Hi and welcome to another CrowdLeaf newsletter 🙂

Are you local and have an environmentally friendly product you would like to sell? We are looking for local providers to link up with our store so if you are interested please email us.

Some pretty interesting articles in the news recently and we are please to see some of the big supermarkets pledge to make a change  to their packaging to cut plastic waste. Let’s hope this change is made sooner rather then later for the sake of our environment!

Again, there are some great events going on this month so please check them out and get involved.

The War On Plastic

Jaqueline Wilson Calls For Books Industry Plastic Ban

‘Infinitely’ Recyclable Plastic Created By Chemists For the First Time

Morrison Pledge To Make All It’s Packaging Recyclable By 2025

UK Supermarkets Launch Voluntary Pledge To Cut Plastic Packaging

Climate Change and Pollution

UK’s Most Polluted Towns And Cities Revealed

A general view of the steelworks in Port Talbot

Climate ‘Culture War’ Will Doom Australia To Fail Emissions Targets, Labor Says

Terra watch: Rocks Could Have A Role In Combating Climate Change

More Than 90% Of Air Pollution Deaths Occur In Poorer Countries

Penny Wong Says Labour Will Try And Undo Abbot’s Legacy On Climate Policy

Air Pollution Is Causing Crime In London, Claim LSE Scientists

Energy

BP Profits Leap By 71% As Oil Prices Rebound

Growth In Independent Renewables Energy Projects Slumps As Government Support Falls

EDF Plans For Tallest UK Onshore Wind Turbines Prompts Outcry

Wildlife and Conservation

Budget Earmarks $500m To Mitigate Great Barier Reef Climate Change

EU Member States Support Near-Total Neonicotinoids Ban

Hedgehog Sightings Fall For Third Consecutive Years, Survey Reveals

Dutch Rewinding Experiment Sparks Backlash As Thousands Of Animals Starve

Health Warning As Toxic Hairy Caterpillars Take Over Woodlands

Recycling and Sustainability

H&M Launches Conscious Exclusive 2018 Collection

Storage And Organisation Ideas For Recycling Centers

South Kesteven Food Waste Recycling Scheme To Be Trialled

Events

Oxford Street Hampshire Farmers Markets 5th May

Where Should We Get Our Energy From? 5th May

Portsmouth Green Drinks 9th May

Swanage Pier Dive And Litter Pick 12th May

Southdowns Green Fair 13th may

Big Green Wheels 18th May

Repair Cafe 19th May

Sholing Valley’s Spring Fayre 2018 19th May

Tools And Tips For Reducing Plastic 24th May

Environmental Rock 28th May

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Handy Websites

Something we look to help businesses do in the future. If you are a business that is in the waste(not) business please get in touch –Mixed Plastic Banks In Southampton

Here is Southampton’s list on what to put into your blue lid recycling bin: What Can I Recycle?

Pledge Your Commitment To Improving Hampshires Recycling Habits

Hampshire Recycling

This brilliant website gives tips and ideas about food waste and how to reduce it.

Love Food Hate Waste

Instead of throwing out or bagging up (to gather dust) all those clothes children quickly grow out of this is a brilliant website to buy or sell unwanted children clothes. It is run by a busy mum who also knows what it’s like with ever growing children and the endless amount of clothes children accumulate.

‘Last year a quarter of the clothing we got rid of was simply thrown away. That’s a staggering 300,000 tonnes that went into landfill. So many of those items could have been re-used and enjoyed by a another child, instead of contributing to the destruction of the planet.’

Loopster

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We would also like to start adding a directory to our newsletter, making it more accessible for everyone to gain information, join other environmental groups or eco-friendly businesses that sell eco-friendly products. If you or someone you know are interested, please contact us. We can also help advertise and advise on any campaigns and fundraising events, with the option to advertise on our webpage, facebook and newsletters.

Equally if you have an article or blog which is relevant to the local or global cause of making the world cleaner and greener or feel there is an issue that could be part of a discussion, then feel free to send it over and we can publish it.

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https://crowdleaf.org.uk/

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vicky@crowdleaf.org.uk

ryan@crowdleaf.org.uk

On behalf of CrowdLeaf,

Vicky & Ryan

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