Recycling
How Schools Can Benefit from Climate Ambassadors
Turning Ambition into Action. Climate change is no longer just a topic for lessons — it’s a reality schools must prepare for. The Climate Ambassadors programme connects nurseries, schools, and colleges with expert volunteers who help create practical climate action plans. Backed by the Department for Education’s sustainability strategy, it supports schools in meeting the…
Read MoreLady Hastings Primary School achieves EcoSchools Green Flag Award
Just 18 months after expressing their interest in progressing with the award scheme, with the support of the Boston Spa, Wetherby and Villages Community Green Group, the school have successfully gained the coveted accreditation. Katie Barnett, Headteacher says “I am really proud of the Eco Council, children, staff and Boston Green group who have worked…
Read MoreWow, we did it! The start of our Plastic Free Community journey
Thank you to all the stalls who switched to plant-based packaging (made from sustainable, renewable resources) for the Boston Spa Festival, Party in the Park. Along with food waste, it’ll be turned into compost locally. Read more here about ‘closing the loop’ on our waste. Thank you to everyone else for engaging with the idea…
Read MoreThe Crown and Pudding Lab – Boston Spa awarded first 5 stars for Sustainable Local Business Award
Co-founder, Penny Stables, says “I am delighted to be able to recognise these local businesses as striving to protect their local environment and help mitigate the impact on climate change. It’s great to see that these businesses now offer free water refills, don’t use polystyrene and many other oil-based single-use plastics, and are actively engaged…
Read MoreClose the Loop on Waste & Become Plastic Free
As we hear more and more about climate change, we are asking local businesses in Wetherby, Boston Spa & Villages to make a voluntary pledge to sign up to our Sustainable Local Business Award Programme, as part of our collective journey to attain Plastic Free Community status: 1 star for joining the Refill scheme or…
Read MoreYorkshire Building Society, Wetherby now collecting for Terracycle
Now that COVID lockdowns have been somewhat loosened, Yorkshire Building Society, Wetherby are now offering to collect the following items for the Terracycle scheme, helping to ‘recycle the non-recyclable’; empty crisp packets (min 30, flattened), used pens and markers, used toothpaste tubes and toothbrushes. empty, clean and dry coffee pods (see notes below) So far…
Read MoreEarth Day 22 April
EARTH DAY 2021 is today. It happens every year on April 22nd. Since its inception in 1970, Earth Day continues to grow as a global event to demonstrate support for environmental protection and to highlight the urgent actions we need to take to save our planet. The theme for 2021 is ‘Restore Our Earth’ and…
Read MoreA net-zero carbon roadmap for Leeds & how we can help
Like and share on Facebook The first version of the Leeds Net-Zero Carbon Roadmap was published by the Leeds Climate Commission in the spring of 2019. A lot has happened and so much has changed in the short period of time since the first version of the roadmap was published that a new version is…
Read MoreCompetition: design a bin, win £100, close the loop!
We are all aware of the waste that we create. Yes, we all recycle as much as we can, we fill our streetside litter bins, we even try and use reusable cups too. But takeaway cups are becoming a blight to our local community, streets, woodland, fields and rivers. So, if we want to keep…
Read MoreYeadons Hardware, Boston Spa now collecting & recycling more!
Despite COVID we’ve already managed to recycle over 15kgs of crisp packets since we launched in February, thank you. Yeadons have now offered to collect a broader range of items for the Terracycle scheme, these will now include; NEW (Sept20) all brands of empty, clean & dry baby food pouches, all brands of baby food…
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