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2018
5th December 2018
The clothes swap was a great success and a wonderful social
occasion with delicious refreshments, lively chat and of course
lots of clothes swapping. About 90 people attended even though it
was a really wet day and people brought in nearly one thousand
items of clothing! Hopefully everyone will hav ... 3rd December 2018
Anyone interested in Reducing, Reusing or Recycling is welcome
to come and join our small friendy group and see what we are
planning. All ideas welcome!
Notes from last meeting
... 27th November 2018
With Christmas comes extra shopping and packaging. But traders
in Crediton are helping everyone to cut down on plastic
packaging.
Stevie B's the bakers are now selling a number
of items loose. Cereals, cake ingredients including dried
fruit, cleaning products including washing powder are just a
f ... 24th November 2018
Time to dig out those winter woollies or summer cast offs: bring
along those items which you never quite get round to wearing, or
perhaps have fallen out of love with. They may be just what someone
else is looking for! And see what treasures you can find to replace
them. Come along on 24th November ...
4th November 2018
Come along to this sociable event at the Congregational Church,
High Street Crediton EX17 3LF (opposite St Saviour's Way); enjoy
coffee and cake, declutter your wardrobe and find yourself some
bargains!
Bring clothes suitable for swapping between 10.30am and noon.
These can be men's, women's, chil ... 27th October 2018
Since China closed its doors on importing used plastics
Greenpeace have unearthed where some of our plastics end
up.
The UK exports around twice as
much plastic packaging for recycling as it processes domestically -
mostly to Asia.
Between January and August 2018, the UK
exported over 88,000 tonn ... 13th October 2018
This was a conference provided by the Devon Strategic Waste
Committee which is supported by 8 District Councils and
co-ordinated by Emma Croft.
The Stats:-
Of the 7 million tons of UK household waste 5 million tons is
edible waste.
Speakers for the day included Jen Gales of A Sustainable Life, a ... 9th October 2018
1.
Present: Esther Mann, Chris Freeman, Carolyn Scott,
Frances Anson, Cathy Watten, Nancy Dowling
2.
Apologies: Matt Hulland, Ruth Leonard-Williams,
Anne Tucker
3. Matters
Arising:
Repair Café opening at Methodist Church 17th
November. Advertised on SC facebook page. All welcome.
Seed ...
8th October 2018
The Energy Saving Trust has come up with a few simple tips
and a short quiz on food waste.
Take our
quiz
Reducing food waste can help your budget as well as
the environment.
Take our quiz to find out how well you know your food
waste facts and for practical support on how to thro ... 21st September 2018
This is a high profile event staged by Devon County Council and
Recycle Devon. There is a choice of interesting workshops both
morning and afternoon and includes lunch cooked from surplus food
in the community. This is a free event and looks to be well worth
attending. Full details and how to book ... 13th September 2018
Members of Sustainable Crediton recently accepted Crediton Town
Council's offer to visit the Energy from Waste site with them.
Operational since July 2014, this facility has state of the art
technology to monitor the waste and its outputs. It takes the waste
from a population of 779,834. 55% of hou ... 8th September 2018
Members of the Waste Action Group attended an Environment Agency
event called 'Making Plastic Pollution a Thing of the Past' on
September 3rd.
There were many groups present from across the whole of Devon,
all engaged in dealing with plastic pollution. We took part in
the workshop sessions entitle ... 3rd September 2018
1.
Present: Esther Mann, Chris Freeman, Carolyn Scott,
Frances Anson, Matt Hulland (manager Exeter Recycling Centre), Emma
Mitchell,Ruth Leonard-Williams (Devon Projects worker), Cathy
Watten
2.
Apologies: Nancy Dowling, Anne
Tucker
3. Matters
Arising: Nothing that needed to be talked ... 13th July 2018
Top Tips for Reducing and
Recycling your Plastic
USE THE MID DEVON COUNCIL COLLECTION
FOR RECYCLING YOUR WASTE PLASTIC
Take shopping bags, and re-use bags
for loose fruit & veg
Try to avoid over packaged products
- you are paying for it!
Check for recycling symbols: b ...
10th July 2018
British café now serves coffee to go in ceramic
mugs
The disposable coffee cup disaster can be solved in such
a way that also purges your cluttered kitchen cabinets. It's
win-win for all!
Imagine if you could go into a coffee shop, get your delectable
latte in a china mug, and then walk out th ...
10th July 2018
The Waste Group worked in co-operation with the 'Love Food, Hate
Waste' (LFHW) project run by Resource Futures. This featured a
cookery demonstration using household surplus food that we may all
have at home, transforming it into a delicious meal. Watched by an
audience of around 50, Ruth Beckley f ... 28th June 2018
Present: Esther, Anne, Polly, Caroline S,
Chris F, Ruth L-W (love food hate waste), Emma
Apologies: Nancy, Imogen
Item
Action
Matters
Arising
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Anne heard back from the garden
club, no volunteers for compost day at present. Need a garden to
host event. ON HOLD
· ... 9th June 2018
In the 10th year of the Crediton food Festival the Waste Action
Group are demonstrating in some fun ways how not to waste food and
what to do with leftovers.
Ruth of Ruth's Real Foods will be doing a demonstration at
11am with some simple recipes to use
surplus food with tips and hints on cutting ... 10th May 2018
1.
Present
Esther, Carolyn,
Ruth, Polly, Nancy, Anne, Jill,
Chris
Apologies:
Imogen
2. Matters
arising
a) Anne has not heard back from the
Crediton Garden Club and Allotments group about
composting.
ACTION: still
ongoing.
b) Chris has contacted Allan Quicke at
the Crediton Courier re publ ... 29th March 2018
Esther Mann has been the Waste Action Group
co-ordinator for the last three years and has now stepped
down from the post. The group has decided to share the role
around the group on a rotational basis.
Although Esther is stepping back from that post, she will still
be active within the group &a ... 29th March 2018
Winner of the 'West Devon Mayoral Green Award' for 2018 was the
North Tawton Plastics Recycling Volunteer Group.
Sustainable Crediton member, Carolyn Scott helped to set up
this group as the local council do not provide kerbside facilities
for recycling plastic.
The dedicated group of volunteer ... 9th March 2018
Details of all the outlets in Crediton offering to refill water
bottles free of charge will be displayed in an exhibit in the
Library.
... 28th February 2018
Check out these two ways to stop plastic
pollution today! Submit your ideas to reduce plastic in
markets and tell Starbucks to stop trashing the
planet.
1. Solve this challenge
with us. We need your ideas to move markets and
grocery stores away from using so much plastic. Watc ...
14th February 2018
How one company is recycling marine plastics
Based in Cornwall, Fishy Filaments started with a Crowdfunding
campaign with the aim to make the UK fishery more
sustainable and take used fishing nets to transform them into
3D printer filament. The raw materials can normally be acquired at
zero cos ...
 31st January 2018
Our biggest supermarkets have become plastic waste factories,
churning out more than 800,000 tonnes of plastic packaging every
year! That's enough to cover the whole of Greater London in trash,
and it's helping to choke our oceans, kill our wildlife, even
contaminate our tap water.
But 200 cross-party MPs have just called on the UK's biggest
supermarkets, like Tesco, Sainsbury's and Marks & Spencer, to
ditch plastic packaging within five years. If enough of us get
behind them, we can supercharge their plea and get rid of a huge
source of plastic pollution for good!
Join the call for plastic-free supermarkets and share with
everyone you know. When we get to 200,000 signatures, we'll deliver
the message in person to stores up and down the country.
To the CEOs of Tesco, Sainsbury's, Morrisons, Asda, Waitrose,
Aldi, Lidl, Budgens and Marks & Spencer:
As citizens concerned about the serious threat of
plastic pollution to our planet and customers of your supermarkets,
we call on you to commit to eliminate plastic packaging by 2023.
Your bold leadership on this issue can make a real difference for
the planet and inspire hundreds of other supermarkets to join
across the world.
31st January 2018
Volunteers from Sustainable Crediton's Waste Action Group have
been signing up businesses for a new scheme to offer passers-by the
chance to refill reusable water bottles with tap water for free, as
part of a wider initiative.
Refill Devon builds on the success of Refill around
the UK, which now b ...
 20th January 2018
News - UK supermarket chain Iceland has just announced their
own-brand packaging is going plastic-free!
Many of us have felt the frustration of over-packaged food in our
weekly shop - whether it's bagged bananas or shrink-wrapped
broccoli. And this concern is justified - UK supermarkets currently
generate a whopping one million tonnes of plastic packaging
every year.
Please sign the petition and tell supermarkets to ditch
disposable plastic packaging!
Supermarkets stock thousands of different global brands, and to
target them all would be slow progress. But when it comes to their
own brand products, supermarkets have the power to
drastically reduce the plastic on their shelves.
The recent ban on exporting waste to China has highlighted just
how urgent this plastic crisis is - our recycling systems can't
keep up with the vast quantities of plastic that the UK is
producing every day.
Governments and corporations must take action to reduce the amount
of plastic that's being produced in the first place - and
supermarkets have a crucial role to play.
Please add your name and tell supermarkets to go plastic
free.
15th January 2018
1)
Apologies
Carolyn,
Chris
2) Matters
Arising
All issues
to be covered later on the agenda
3)
Sustainable Crediton Seedshare on Sat 24th
Feb
Discussion
of how this could be organised. Decided for some soup to be made at
home on 23rd and some to be made on 24th at Boniface Centre. Need
t ... 4th January 2018
England's South West coastline is the first port of call for
plastic litter washed up from the Atlantic Ocean by the gulf
stream, which may be one reason why some of its beaches are so
devastatingly polluted. Pellet sightings abound on both the South
and North coasts of Cornwall and Devon. A whopp ... |