Our Facebook Group is now live – please join us!

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That’s right – Sylvia now has her own profile on Facebook and we’d love you to become one of her Facebook friends!

We’ve also set up a group on there call ‘The Recycle Works’ so that we can create our own online Facebook community and share the quest to get everyone to ‘Love Your Environment!’

If you are already a member, please do visit us, the profile is under Sylvia Hopwood and we’ll be getting lots and lots of photos and video uploaded for you!!

Let’s see if we can get 100 friends to begin with and see if we can make Sylvia feel really loved!

Debbie x

Plastic Milk Bottles – Another Recycling Step!

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The EM Cleaner is still being used with vigour for all our cleaning tasks but the last time I saw SYlvia, we were talking about the amount of plastic that is being wasted in the world and I suddenly thought that I’m part of theat problem as I always get milk in plastic containers!

So, I’ve made another little step forward I hope as I’ve caught the milk person who visits our village and asked them to deliver our milk in glass bottle form only. I’ll wash them out once used and put them out to be collected instead of doing what I normally do and putting the empty plastic containers in the bin. I’m not sure exactly whata differnece in real terms that will be but surely eliminating 4 or 5 two litre containers each week per year will play its part. Imagine the difference if we all did it?

So have a think about the amount of milk in your home…… could you recycle?

Debbie x

Plastic Bags – Reducing Your Usage…

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Here’s a good one from Rita at Friends of the Earth:

Billions of plastic carrier bags are handed out in the UK each year, and it’s easy to find yourself down the shops without any other way of getting your groceries home so be prepared! Keep your stash of plastic bags by the door so you remember to take a couple when you pop out!

Pedigree Cats Wholeheartedly Approve of EM Probiotic Cleaner!

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Happy Cats!

We received this via an email from one of our customers and thought it created a lovely picture of some very happy cats!

“I have several pedigree cats who sleep in a cathouse in the garden.  About a year ago I fell and broke my wrist & twisted my back.  I’d always cleaned the cathouse daily but now it was a real problem that I couldn’t manage & my husband neither had time for or relished doing. However EMC probiotic cleaner used after “tidying up” to mop floor & to spray clean litter trays instantly freshens the space and  I feel has made it healthier for the cats. It’s been a real “find” and has made an unpleasant task much easier to achieve!

Moira williams

Compost Bin Build Competition

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Compost bin assembly competion at Ashperton School fete

Well, we held our school fete on Saturday 21st June …the sky was very gloomy looking all afternoon and we had the odd spot of rain BUT it did NOT dampen our spirits AT ALL!

I am a Master Composter ( a community compost adviser) with Herefordshire Council/HDRA, as well as a parent of a child at the school, so I was there with my stall promoting the wonders of composting and the compost bin competition tied in really well!

The “Build a Bin”  competition attracted a fair bit of interest and made lots of money to add to our final total of around £2000 – the bin had kindly been donated by The Recycle Works.

The “Build a Bin” times ranged from just over a minute to just under 3 ….(we are all really good at composting here! )

The winner was Tim Finch …with an amazingly quick time of 1 min 16 secs..Tim took his bin home at the end of the day, very happy with it.

Tim  was very closely followed by Ian Blenkinsop (with help from Ellen) who were only 2 seconds slower…but then, they do get a LOT of compost practice at home!

The fastest solo child was Ellie Butcher who did it in a time of 1 min 41 seconds…a VERY good time indeed and one which was faster than many adults. She won a prize of a book about composting.

Everybody who entered  the “Build a Bin” competition also got a packet of sunflower seeds and a recycled newsprint pencil.

THANK you again  Sylvia for donating the bin, it was a really fun way of raising money!

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