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Got a litter issue in your area? 😵 We've got solutions for that ✅ Today we launch our new Neat Streets toolkit, thanks to funding from McDonald's. It’s been designed for local authorities and community groups who work tirelessly to keep our neighbourhoods clean – we like to think of them as ‘bin-thusiasts’. Building on our previous #InTheLoop toolkit for recycling on-the-go, the new site brings together all the best bits from 10 years of experimenting to tackle litter. Grab your (bin)oculars and load up www.neatstreets.org.uk to find: - Free, downloadable campaigns targeted towards specific issues including roadside litter, cigarette butt litter and our #InTheLoop recycling on-the-go campaign. - Advice on how to get the most bang from your bin, and campaign resources, with step-by-step guidance on running a litter campaign. - A collection of over 15 case studies to provide actionable tips and inspire your own campaigns. And that's not all, we have a new grant fund offering £10,000 funding to local authorities who would like to introduce one of the campaigns in their area. The first application round closes 5pm September 13th. Find out more at www.neatstreets.org.uk

A great way of getting peoples ideas of recycling focused on the end product and the positives without forgetting the hard work of everyone involved in waste recycling and management.

It's time to lead in recycling ♻ Ensuring less goes to landfill🚛 Following a few months together, the brotherhood is officially going to be a long-term partnership. Seems I can't shake off the Coggin! With a shared mission to increase recycling rates, at business offices, by 20X, then 100X. Across the UK and then in new markets. Following 53 years of family ownership, and 3 generations of Coggin, the family has asked me to lead the business for a few years. Giving Sam a chance to develop/grow, whilst we take the company nationwide, with help from amazing partners he has worked with for years. It will also give us time to work on programs that we are both really passionate about. Giving back to farmers and the forest-communities we care about. Looking forward to the years ahead brother. To one day welcoming you back into the chair, then much cleverer buggers than you or I. One day, when we have succeed together, we can give back to hundreds of forest families and farmers who need our help. Then many years from now, we can welcome in and mentor the fourth generation of the Coggin family. Seeing them develop and grow, until they are ready to boss us around. Right, that's enough manifesting. Let's get stuck into it 💪 💪 💪 #recycling #businessmanagement #esgmanagement #esgstrategy 

My grandmother always had a bowl on her kitchen counter to collect food scraps. When I was a child, I didn’t think anything about this bowl, except perhaps how odd it was that she didn’t just do what most Americans do with their food scraps—toss them in a white plastic trash bag and leave them properly bagged to be taken to a landfill. For years, that’s what I did, I bagged all my trash, including the recyclables, and wheeled our giant bin to the curb every week (or my husband did). And then I remembered my grandma’s bowl of food scraps, and her daily, humble ritual of taking the scraps to the woods. That quiet practice was just one way she modeled for me and the rest of my cousins a sustainable life of simplicity and environmental stewardship. It took me forty years to do it, but now, I sort my recyclables and trash. I try to reduce the amount of stuff we send to the curb. I keep a container on my counter for food scraps, and I walk a similar path to our woods to dump the potato peels and eggshells into our compost heap. It’s possible that your children and grandchildren will just naturally pick up on your heart for creation, but why leave it to whimsy and fate? God seems intent on using us to bless the generations of family members that follow us—just look at the promises he made to Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and David! We can be intentional about passing on a legacy of creation care and environmental stewardship to our kinfolk. Here are a few ways you can incorporate creation care into your legacy planning: #legacyplanning #legacybuilding https://lnkd.in/egkYJg5P

Happy Earth Day! This year's theme is "Planet vs. Plastics," calling on all stakeholders — individuals, businesses, and governments to unite in reducing plastic pollution to protect our collective health. U.S. health costs have increased to more than $250B due to chemicals in plastics. This Earth Day, make a point to reject single-use plastics, say no to fast fashion, and clean up litter for the sake of human and planetary health. You can always pitch in locally by supporting any of our member groups actively working for the betterment of our environment, food, and farms like 1000 Friends of Wisconsin, CITIZENS FOR SAFE WATER AROUND BADGER, Clean Wisconsin, FairShare CSA Coalition, Friends of Wisconsin State Parks, Gathering Waters: Wisconsin's Alliance for Land Trusts, Midwest Environmental Advocates, Physicians for Social Responsibility Wisconsin, REAP Food Group, River Alliance of Wisconsin, Rock River Coalition Inc, Rooted, Sierra Club Wisconsin, Southern Wisconsin Bird Alliance, Sustain Dane, Urban Triage, Inc., Wisconsin Conservation Voices, and Wisconsin Wetlands Association. A modest donation can go a long way to improving the lives of those in our community and create a domino effect of change. 💚

40,000… That’s how many pieces of litter were found on Guernsey’s beaches over the space of just one year. That’s on top of 10,000 cigarette butts which, along with the litter, were collected by beach clean-up volunteers. Whilst it’s great that they were able to remove so much litter… It just goes to show how big of a problem it is, especially for marine life, which can be put in danger by this pollution. Now there are calls for more environmentally responsible packaging to be used, as well as greater awareness amongst consumers. "The report highlights the importance of looking after our natural environment and picking up litter where you can, whether it is three pieces or hundreds of items, it all makes a difference." Have you seen any seaside litter lately? https://lnkd.in/eJZaBeEx #Sustainability #Innovation #Creativity

Celebrate International Compost Awareness Week with Us! This week, we're spotlighting Gary Gandel, a local champion for sustainable food systems! Gary has been instrumental in establishing new gardens around Walnut Hills that utilize composting to grow fresh produce. These gardens then donate their produce to organizations that feed the community. Gary's dedication exemplifies the power of compost to nourish not just the soil, but also those in need. Want to learn more about Gary's inspiring work? Check out this article from La Soupe, Inc.: bit.ly/3y7PTmJ

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Imagine a freeway, not as a ribbon of asphalt, but as a canvas of opportunity. My friend and I see that canvas and are grabbing our gloves. We're hitting the freeways, not just to rid them of litter, but to reclaim CRV materials that too often are overlooked. This isn't just clean-up. It's a mission. A mission for cleaner freeways, a better city in the Inland Empire, and ultimately, a greener planet. Every CRV material we collect fuels our fundraiser, a seed for a new kind of recycling initiative right here in our community. We're talking about an initiative that doesn't just deal with trash. It's about educating, inspiring, and transforming the way we see waste - not as an end, but as a resource. This is where you come in. Your support, whether through joining us, spreading the word, or contributing to our fundraiser, isn't just help. It's a statement. A statement that you believe in cleaner roads, educated communities, and a healthier planet. Drop a comment or message us. Let’s not just clean – let’s educate and inspire. Together, we can turn trash into treasure and freeways into pathways of change.