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Why should you recycle your food waste?
The Gloucestershire Recycles team have been running a food waste campaign, encouraging residents to reduce the amount of food waste they produce, and to recycle what they can't save.
Why does it matter?
9.5 million tonnes of food is wasted in the UK each year, emitting the equivalent of 10 million cars in greenhouse gases (or 1 in 3 cars on UK roads).
70% of this food waste happens in people’s homes, meaning we can make real change and do our bit to help the environment.
Check out our brand new short animated video 📽 which explains why it's important to use your food waste recycling service, and what happens to it! 🥦
Discounted compost bins💰
Summer is the perfect time to get started with home composting and we have a discount available to make it even more accessible. All compost bins available at Getcomposting.com are reduced by £15 to help you get started.
This discount is limited to one per household and is for Gloucestershire residents only.
Have you visited the Heritage Hub garden? 🥕
Project Grow are teaming up with Wiggly Charity and the Gloucestershire Heritage Hub taking over the Hub's existing community garden.
June update 👉The harvests keep on coming and we are now in a rhythm harvesting every Tuesday for Wiggly. The spring vegetables are still coming with us succession sowing every two weeks for lettuces, salads, rocket and radishes and monthly planting of carrots and potatos. Our summer and some autumn plants have also been planted out now the soil is warmer including tomatos, cucumbers, leeks, parsnips and cabbages.
Check out their upcoming events and activities too! 🌷
Bisley Bioblitz! 🐝
Put your ID skills to the test, learn from experts and come together with your local community to take action for nature!
Join Bisley-with-Lypiatt Parish Council and Gloucestershire Wildlife Trust for a day of identifying and recording as many species as possible to kick off National Allotments Week. The data collected will then feed into the Local Nature Action Plan!
👉Chestergate Allotments & Community Orchard
👉Saturday 10 August 2024
👉Activities throughout the day, from 8:30am to 8:30pm
See the full schedule of events and extra information.
Looking for a new job?
Cheltenham Borough Council are looking for a new Retrofit Engagement Officer.
This is a fixed term position for a period of 12 months and is a new and exciting role that supports our growing climate team.
You will devise and deliver an innovative new engagement programme to stimulate uptake of energy retrofit projects amongst householders across the Borough. Helping us to bring down emissions.
Find out more and apply.
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