Hello, I am an Education Officer for the Zero Waste Town Project. I can trace back why I am in the job I am today to a teacher and an astronaut and sadly I do not remember either of their names but their impact has inspired the course of my life. When I was 12/13 …
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Are you up for taking the Zero Waste Challenge? We are looking for families living in the Dunbar District who are keen to give it a go and to write a regular blog about your experience. Let us know here or by private message or by email: susancarleton@sustainingdunbar.org
The Zero Waste Town Project would like to organise a series of workshops which will help the community reuse, recycle and refurbish/up-cycle or mend items which would go otherwise to landfill and would like to put a call out to members of the community locally or local businesses who feel they could lead a workshop …
This Summer the Zero Waste Town Project team has been out and about with our portable recycle bins to events and places in our Ward area. Whilst diverting rubbish to landfill by recycling we have also worked with all ages to raise awareness about recycling and started to ask the community to map where they think permanent recycle …
Did you know that the average cost of keeping a baby in disposable nappies for 2-3 years is £1,200 per baby. Every day in the UK a staggering eight million disposable nappies are thrown away, inevitably ending up in landfill, where it is estimated they will take up to 500 years to break down. Find …
It’s recycle week this week and are out with our ‘Recycling on the Go’ bins to local schools to help them to sort, and if possible recycle, their waste in the playground. Here we are at West Barns Primary at their assembly letting the children know all about recycle week to help support …
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We are good to go! See you at most local events through the next few months 🙂 We are working with local event organisers to get an understanding of what sorts of waste their events generate and together find solutions to reduce, reuse and recycle this waste. If you have an event coming up let …
Recycling Upstairs and Down is the chosen theme of Scotland’s Recycle Week 22 – 28 June 2015 – encouraging us to look past the kitchen when recycling around the home. Studies show that we are great at recycling stuff in the kitchen, but when it comes to the rest of the house, we often forget …
We are working with East Lothian Council to find ways to divert local waste away from landfill. How many times have you looked in the skip at our local recycling Centre and throught… that’s a perfectly good table…I could fix that up… but you can’t get access to the table cause regulations don’t allow it. …