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Charlbury's waste collections will be changing this autumn and new containers for food waste and green waste will be provided by WODC.
Location of new local centre not yet confirmed, but possibly Enstone. Read fuller report in Oxford Times.
Everyone's booking their summer break this month. Avoid airport misery with a climate-friendly getaway. Plan your overground trip with Loco2. Win a 10:10 holiday.
The 10:10 Campaign say Spring has sprung, and it's the perfect time to get outside and try growing your own fruit and veg
The new film Dirty Oil is being shown at the Phoenix, Oxford on this single occasion. Tickets are booked FREE if you are a Co-op member.
The 10:10 Campaign brings you an excellent guide to help you through the range of options for insulating your home to reduce your energy consumption.
Food Inc is a new film about the food industry is being launched in February 2010 and there is a single showing at the Vue cinema in Oxford at 6.30pm on Monday 15 February
Greenpeace UK are calling for ingenious ideas about what to do with the Airplot site at Heathrow
The 10:10 Campaign brings you an excellent interactive guide to help you decide which light bulbs to buy to reduce your energy consumption.
Apple, Sony Ericsson and Nokia do well in Greenpeace's updated Guide to Greener Electronics, while Samsung, Dell, Lenovo and LGE disappoint.
Catch up with Franny Armstrong (Director of Age of Stupid) and Mark Lynas (author of Six Degrees) who are hosting The Stupid Show at 7pm each day from Friday 11th to Saturday 19th December - if you miss it live you can watch it again until the next edition.
This morning 56 newspapers in 45 countries took the unprecedented step of speaking with one voice through a common editorial. They decided to do so because humanity faces a profound emergency.
BBC Click programme reporting on the new generation of portable solar chargers that will be suitable for laptops and other gadgets.
Recycling and kitchen waste weekly. Garden waste fortnightly. Residual waste fortnightly.
Watch this film on the Channel 4 website about the devastating event of overfishing.
Decision hailed by groups who staged Climate Camp protest. Lower electricity demands due to recession cited as reason.
Composting is not just for gardeners - it helps the environment too
Home compost bins now available from £18.50
Now from 2009 onwards, you can put your old Yellow Pages into the black box for recycling - previously these had to be collected separately in a special skip at the Spendlove.
The chief executive of the Committee on Climate Change (CCC) has said that the aviation industry is not "off the hook" when it comes to reducing CO2 levels.
10:10 is an ambitious project to unite every sector of British society behind one simple idea: that by working together we can achieve a 10% cut in the UK’s carbon emissions in 2010.
CAWAG has signed up as
The Bell Hotel has been awarded a bronze award from the Green Business Tourism Scheme for its green tourism policy.
Kimberly-Clark has, as a result of public pressure, released a new environmental fibre policy that governs how it will help conserve forests and support sustainable forestry and use more recycled fibre. . . . . .
Charlbury's Bring & Share Picnic was part of the nationwide Big Lunch idea from the Eden Project.
Listen to Richard Curtis interviewed on Radio 4's Today programme recommending Obama should watch The Age of Stupid while he is over here.
The Good Food Shop in Charlbury now takes Brita water filters for recycling. Previously the nearest place for recycling water filters was Cargo at Witney.
Video clip of Prince Charles. "If we can redouble our efforts to unite the world in meeting pehaps its greatest and most crucial challenge, then we may yet be able to prevail and thereby be able to avoid bequeathing a poisoned chalice to our children and grandchildren, but we only have 100 months to act".
The scheme costs £51 per bin for 17 months. This fee includes one wheeled bin and collections from outside your home every two weeks, making it easier and less time-consuming for you to dispose of your garden waste in an environmentally-friendly manner. Collections will take place from 11 May 2009 until 24 September 2010. All garden waste is taken to a local commercial composting facility.
Short of New Year Resolutions? Here are over a 100 ideas to reduce your carbon footprint.
Watch the Friends of the Earth video. Be irritated by Matt on Grist TV's short film. Comment on the 350 wordless animation. With your help, we'll make YouTube all about climate change, even if just for one day. Please watch, comment, and pass them on.
If you live in Milton-u-W, Shipton-u-W, or Ascot-u-W, then look at www.swych.org.uk to find out all the events planned.
In June 2008, CAWAG launched Charlbury Sharecroppers to help put people in touch with each other so that locally grown food does not go to waste and so that as many local people as possible can be involved with growing, picking and eating fresh, healthy food.
Think twice before using plastic bags for shopping - use a jute shopping bag showing the faces of 60 Charlbury children.
The first Saturday morning of each month, CAWAG have a collection bag for Tetra Paks alongside the recycling bins at the same time as the green waste collection at the Spendlove car park from 10am-12 noon.
Take your household batteries (including dead rechargeable batteries) to any of the special battery collection boxes now available at the Post Office, the Corner House, and the Primary School.
Have you ever considered having a wormery to rapidly compost your kitchen waste instead of sending it to landfill?
Please phone Louise Spicer on 01608-810745 to arrange to borrow the low-energy lightbulb library for a couple of nights or arrange a home visit - Louise can help you go through the bulbs to find the best choices.
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Easter eggs
• Buy Easter eggs with the least packaging.
• Compost cardboard packaging and put plastic, and aluminium foil in your black box.
Egg boxes
• Buy cardboard egg boxes.
• Ask your local egg producer or distributor if they can re-use your old egg boxes - many do.
• Use for sprouting seeds (perfect for mustard & cress).
• Put cardboard egg boxes in compost.
• Put plastic egg boxes in your black box.
Eggshells
• Crunch up and put in compost - they won't decompose but will provide useful minerals.
• Wash & dry or bake in oven, then grind them up and put around plants to deter slugs & snails.
• Mix cooked eggshells with poultry feed to boost chickens' calcium levels.
Electrical equipment
• You can now dispose of your unwanted electrical equipment in a more environmentally friendly way thanks to a new Government directive called WEEE (Waste Electrical & Electronic Equipment regulations).It will reduce the amount of electrical and electronic goods going to landfill. Anything from old toasters and stereos through to washing machines can be taken to your nearest designated WEEE site - which is the Waste Recycling Centre at Dean. Here they will be reclaimed for refurbishment or recycling.The service is FREE for the consumer, however the producer of the equipment will be responsible for financing the collection, treatment, and recovery of waste electrical equipment.
• For unwanted items in good working order see if someone else could use them in your community. If not try various Oxfordshire virtual swap-shop websites at Oxford Freecycle, Witney Freecycle, or Chipping Norton Freecycle.
• We cannot take electrical items at Bring & Takes, so please do not bring them along.
• If items are in working order then phone OCVA on 01865-763698 (Oxfordshire Community and Voluntary Action, Westlands Drive, Headington, Oxford).
• Take items to Bannor Electrical, 5 West Street, Chipping Norton who will test them, repair if appropriate, and sell them on with proceeds going to charity.
• If items are beyond repair then West Oxfordshire District Council can arrange collection, phone 01993-861020. In May 2008, the charge was £7.20 for up to 4 items.
• See Cookers
• See Computers
Envelopes
• Envelope reuse labels - stick label onto used envelopes to cover original address and post mark (order labels from Friends of the Earth 020 7490 1555).
• Compost envelopes (remove plastic window from window envelopes).
• Put in your black box - there is NO NEED to remove the plastic window from window envelopes first.
• See Junk mail.
Electricity
• Southern Electric (0845 744 4555) have an RSPB Tariff, which allows you to support the supply of your electricity from renewable resources such as wind, solar and hydro-electric power. This helps to conserve precious reserves of fossil fuels and reduces pollution (call 0800 0288552 for further information).
• Southern Energy efficiency line 0845 7776633 - useful information line to help increase the energy efficiency of your home.
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Fabric
• See Textiles.
Faxes
• To stop unwanted faxes see Junk mail.
Finstock news
• Look out for information on upcoming collection events and general information. See also www.finstock.org.uk.
Firewood
• Wood from shrubs and trees can be stored for you or a friend for firewood and kindling (store for 1 year in dry place before using).
• Use wood for BBQs.
• Build log piles behind shrubs to provide shelter and attract insects for hedgehogs, voles, slow worms, shrews, and frogs.
Flowerpots
• Pots reuse - set up a local flowerpots reuse scheme (everyone rinses their pots, takes them to a 'pick up point' where locals can use them for free).
Fluorescent tubes
• See Light bulbs.
Fly-tipping
• Report fly-tipping to West Oxfordshire District Council by calling 01993 861020 or complete an online Fly-Tipping Report form.
• If you witness a fly-tipping offence and are willing to provide evidence, contact 01865 815863 to speak to the Fly-Tipping Officer at Oxfordshire County Council.
• If you have a contractor taking any waste from your property ask to see their Waste Carrier registration number and make a note of it. Call the Environment Agency and speak to Andy Turton on 01491 828519.
Food waste
• Plan your shopping so you don't have loads of food going off in the fridge (buy things that go off easily - fruit, bread, eggs, milk - in smaller quantities).
• See Compost.
Fridges & freezers
• Fridges in good condition - Cookers & Co (01993- 823426) refurbishes fridges and cookers for re-use.
• Contact West Oxfordshire District Council (01993-861020) or complete an online Bulky Waste Collection form to arrange collection of fridges and freezers for a charge of £7.20 for up to 4 items (not applicable for trade or businesses).
• See Electrical Equipment.
Furniture
• Save small good quality furniture for a Charlbury "Bring and Take". These are held in the Memorial Hall on the second Saturday morning in both March and October. Items can be brought along between 9.30am until 11am and taken between 10am and 12 noon. You could also advertise larger items on the notice board in the hall during the event.
• Donate to the OCVA Furniture Store in Oxford (call to arrange collection/delivery) 01865 763698 or email furniture@ocva.org.uk.
• If you live near Banbury, donate furniture to Banbury Council for Voluntary Service (call to arrange collection/delivery), North Bar Place, Banbury, OX16 0TD (01295 267741).
• Contact West Oxfordshire District Council (01993-861020) or complete an online Bulky Waste Collection form to arrange collection of beds and other bulky furniture for a charge of £7.20 for up to 4 items.