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
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
Sholing Valley’s Spring Fayre 2018 19th May
Tools And Tips For Reducing Plastic 24th May
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
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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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.
Contact us via our website:
Look us up on Facebook or drop us an email:
vicky@crowdleaf.org.uk
ryan@crowdleaf.org.uk
On behalf of CrowdLeaf,
Vicky & Ryan
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Pollution Tracking Tools
London Air Pollution Live Data
See you next time!