Notes from WAGs meeting Mon Sept 2nd at 2pm at Jill's house

 

1. Plastics collection Sat Sept 7th

Paula to attempt to put an ad/some editorial in Courier of Fri Sept 6th. Was agreed that we put future editorial/ads in the Courier that comes out 8 days before the plastics collection event now that the paper is weekly

Jill to check High Street etc. for posters and put up as necessary and to bring remaining posters to collection on Sat. We have about 100 left but agreed not to print more before a new schedule of collections for 2014 was decided.

Charles to bring table/rocks/ signs/safety tape etc as usual

Anne to bring High Viz jackets

Charles to call Trish of PWS and remind her

Anne to call Peck & Strong to remind

Anne to email Chris, Jenny and Stella to see if they can help

All to assemble at 9.15am to set up

Charles to add high viz jackets to risk assessment

Paula to liaise with PWS at Cheriton Fitzpaine and supervise pick up from there

 

2. Biscuit Wrappers

Jill had collected a large bin bag full from the boxes in the town but Haywards did not seem to be doing much.

Collection to be brought to a halt around Sept 24th as wrappers must be received by McVities by Oct 7th

Anne to check with Landscore and liaise with Esther re any wrappers there by Sept 24th.

Esther to collect from Food Bank, Courier, Ashtons and Haywards for Sept 24th and liase with Paula to hand wrappers over.

Paula to package up and send off.

Paula to do an editorial piece re last date for wrapper collection ASAP

Esther to collect in the plastic boxes where possible

 

3. WAGs Web Page

It was generally agreed that it already looked pretty good and that the name should remain as Waste Action Group.

Charles will add all the leaflets we have created to the site.

All to send Charles any leaflets they have stored on their computers

We should add any new projects we are thinking of to the 3R's page

Anne to update the Devon Waste figures

Charles to update individual page headings (not sure what this means!)

Anne to write 'An Idiots Guide to Recycling' to add to the site and use at events.

Anne to create a basic list for Idiots Guide above and email to all then everyone to add to Anne's list all other details they know of in time for next meeting if possible.

Charles to talk to Sarah about re-ordering data so newest 'news' appears at top not bottom and/or to unpublish old and out of date news articles

 

4. Rubbish Diet

Esther did not feel it was suitable to ask the housholds in Oakfield Rd to do this as they appeared to be pretty good recyclers anyway

Charles explained the programme consists of about 12 households and one bin doctor over 8 weeks  with a structured approach.

Agreed that this would be a good programme to do if we had more human resources but was not practical at the moment

Paula would write a 'Help Wanted' slip to give out at next Plastics Collection to try and drum up support for this project and WAGs work in general including help with plastics collections

 

5. Plastic Bag Petition

Esther had looked at several on line petitions but none had a lot of support currently. She would look again at some of them.

We would not start a petition of our own at present as plastic bags were not evidently 'sexy' waste currently!!

Would put this on our website list of potential projects

 

6. Clothes & Household Goods Swap

There was a lot of discussion about whether we should hold a joint event again next year or split them and where to hold the event given the expense of the Boniface Centre and how this impacts on the Household Goods section of the event.

It was finally agreed that Paula should contact the Boniface and see if the dates of 15/22/29th March and 5th April were available and book one of them as we could cancel at a later date if we found somewhere more suitable.

Paula would also investigate Crediton Rugby Club and Crediton Football Club premises.

Anne also wondered whether we could hold some 'pop up shop' events for household goods in empty shops on the High St. Another one for our list of future projects!

 

7. Any Other Business

7.1. Core Group are intending to hold a get together for all Sus Cred groups and members with a speaker and open space brainstorm in the new year. We agreed that WAGs was interested in attending and would like to have a speaker. We could not think of any inspirational waste related speakers except Nicky Scott of Proper Job Chagford who we could contact if the Core Group wanted us to.

7.2  Anne asked whether we should change the name of The Waste Action Group. After discussion we agreed to leave it as it is

7.3  Anne has been invited to talk to Transition Honiton about plastics in September. Esther to go with her.

7.4 Anne suggested we give Landscore school a few ideas for projects their Little Rotters group might undertake in the next school year. A Freecycle event was mentioned or a project highlighting the menace of plastic bottle. Anne will contact the school.

  7.5 It was agreed that we would hold a WAGs lunch in November at Esthers 17 Oakfield Road, at 12.30pm on Mon Nov 11th and invite along Nancy, Stella, Chris and Jenny and anyone who responded to our leaflet.

All to bring food to share.

After lunch we will have an 'Open Space' discussion about the future of the WAGs group in 2014 and beyond, what projects we would like to get started on, what existing projects we would continue and where we go from here.

 

8. Next Meeting

2 meetings have been arranged:

Monday 28th October at 2pm at Jills - normal WAGs meeting

Monday 11th Nov at 12.30pm at Esthers - future of WAGs meeting

Meeting closed at 4.30pm.

Notes from last meeting