A place for like-minded people wanting to reduce their waste. Particular focus on Sedbergh and nearby.
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Shout out to @SedberghSchool students Aylish and Ruby who work with us each week to sort and tidy the stock in the Community Cupboard, and make sure the food parcels reach our most vulnerable families. Thank you 🙏 👏❤️
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We're sharing our "12 Greener Tips of Christmas" to help lighten the load on your grey bin this festive season. Look out for a different tip each day for the first 12 days of December.
TIP #5 - An estimated 40 million Christmas crackers end up in the bin on 25 December...
ALT Christmas crackers.
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SLDC's "12 Greener Tips of Christmas" 🎄
TIP #4 - Lots of snack packaging can’t be recycled as the mixed materials such as cardboard, metal and plastic (eg crisp tubes) can’t be separated. Look out for nibbles in recyclable boxes or bags...
ALT Olives, nuts and breadsticks.
Zero Waste Sedbergh retweeted
SLDC's "12 Greener Tips of Christmas" 🎄
TIP #4 continued... Crisp packets are not made of foil so cannot be recycled. Big plastic chocolate tubs are best taken to your nearest HWRC as they take up so much space in blue bags and the recycling wagon.
ALT A packet of crisps.
Zero Waste Sedbergh retweeted
SLDC's "12 Greener Tips of Christmas" 🎄
TIP #3 - Christmas cards with glitter or batteries cannot be recycled. Sending an e-card or photo from your phone helps cut down on wasted paper and postage costs, while the cards you receive can be upcycled into gift tags for next year.
ALT A mobile phone with a Christmas picture on it.
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We're sharing our "12 Greener Tips of Christmas" to help lighten the load on your grey bin this festive season. Look out for a different tip each day for the first 12 days of December.
TIP #2 - home-made cakes, jams and chutneys make thoughtful gifts...
ALT A person in the kitchen baking mince pies.
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Tip #1 - a fake Christmas tree can be brought out year after year but has to be used for 10/20 years to be more eco-friendly than a real one. Consider buying a fir or spruce with roots for re-planting, or collect fallen branches and display in a vase with decorations...
ALT A person carrying a Christmas tree in a snowy street.
You can now recycle household batteries on a Thursday at Cornerstone community church Sedbergh on New street between 2pm and 5pm
Dear Food Clubber,
This Thursday is our Community Lunch. Lunch will be served between 12pm and 2pm at Cornerstone Church on New Street. Our community Lunch is free of charge, open to everyone and will use items from our Fareshare delivery.
Food club will run as normal.
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🎉 We’ve been shortlisted in the Environmental Leadership category at the @foodanddrinkfed #FDFAwards for our groundbreaking #SurplusWithPurpose scheme, which helps food businesses overcome costs to getting their good unsold food to charities.
Read more bit.ly/3PwruKV
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We're hugely grateful to all the FareShare staff and volunteers at our Regional Centres across the UK for their care and dedication throughout this week's #heatwave.
Thank you for making it possible for us to continue safely delivering good food to vulnerable communities 💚
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How much food are you throwing away? The average UK family wastes eight meals every single week. Save around £700 a year:
✅ plan your meals
✅ check cupboards
✅ writing a shopping list
✅ don't buy what you don't need
✅ use up leftovers.
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1. Don't produce it in the first place 2. Re-use it 3. Recycle it. You can find some good examples in our blog and report here greenpeace.org.uk/news/how-s… and check out local zero waste shops to see it in action 😊
BBC News - M&S scraps 'best before' dates on fruit and veg to cut food waste
bbc.co.uk/news/business-6219…
Every year, the average person in the UK throws away 409kg of stuff - weighing the same as three adult pandas. Zero waste living could help you cut your contribution down bigissue.com/news/environmen…
