

 

1. Plastics Collection Sat 2nd Nov

Leaflets are still displayed in many Crediton shops

Anne - will phone Peck & Strong to remind, bring gazebo, send an email reminding all helpers, contact John Turner age 11 and agree he can help, will liase with Sandford Parish Council regarding potential collections in Sandford at Parish Hall

Jill - will ring PWS to remind, will be in Square on Fri giving out Credit Union leaflets if anyone wants to join her to give out plastics leaflets

Paula - will highlight Jan date on all remaining leaflets, supervise Ch Fitz collection, remind PWS to pick up from Thornes if necessary

Charles - will bring table, rocks, leaflets, tape, advertising lollipops and banners and remind Thornes re possible collection of milk bottles from the end of their drive.

All leftover leaflets after Sat to be put in Ashtons, Morrisons and the library to use them up, advertise the Jan collection.

 

2. Biscuit Wrapper Collection

This is now closed. Approx 2.8kgs of wrappers were collected in 8 parcels. We earned £46 from the wrappers and another £20 for being the 15th largest collection in the UK making a total of £66 altogether.

Charles will investigate how the money is transferred to the Food Bank from Tetracycle.

Paula will contact Sue at the Food Bank and see if we can arrange a 'photo shoot for a mock cheque handover' which we can use to attach to a press release for publicity.

 

3. Website

Charles has put leaflets onto website and spoken to Sarah about how to reorder information on site so newest shows first. He needs to experiment to find out how to do this.

Anne has started the idiots guide to recycling and showed the current document around. She will resend vis email to all.

Everyone is asked to give the document lots of thought and send Anne their comments/suggestions/additions so they can be reviewed at the next meeting.

Charles to send Junkmail to everyone via email each time it comes out and to put it on the web page.

Esther to investigate how paint and furniture can be recycled

Charles to investigate best way to recycle mobile phones locally preferably.

 

4. New Helpers 

Charles will take volunteer list to plastics collection on Sat and attempt to add to it asking for email contacts as well as telephone numbers.

After Nov 11th meeting we will divide up the list bewteen us and contact everyone on it to find out who would like to help with our plans for projects in 2014.

 

5. Clothes Swap 

Paula has provisionally booked Boniface Centre for March 22nd 2014

Charles will check out facilities/cost of Crediton Football Club

Paula will check out cost/facilities of Crediton Rugby Club

Final decision as to whether event will be held at Boniface in a similar format to last year or whether it will change to a different format will be taken on Nov 11th.

 

6. Transition Honiton Talk

Anne had undertaken the talk. Approx 16 people had attended including members of Transition Honiton, Sustainable Ottery, Sustainable Wellington and 2 East Devon Councillors.

Anne went through how we got started and what our collections involve.

Honiton are looking to perhaps start a collection on their monthly market day.

SITA are opening a plastics recycling/heat from plastic plant at Bristol in the near future which may change whole market for plastics.

Legislation is likely to come into being in Devon to standardise recycling across the county and mean that all plastic bottles are collected across Devon.

 

7. Future of Our Group Lunch Mon Nov 11th

Will be at Esthers and will start at 12.30pm

12.30pm to 1pm - intro to what we have achieved so far split into 3 R's sections on 3 fli[p chart sheets - organised by Anne

1pm  to 2pm      - Lunch Post It notes and pens on the table for all to brainstorm ideas over lunch and put them onto the flip chart sheets in relevant sections. Paula to provide pens and post its

2pm to 3pm       - review post it notes and make decisions on the future

                        - what do we continue with that we are currently doing

                        - what things we are currently doing do we want to change

                        - what new things would we like to achieve

Aim to finish event by 3pm.

Everyone to bring food to share as agreed.

Paula to contact Karen and ask her if she would like to come.

People who come to plastics collection on Sat also to be invited where appropriate.

Paula to email Stella, Chris and Nancy who have all said they are coming to ask them to bring food.

Carolyn to contact Jenny Hole and to resend her Paula's email asking her to come as for some reason emails from Paula do not seem to get through to her. 

 

8. Little Rotters

Anne felt that she was constantly chasing this group and getting very little response.

Agreed she should leave it for the Rotters to contact us if they wanted our support.

 

9. Any Other Business

Jill reported that Uffculme have a Green Day on May 10/14 and felt it would be a good place for a bin doctor project.

Jill to give Delia Kennedy of Uffculme Charles' contact details so she can get in touch with him for details of how it works if she wants to.

    

10. Next Meeting

Our next meeting is the event discussing our future on Mon Nov 11th

Following that:-

Next 2 Committee Meetings will be:-

Mon 2nd Dec at 2pm at Jill's

Mon 6th Jan at 2pm