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Green Expo is now in its second year and Sustainable Cheshire (an Eco Communities project) have embedded the stalls part of the Exposition into our annual events programme. The Expo is a mix of stalls along the River Dee and separate Youth Conference. It is taking place over 3 days from Thursday 15th June to Saturday 17th JuneContinue reading “GREEN EXPO 2023: The Green Heart of England”

Angharad Armson, Media Manager It’s World Bee Day again where we celebrate the Bees and what they do for us. Bees and many other insects play a vital role in pollinating plants allowing them to reproduce and to produce seeds that will go on to set up the next generation of plants. It is thisContinue reading “World Bee Day – A view from our own bee keeper”

Helen Tandy, Founding Director, Eco Communities This has been 4 years in the planning. It’s involved talking to other schemes, looking for the right funding and cups! So it has taken is some time… Then with rising prices since the project was costed for Spacehive, and problems with getting items from the EU we hadContinue reading “Cheshire Cup Club Launches (at last)”

In 2019 Cheshire West and Chester Council declared a climate emergency to focus on climate change as an organisational priority. Climate Emergency UK, a grant funded organisation, was set up to maintain a data base of councils which have and haven’t declared an emergency and a scoring system. As well as the council database of thoseContinue reading “How does Cheshire West score on its Climate Emergency achievements?”

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Helen Tandy, Director, Eco Communities Green Expo is now in its second year and Sustainable Cheshire (an Eco Communities project) have embedded the Exposition (stalls part) into our annual events programme. The Expo is a mix of stalls along the River Dee and separate Youth Conference. It is taking place over 3 days from ThursdayContinue reading “Green Expo 2023 is coming soon…. 4 weeks and counting….”

Angharad, Eco Communities As I live in the area, the Neston Earth Festival is close to my heart and I had a fantastic Sunday afternoon meeting lots of Neston residents who came out to talk with Helen T and I about Plastic Free Neston, a project we started only in January 2023.  While we wereContinue reading “What a weekend!”

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By Lizzy, Chester Sling Library Did you know that every year 3 billion disposable nappies are thrown away in the UK? That’s an awful lot of single-use plastic ending up in landfill after just a few hours use. Reusable nappies (also known as cloth nappies or real nappies) are a fantastic alternative and modern typesContinue reading “Reusable Nappy Week 2023”

In 2019 10.8 million people took away a coffee from a coffee shop in the UK. We can’t keep creating this single use cup waste. Switching to a returnable cup eliminates billions of cups from landfill. We think Cheshire needs and deserves a reuse system that works. A returnable is an item of food orContinue reading “Reusable Returnable Coffee Cup Scheme”