Bookshelf

 There is a new page on the website: Bookshelf

Climate change and biodiversity books to borrow and read

If you would like to borrow a book, get in touch

If you have books you would like to add to the Bookshelf, let Phil know

Bookshelf

https://bjcab.blogspot.com/p/bookshelf.html

Key points from last meeting

Key headings from minutes 

Burton Joyce Climate action meeting 

Monday September 5^th 2022 

Burton Joyce village

Community Market in September

Bulb planting project 

Cadent land near sundial

Parish Council Environment plan 

Planters outside Coop

Tree Planting on riverbank 

Group development

Volunteer to help with comms, admin etc. 

Finances / bank account 

Friends of the Earth “Ask the Expert”

Speakers for future events

Article for Village Magazine

AOB

Village Society questionnaire 

Net Zero community forum

BJCAB Treekly app group

BJCAB Whats App group

FOE home heating and fuel poverty campaign

Next meeting 

Tuesday 1-11-22 at 7pm, Old School

November meeting

The next Climate Group meeting  

Tues 1/11/22 at 7pm 

Old School building 

Burton Joyce

Please come if you can

'Green Bin it Better' meeting report

 Burton Joyce Climate Action Group

Do you know what should go in your green bin?

 I was more than a little confused- but no longer, having recently attended a talk entitled “Green Bin it Better “ organised by the BJCAG.

 Lesley, a recycling expert from Veolia, gave a lively talk about what to put in our green bins ( and what not to!) and also showed a short film about what happens at Veolia’s Materials Recovery Centre in Mansfield.

A quiz revealed to us that no one in the audience was getting it 100% correct at the moment, leading to contamination and hence less recycling of the items we are carefully putting into our bins. 10-20% of everything received at the recovery centre is contaminated by the wrong materials or by food residue.

Paper is the most commonly recycled material with newspapers, cardboard, magazines, books and envelopes making up over 50%of recycled material. However, contaminated paper and card cannot be processed so please no pizza box bases smeared with cheese and tomato sauce !

Lesley told us that tins are a recycling success story with 95%of the tins and aerosol cans we put in our green bins being recycled. There’s a strong market for recycled tins because it is cheaper to recycle aluminium and steel tins than to make them from new. Just remember to give them a good rinse so the contents don’t cause contamination.

All plastic bottles are suitable, although the capture rate is less than 50% nationally. It’s recommended that once the bottle is rinsed and flattened that you put the lid back on (including milk bottle lids). The exceptions are pump action and spray top lids so please remove as they cannot be recycled.

One of the questions from the audience was about aluminium foil. Aluminium trays and foil cannot go in our green bins but can be recycled elsewhere. Use www.recyclenow.com to find out what you can recycle and where. I’ve used this site to find that our nearest collection point for foil is Lowdham Village Hall Carpark.

We all use a lot of soft plastic, carrier bags, bread wrappers etc and many in the audience were already aware that these can now be dropped off at the Co-op.

Getting recycling right can be a bit confusing but this talk made it much clearer.

                                           “ If in Doubt, leave it Out”

                                       

Happy recycling Burton Joyce!

    

                                

Sharon Meldrum

July group meeting

Burton Joyce Climate Action & Biodiversity Group 

Next group meeting: 

Monday 18th July at 7pm
at the Old School in Burton Joyce village centre (opposite Nola's)

Market Stall

 Market stall on Saturday!

Come and see us at the Burton Joyce Community Market this Saturday morning, 9th April 2022, at Burton Joyce Village Hall. 

Find out about our latest projects: planting more trees near the river, planting flowers in the village for pollinators, recycling and much more!

Come and say Hello!

Big Plastic Count

Join the Greenpeace Big Plastic Count

16-22 May 2022

" Sign up now, count your plastic for one week and together let’s gather the evidence we need to push for proper action to tackle the plastic crisis. 

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Sign on details here:

Big Plastic Count