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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.
Print this pageJute Shopping Bags
Last updated 6 December 2008
Instead of using new plastic shopping bags every time you go shopping why not take your own jute bags - you can use them again and again and again! CAWAG have produced these jute shopping bags which are sold at £2 each, the money raised goes to the school's Eco Project. Only a few bags are left and these are available from Charlbury Primary School, News & Things, Good Food Shop and Five Ways (Londis). This CAWAG project was funded by Resource Futures who fund local Community Action Groups.
Now . . . and the Future? 
There is a different design on each side of the bag containing 60 faces of children in Years 5 & 6 at Charlbury Primary School in July 2007- the children drew the faces of their friends. The first side shows that the footprint of the world's population on the world is enormous - this includes pollution, use of resources, and climate change - it swamps the continents and even affects Antarctica. The second side shows that people have seen sense, they have reduced their impact on the world, the continents are visible again and the future is safe.
During the summer of 2008, shoppers using the bag were able to collect a 5p voucher when they spent more than £4 in Charlbury shops. The vouchers were redeemed for 5p at CAWAG's stall at Street Fair on 20 September 2008. People could then choose to donate the 5p to the School's Eco-Project. The serial numbers on the vouchers also went into a free prize draw at the Street Fair for prizes donated by the local shops. The 60 faces on the bags were printed on the vouchers and 4,020 vouchers were produced - that's 67 of each face.
CAWAG chose Canby to supply the bags. Canby is a local Oxford company who arrange for the bags to be made in India according to their own ethical trading policy. The bags were transported to the UK from India by sea - a trip lasting about two months but with a much smaller carbon footprint than the alternative of flying.
The bags are made of jute, besides being very hard wearing, jute also has very good environmental credentials. Jute doesn't need pesticides or fertilisers and grows in the monsoon so doesn't need any irrigation, it is naturally a very organic crop. Compare this with cotton which is much more intensively grown - one third of the world's fertilisers and pesticides are used for growing cotton.
The bags are lined with a very thin layer of plastic - this makes the jute more rigid and also enables the inside to be wiped clean. When the bag eventually wears out after several years, this plastic layer can be easily removed for recycling and the jute can be composted.
Plastic bags damage the environment. Some 13 billion plastic bags are given free to UK shoppers every year and they take about 1,000 years to decay.
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