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Fielding Primary – Creative Ideas To Reduce Your Plastic Waste

5 July 2018 / Ealing FoE

Fielding Primary School Summer Fair Fielding Primary School in West Ealing have introduced several initiatives to cut plastic waste at their fairs, which should inspire others organising similar events. Refreshment stalls charged a pound deposit on reusable cups. Pupils could buy branded water bottles and get access to unlimited tap water and squash. Craft stalls […]

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Zero Waste Shopping – How to do it

1 March 2018 / Ealing FoE

Zero-waste shopping can mean a number of things: buying articles designed to last. eg, good-quality T-shirts that last for years rather than cheap ones that lose their shape after a couple of washes; buying secondhand from charity shops, Ebay, etc, obtaining goods from Freecycle, Freegle, etc; repairing or repurposing items. Zero-waste shopping can mean a

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Check Your Local Pollution Levels

19 February 2018 / Ealing FoE

See how polluted your area is right now with this Live Air Quality Data. This map shows a pollution “nowcast”, which is a service to show current pollution levels in detail across London in comparison with the Government’s Air Pollution Index. It is created by combining readings taken within the last hour and air pollution

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Plastic Microbeads and how to dispose them.

20 November 2017 / Ealing FoE

This article by Recyclebank answers a question from a subscribed reader and outlines what microbeads are and how to dispose of them properly. Recyclebank is a company that encourages environmentally friendly habits. Read Article

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