Welcome to this weeks edition of Crowdleaf’s newsletter.
We hope you are all still enjoying this lovely weather!
With the world cup well under way, it is heart warming to see fans taking care of their environment and picking up their rubbish after the game is over. This is a fine example of how we should take pride in our home on earth – not just after a great match but for all of our surroundings.
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New Zealand The Most Perilous Place For Seabirds Due To Plastic Pollution
Researchers Race To Make Bioplastics From Straw And Food Waste
Plastic Plates And Cutlery To Be Banned From Sale Under government Plans
100 Steps To A Plastic Free Life
Seattle Just Became The First Major American City To Ban Plastic Straws And Utensils
Weather watch: Wildfires Highlight Importance Of UK’s Peatlands
Child’s Asthma Linked To Illegal Levels Of Air Pollution
Court Action To Save Young From Climate Bill
Millions of Wet Wipes Flushed Into The Thames Causing Plastic Nightmare
UK Heatwave Helps Solar Power To Record Weekly Highs
Queensland Coal Push Grows As Turnbull Tries To Land Energy Guarantee
Dry Weather Boost UK’s Most Endangered Butterfly
Australia Needs Tighter Ivory Sale Laws Sale To Protect Elephants, Parliamentary Committee Hears
Is This The End Of The Yellow All-In-One Recycling Bin?
Local Authorities Urged to Embrace Separate Collection Model
What Does Sustainability Really Mean To The Customer?
This Toilet Provides Safe Sanitation Without Plumbing Or Electricity
Hampshire Farmers Market Oxford Street 7th July
Portsmouth Green Drinks ‘On Tour’ Artist Special, Part 1 11th July
Fight For Clean Air In Southampton And New Forest 17th July
South sea Wildlife Watch 21st July
Check Out Eco Collective who offer 100% vegan products and offer gluten free and organic produce.
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
This brilliant website gives tips and ideas about food waste and how to reduce it.
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.’
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London Air Pollution Live Data
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This is a guest piece by an active campaigner on plastic pollution and one who is pushing, as we are, for action from above.
The person behind the petition that asks for the CEO’s of all major UK super markets to drop or change the use of plastic for food wrapping, to no wrapping where it not needed, compostable if it is possible and as minimum recyclable. CrowdLeaf.org.uk are fully behind this and we offer a range of green and environmentally responsible products in the CrowdLeaf Store.
The petition can be found at : https://www.change.org/p/stop-supermarkets-using-unrecyclable-food-packaging
My name is Simon Goldsmith, I started a petition to ‘Stop Supermarkets using non-recyclable food Packaging’ because l got so annoyed when trying to recycle and reading on most of the plastic packaging ‘This plastic is not currently recycled’.
This made me think how much of our supermarket food packing is not currently recyclable. I found a large majority of it is the fruit and veg and to be honest 90% of this does not need any sort of packaging.
This made us change the way we shop, to finding a farm shop and buying all our fruit and veg from there. I appreciate this is not achievable for everyone, as some farm shops can be considerably more expensive and not convenient.
The final push for me was on our family holiday to Porthtowan in Cornwall. We were shocked by the micro-plastics on the beach.
As a consumer, we can’t choose how our food is packaged, the Supermarkets have an environmental obligation to make the packaging environmentally friendly. A consumer needs to be able to trust and respect the corporation they are buying from.
I understand the Supermarkets don’t package the food themselves but they have the power to make the producers comply.
Hopefully my petition will raise awareness and put pressure on the Supermarkets to change.
The more single-use plastic that is produced means it will eventually end up in landfills in developed countries and rivers and oceans in developing countries, then getting moved around the world’s oceans.
I believe the plastic problem needs to be tackled at both ends, one to reduce the amount of plastic being produced and two to clean up the current plastic in circulation in the oceans.
Currently in the UK there is no service industry cleaning our beaches, only volunteer organisations like Surfers Against Sewage.
I would like to setup a service industry which cleans our beaches in the UK and provides a use for the plastics. The only way the plastics are removed from the ocean is if the beaches are cleaned on a regular basis, currently the plastics get washed up and then moved again by the tides.
This is a serious problem as the fish are eating the plastics and we are eating the fish, the whole food chain is being affected. The effect the plastics are having on the wildlife is detrimental, and this is only getting worse.
I would like to be able to do more and the petition is just a starting point.
CrowdLeaf is a proud sponsor for Thursday the 24th of November’s Crowdfunding: Deep Impact Conference.
@rwscarter did an interview with Barry James the brain child and man in charge for the conference. Barry is CEO of the Crowdfunding Center and Secretary of the All Party Parliamentary Group on Crowdfunding among many other positions, ventures and successes. This week Barry found time to talk about how crowdfunding can help the green, sustainability and conservation community and much more. Listen below as we discuss the speakers, the concepts, the change that Acts of Parliment such as the Social Value Act can and will make a difference to the causes we care about.
Here’s a list of some of the fantastic sponsors for the event. Click on the video or the link to see/ hear about the speakers and schedule for the day.
