The first two plant stands are out
Please feel free to start leaving your spare plants. Plants on the stand are free to be re-homed . Fruit, veg, garden or house plants welcome.
There is one on Sandy Lane and one at the allotments (just near the first gate leading from Townsend Road as you approach from the Swindon direction). There will also be one in the driveway to the Barrington Arms. Thank you to Rob for providing us with this space
If you have extra healthy plants please pop them on one of the stands.
Please label if you can to help people identify what they are
Please treat the stands with respect and take only what you need
Sandy Lane will soon also have a tub with seeds
The Seed Bombs, kindly made for us by the cubs, will also be in a box on the Barrington stand. Please take one and throw into a space in your garden where you would like to encourage wild flowers and attract bees. These will only be on offer while stocks last.
Enjoy!
ONLINE BLOG UPDATES
We have added to our series of Blogs. These include a monthly focus on recipe ideas and tips that might encourage you too to switch to a less meat based way of eating and find ways to reduce food waste and use seasonal ingredients.
We hope that some of you will try them out and share some feedback. You too might wish to share your favourite recipe based around the ingredient of the month.
Take a look at our most recent recipe here.
Also available are our monthly blogs on reducing plastic use as well as several others that you may find informative and useful.
Members
It was lovely to meet some new faces at our information stand on May 8th. Many thanks to the Gardening Club who gave us this opportunity to show our faces in the village as part of the plant sale.
Membership continues to grow steadily and we would love to have even more of you on-board as we have some very exciting plans in the pipeline. Please find out more and maybe sign up on our ‘become a member’ page.
We are also still looking to recruit committee members We would love to hear from you if you’re interested in joining us. We have a few committee roles we’d like to fill and we’d be happy to tell you more. If you think you might like to join us please email us at….
sustainableshrivenham@gmail.com
No experience necessary. Just a passion to make an impact. The more hands we have on deck, the more we can achieve!
Members talks
May 12th saw us hosting our second online talk with Question and answer session via the Zoom platform. It was open to all members and was enthusiastically attended. We were treated to a very interesting and informative talk and presentation given by Jessica Beare, from South Oxfordshire District Council
She covered why we recycle, current waste legislations, what goes into each bin, what happens to the contents of each bin and a bit on how COVID-19 has affected the waste industry as a whole. There was also a chance for members who attended t ask questions.
Although the best path is one of reducing use of single use items, it was interesting to learn more about where the waste ends up. We also discussed how using Terracycle opportunities to recycle specific items is still better than burning items, that can’t go in the green bin, to produce energy. We hope to get the Terracycle schemes up and running in the village but for now we are promoting Highworth Recycling Group. A list of what can be recycled through the scheme is included below. Please do get in touch if you need more information.
Upcoming planned future talks for members are….
May 24th 7:30 - 8:30pm
Zero Waste Gardening - Ben Raskin, Head of Horticulture at the Soil Association.
June 10th 7:30 - 8:30pm
Shampoo Bars - Rebecca Bennett the CEO of The Solid Soap Bar Company, who have created a luxury and convenient eco-friendly range of personal care products that help you make the switch away from plastic.
Talks are being recorded and will be available to members online for those who can’t attend the meetings.
To attend these talks you will need to be a Sustainable Shrivenham member. Find out more and join here.
Highworth Recycling Group
You can join the Facebook Group here or visit the Terracycle website to find out more about the process.
Here are a list of items for recycling collection.
Empty crisp packets, any brand. Small packs, share packs, multipack wrappers. NO origami triangles.
NO popcorn, peanuts or pretzels.
Plastic bread loaf bags, any brand. NO rolls, bagels, crumpets, just loaf bags.
Plastic ring carriers, such as you get on a 4 pack of beer cans. Any brand.
Kinder chocolate wrappers. Bar wrappers, kinder eggs yellow pods, foil outers, basically anything except for the plastic toy. NO other brand.
Toothcare items such as plastic toothbrushes, electric toothbrush heads, empty toothpaste tubes, all packaging. NO electric or bamboo toothbrushes.
Old eye glasses. Old bras, any condition.
Empty Pringles tubes. NO other brand.
Kids yoghurt pouches and baby food pouches with lids on. Any brand.
Cheese wrappers. Flexible kind only. Can be block cheese, individual cheese wrappers, net bags. NO sliced cheese flat trays but we can take the peel off lid.
Any brand. Empty make-up such as eyeshadow, compact, lipstick, lip balm, mascara.
Packs for beauty wipes. Flexible plastic tubes for body creams and moisturiser. NO shower products or baby wipe packs.
Ferrero Rocher packaging. Hard plastic boxes and inner trays. Cellophane and gold foil. Everything except the little brown paper cupcake style case. NO other brand.
Flexible dishwasher tablet packaging, flexible stain remover powder packaging, flexible cleaning product refill, flexible packets for home cleaning wipes, flexible dishwasher salt bags. Any brand. Baylis & Harding plastic caps, pumps from product bottles and flexible plastic lotion tubes and caps. NO plastic bottles and NO other brand.
Carex handwash refill pouches and caps. Carex, Imperial Leather and Bayleys of London hand wash pumps (not bottles).
Milk bottle tops of the green, red or blue variety. NO other plastic lids accepted.
