Tesco Display

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.

Fairtrade Fayre 2010

 

As part of "fairtrade fortnight" 2010, volunteers from Shropshire Master Composters attended a huge food fair in central Shrewsbury to promote home composting.  There were more than 12 stalls mainly selling ethically sourced food, drink and clothing from developing countries.  There was also fantastic Caribbean music provided from the Telford West Indian Associations Youth Steel Band.  The town crier opened up the event and rounded up hundreds of people to attend.  They all learned about the difference you can make in peoples lives by choosing to pay a fair price for produce from developing countries and of course whilst they were at it we showed them why they should compost too!