A couple of us volunteers from
Shropshire Master Composters recently joined staff from Shropshire Council and Tesco to promote waste reduction at the new Tesco Extra store on the site of the old cattle market in north Shrewsbury. We focused our display on home composting but also did a separate stand on
Love Food Hate Waste. The Council also did a stand all about recycling and Tesco were focusing on highlighting energy efficiency including giving away free wind up radios all day! Very generous! (Rather made our free love food recipe cards seem less generous though)
It was a successful day though with several hundred people passing by over the course of the day. A big thanks to all the volunteers who helped with the composting display and to Tesco (and in particular their new regional Community Manager Chris) for organising the event and not only supplying us with lots of cuppas throughout the day but also giveaways and prizes to help encourage more interest in our stalls.
Lets hope more people get the message and start to recycle and compost more and waste less.
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