We all got together in Shrewsbury Town Square this week to engage face-to-face with local residents. Its all part of the annual Compost Awareness Week promotions which we undertake to encourage a move away from peat based composts and to try to reduce the amount of rubbish which gets thrown away.
It was a gloriously sunny day, and despite the recession, the shoppers were out in good force and we must have spoken to over 100 people over the course of the day.
We borrowed the mobile exhibition trailer from the Council to help create a centre peice and arranged some tables and gazebos around it.
Social enterprise Re-play IT were making badges with the little ones...
Scientists from the Field Studies Centre were offering people the chance to look at worms and compost minibeasts under the microscope...
Master Composter Cheryl also took advantage of the media interest to get some valuable publicity from the Shropshire Star for promoting home composting. Hopefully this will be published in the local paper so further helping to get the message out to people in Shropshire that by composting we can all save money and the environment.
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