Elly and her family are finding ways of making small changes to see how low they can get their carbon footprint. Elly is one of about 20 volunteers who joined the Herefordshire Climate Challenge Team in 2020 to contribute to making a difference in ou…
Waste
Cutting down on the amount of waste produced, reducing our use of natural resources, recycling and composting materials and recovering energy from those we can no longer use is a vital part of reaching net zero carbon emissions.
Make a small change
Elly - work out what will make a difference
Reducing food waste and composting
Food waste An estimated one third of all the food produced in the world goes to waste – that’s well over 3 billion tonnes of food (WWF). When we waste food, we also waste all the energy and water it takes to grow, harvest, transport, and package i…
Becky - sharing and learning from others
My name is Becky and I live on a smallholding with my family a few miles north of Hereford. We moved here two years ago for a bit of land and some space to develop myself as an horticulturist. We sure got that in spade loads here with an ancient flo…
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Kick Out Plastics
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Refill and reduce plastic water bottle waste
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