This Junk Mail was written by Nicky Scott and Richard Gomme.

1. Issue 7 2011
Devon Community Recycling & Community Composting Network News
Spare food is share food
The future of waste in Devon
Anaerobic digester in Plymouth
Recycle rigid plastic
This issue: The Big Society
Plastic Planet
In a Pickle
Transition Town Update

2. Features: PEDAL PUSHING
tents
1 Recycling awareness STAFF RAISE
bike ride RECYCLING
AWARENESS
3 “Spare Food is Share
AND CASH FOR
Food!”
CHARITY
4 Predicting the future of
waste in Devon A team of staff from Teignbridge The event provided an amusing specta-
District Council got on their bikes cle for passers-by as the team towed
7 AD Plant at Plymouth
to cycle 38 miles around Teignbridge, a trailer decorated as a recycling bank
9 AD Methane & grass
cuttings
raising awareness of the 10 new plastic
packaging recycling banks in the area,
carrying a stuffed panda passenger.
They also took time to surprise recycling
and raising £300 for World Wildlife Fund bank users, awarding recycling goody
This Junk Mail was written by Nicky Scott
and Richard Gomme.
Designed by Isolde Brampton-Greene with
10 Do you drink bottled
water?
to support its work tackling the effects of bags to the first person they saw using
illustrations by Bob Gale (Proper Job) climate change. the new banks in each location.
Printing by MoorPrint.
Contact Details 12 Bottle deposit schemes
Please send copy/pictures/drawings for
Bob to develop to:
Richard Gomme
13 Recycle rigid plastic
Devon Community Recycling Network
Chapel Cottage, Thorn, Chagford, Devon,
TQ13 8DX.
14 Refurnish opens in
Buckfastleigh
Tel: 01647 433872
email: info@dcrn.org.uk
www.dcrn.org.uk
Nicky Scott
15 Torbay celebrates
Devon Community Composting Network
8 Meldon Road, Chagford, Devon, TQ13 8BG 16 Devon Scrapstores
Tel: 01647 433148
email: nicky.scott@devon.gov.uk
www.dccn.org.uk
19 This is rubbish
PEDAL PUSHING STAFF RAISING AWARENESS
1

3. mornings at the Congress Hall Congress Hall & Open Door Café,
on Armada Way in Plymouth Shekinah Mission
City Centre. Currently our team
of volunteers take delivery of
Wiseman Dairies surplus milk At the end of April 2011, DCFA
otherwise destined for the drain, had helped to divert more than
sort it, update our databank and 2,000 litres of milk from landfill
then immediately issues it to the
and has brought smiles to more
ten charitable organisations that
volunteers. Many also work or than ten charitable organisations
have registered with DCFA so far.
“Spare Food is volunteer for other charitable
organisations in the area which
These organisations currently in our region. This has saved
Share Food!” means they understand all
include: them an expenditure of £2,000
too well just how difficult and in the first ten weeks that DCFA
Devon and Cornwall Food About Time, Age Concern,
Association (DCFA) aims to try to stop expensive it is to provide food for Amber Initiatives, Befriending has been trading! Obviously,
good, in-date food produce from the disadvantaged Consortium, Devon & Cornwall bigger savings will be made as
going to landfill and then to share among us. Refugee Support (DCRS), Elder DCFA progresses. The result of
it out to community organisations
Tree Visiting & Befriending
in Devon and Cornwall that feed DCFA does not and will not issue re-distributing this food produce
Service, Friends & Residents
disadvantaged individuals either to our registered organisations
food directly to individuals... of Sutton Trust (FROST), Gilead
by providing meals or issuing
only to registered charitable Foundations Charity, Oasis means that they in turn can save
food parcels. Hence our Strapline:
organisations. Centre, Plymouth FoodBank,
“Spare Food is Share Food!” money. And the cash saved can
Plymouth & District MIND
be put to their own core-aims.
DCFA currently has no paid Without any permanent premises Association, Plymouth Refuge
staff. All its helpers, including of its own, DCFA is currently only (Plymouth Domestic Abuse A good result all round! (edited
its Board of Trustees, are unpaid able to operate on Wednesday Service), Salvation Army: from DCFA)
2 Spare food is share food Spare food is share food 3

4. planned change, but what happens if/ Essentially we would like to see more
when a different scenario unfolds? It resources being directed at waste
reminds me of the radio 4 programme prevention and reduction, such as:
Questions dot Questions? - are there,
in fact, questions for which we do not 1 Home and in situ composting of
have suitable answers for? Who knows kitchen and garden waste,
how fast changes may be, when they
may occur, and what impact they may 2 More community based facilities
have? How fast will oil supplies decline to support ways of dealing with waste
or prices increase? What impact at source (localisation) and recovering
will this have on the consumption and adding value to include reuse,
of products & plastic packaging repair and spare parts centres, DIY
dependent on cheap oil for production and building material reclamation,
and distribution, and on the waste that community composting & garden
arises from them? Will it cause waste waste shredder hire service, micro
Predicting
• How waste will be managed in AD (anaerobic digestion), small scale
arising to reduce sharply as opposed
the future in line with the waste combined heat and power from waste/
to current thinking which assumes
hierarchy (reduce, reuse, recycle/ bio mass. Old fashioned common
waste will grow? What will be the
the future compost, energy recovery,
landfill), making informed
knock-on effect on resource recovery
and waste transportation? What will
sense such as allowing waste food to
be fed to animals.
of waste in
assumptions about recycling and be the outcome of the economic crisis,
3 Facilities to enable trade waste
recovery rates and the extent to or worse crisis, and social change and
reuse/recycling to be dealt with
which the use of landfill can be technological progress? How far off
Devon
alongside household reuse/recycling.
minimised. is personal carbon rationing – where
consuming less is rewarded, and 4 Facilities where composite items
• The plan has identified three those who consume a lot of stuff and
Devon Local Authorities have been may be dismantled for component
spatial options. Briefly: a smaller produce a lot of waste pay their fair
consulting on their Core Waste reuse/recycling (de-manufacture and
number of large centralised share?
Strategy which seeks to plan for future up-cycling). Think appliances, furniture,
facilities, a larger number of bedbases, mattresses, bikes, windows
waste arising and appropriate waste smaller local facilities, and We may have a not-so-distant etc – so many items, large and small,
management facilities for Devon to
an appropriate mix of both future that is very different from our are made using different materials
2031. This will include predicting:
centralised and localised facilities. current situation, where flexibility and which require separation for recycling.
adaptability may be key, where much
• How much waste will be
It would be wise to acknowledge more resources must be recovered, 5 Facilities to enable reuse targets/
generated up to 2031
that waste planning is a difficult and where waste must be dealt with as quotas with producer responsibility
• How much additional waste challenging task, not least because the near to source as possible, where for product durability, take-back &
management capacity will be future tends to be unpredictable, we live individuals and communities have eco-design for reuse.
needed in uncertain times and changes can be more responsibility for their waste,
sudden. Authorities will plan for current and costs and values have changed 6 Facilities to enable reusable and
trends to continue with gradual and beyond expectation. refillable packaging such as bottle &
4 Predicting the future of waste Predicting the future of waste 5

5. container deposit return schemes. Plans need to be considered that
7 Facilities for screening residual
include alternative scenarios. Transition
Totnes produced their Energy Descent
Anaerobic digestion,
waste to tackle careless disposal
and missed recyclables and enable
Action Plan www.totnesedap.org.
uk. How would a more detailed
bio-methane
resource recovery capture rate targets. descent plan for waste look? There’s
the book ‘Future Scenarios’ by David and vehicle fuel
8 Is it time to reappraise the
from food waste
Holmgren, previously reviewed in JM.
kerbside collection of waste and www.futurescenarios.org. It considers
recycling? Could individual household scenarios and their implications, from
collection be phased out and replaced rapid oil decline/rapid climate change
with more communal arrangements through to slow oil decline/slow climate
and enhanced bring facilities, so that change, and evaluates ‘green-tech
the householder undertakes increased fixes’ and earth stewardship. Richard
source segregation, and saves money Heinberg’s ‘end of growth’ message is
for their community. also thought provoking as economies
come up against resource constraints.
Many of these suggestions would www.richardheinberg.com.
reduce waste, create local jobs, keep
more value within communities, and There were 5 waste core strategy
reduce the need for large centralised statements in the Waste Strategy
disposal facilities. As a flavour of the document, so we suggested a
cost of centralised waste disposal sixth: How the waste strategy can
Devon LA’s have recently signed accomodate an Energy Descent Action
contracts for a £45m Viridor Energy Plan to incorporate different scenarios.
from Waste (EfW) 60,000 tonnes p/a RG.
plant in Exeter and the Umvelt contract
for the proposed EfW plant at Plymouth
to serve Torbay, south & west Devon The recent opening of a £3.4m anaero- 12,000 tonnes p/a of food waste will
and Plymouth will cost £1bn. bic digestion (AD) plant at Langage come from households.
Farm outside Plymouth has highlighted However, there are concerns that
the growing role of AD. Langage Farm Energy from Waste plants, which burn
produces dairy products and the AD food waste in residual waste to gener-
plant capacity of 20,000 tonnes p/a will ate electricity, may discourage separate
combine slurry from dairy cows with food waste collections for AD. Marcus
food waste to produce energy, heat and Grover of WRAP said “AD is a growing
digestate fertiliser. It is anticipated that part of the resource efficiency solution,
6 Predicting the future of waste AD Plant at Langage Farm 7

6. capable of diverting bio-degradable
waste from landfill, creating renewable
will be double that of producing
electricity from biogas by 2020. Biogas
AD, Methane, if allowed to vent directly into the
atmosphere, hundreds of cubic metres
energy, stimulating the green economy, from the AD process must be converted food and grass of methane, from small amounts of
and improving the sustainability of into bio-methane before being suitable high nitrogen waste. Grass cuttings,
commercial agriculture. We really see it as vehicle fuel. Bio-methane trans- cuttings one of the most commonly wasted
as a huge opportunity for the UK”. port fuel from food waste has huge materials are extremely potent emitters
I visited Rothampstead Research
potential because we have insufficient of methane and that smell I notice, every
recently and was shown around by
alternatives to petroleum fuels.
the Bio Energy team. It was fascinating time I walk my dog around the local
The Holsworthy biogas plant was an
AD pioneer in the region 10 years ago, to see all the experiments they are playing field, just makes me think of all
but the technology has been slow to Food waste, both household and conducting. Seeing how they can the people that are dumping grass and
spread. AD is widely used in Europe commercial remains the big waste extract the maximum amount of making little methane polluting piles
with Germany having 5,000 AD plants. stream to be tackled. WRAP estimates methane during the process to be all over the place. (Methane is over
WRAP (Waste & Resources Action £12bn of food and drink is wasted used as energy to make fuel to power twenty times more potent than CO2 as a
Programme) says AD of food waste annually, equating to 20 million tonnes greenhouse gas).
vehicles, heat homes etc. Part of their
in England could generate enough of food waste. The first task is waste
work is looking at and selecting the
electricity for 600,000 homes, the prevention, but if this food waste were
most effective microorganisms over So whilst Anaerobic Digestion is a
National Grid suggests that up to 50% treated by AD it has the benefit of
a range of different feedstocks. I was great thing, and I would love to have
of the UK’s domestic gas heating could producing bio-methane transport fuel,
shown a prototype small scale digester a community AD plant in Chagford,
be met, and The Carbon Trust is calling bio-gas, heat, electricity, and fertiliser,
and there are obviously many more it is rather more complicated to do,
for the conversion of biogas from AD and avoiding harmful landfill. RG
to bio-methane for transport fuel to technical challenges than involved with than aerobic composting, and I just
be incentivised by the Government, composting. For one thing methane is wish all those lawn grass cutting and
because the climate change benefits highly explosive and so you need to dumping fanatics would either; leave
have pretty stringent safety checks! But it on the lawn, or layer with cardboard,
small scale digesters are going to be woodchip, sawdust, prunings, dry plant
coming in and the thought of using a stems etc and make a lovely aerobic
communities waste to turn into local compost pile instead of these oozing,
power is very inspiring. smelly polluting methane bombs! NS
I was shocked to hear of the amounts of
methane released by various materials,
8 AD Plant at Langage Farm AD, Methane and grass cuttings 9

7. Do you
process of water bottles in the UK to schemes? (is that old fashioned taps! or • Bottled water generates up to 600
keep 17,000 cars on the road for a year. spring water refill tanks recently seen at times more CO2 than tap water.
festivals). EU countries already exten-
Bottled water is subject to less stringent • takes 162g of oil and seven litres
drink
sively reuse plastic bottles, so why not
purity standards than tap water. It may of water (including power plant
the UK? We must think beyond recycling.
have sat around for months, subjected cooling water) just to manufacture
So what is the relative impact of single
to high temperatures during transporta- a one-litre bottle, creating over
bottled
use plastic bottles?
tion and storage, and may contain toxic 100g of greenhouse gas emissions
chemicals like bisphenol A which leach- • According to the Earth Policy Insti- (10 balloons full of CO2) per empty
es from the plastic - far from the image tute it would take less than a third bottle.
water? of fresh mountain mineral water depict-
ed on labels. Dr Richard Thompson, a
marine scientist from Plymouth Univer-
of the annual amount spent by
consumers on bottled water ($100
billion) to achieve the UN’s Millen-
• Most bottles are made from virgin
plastic polymers due to purity
issues; plastic recycling is gener-
sity says, ‘We’ve now tracked plastics nium Development Goal of halving
ally ‘downcycling’ as it degrades
particles smaller than the thickness of a the number of people without
and gets contaminated. It is often
human hair, to 20 microns…and we’ve access to safe drinking water by
used for end products like pipes,
found nine different polymers, consist- 2015.
recycling boxes, composters, water
ent with water bottles, all over the UK
• Bottled water is just as expensive butts etc.
(environment) and further afield as well.’
as petrol. Britons spend £2 billion
It would appear the impact of bottled If you don’t like tap water there are
per year consuming about 3bn
water runs far deeper than litter. many filters on the market that will
litres of it, and about 10bn plastic
improve the taste. So remember to take
In total, UK plastic bottle consumption bottles end up in landfill every year.
a drink out with you next time!
Have you ever considered that bottled within the household waste streams
water can cost the equivalent price is about 557,000 tonnes, and 260,000 Sources ‘Recoup’ and www.reusable-
to petrol, and may contain harmful tonnes were recycled representing a bottle.co.uk (check out the great range
substances leaching from the plastic? recycling rate of 45% for plastic bottles. of water bottles, including stainless
Apparently one bottle of water has the Plastic bottles are a recent phenom- steel, available from the site). RG.
same impact on the environment as ena. They could be easily minimised by
driving a car for a kilometre! There’s using reusable drinking bottles or water
enough oil used in the production filters. Or why not have refill dispensing
10 Do you drink bottled water? Do you drink bottled water? 11

8. You can now recycle
your rigid plastic
Bottle Deposit Schemes packaging pots, tubs
and trays at the new
collection banks located
Bottle Deposit schemes –
across Teignbridge.
90% recycling? ‘Stop The Drop’ CPRE campaign
manager Samantha Harding said “we
This is additional to the current plastic
never hear what these ‘other ways’
The Campaign to Protect Rural England recycling collection available at all DCC
are or how they would match the 90% Recycling Centres. The new plastic
has renewed its call for the introduc-
recycling rates deposits schemes could packaging banks are situated in the
tion of a deposit refund system for drink
deliver in the UK”. following car parks;
containers, despite the government
ruling out the option in last month’s Kingsbridge Lane, Ashburton All of the following items will be accepted
Victoria Woodholme Car Park, in the new plastic
Waste Review. “The government seems unwilling to
Buckfastleigh packaging bank;
encourage producers to take respon-
Barton Hill and Sandy Lane, Dawlish yogurt pots
sibility for their products and in the
The charity recently launched research Market Way, Chudleigh margarine tubs
meantime we have to pay nearly a
carried out by Bristol consultancy billion pounds a year to have litter Tesco, Kingsteignton plastic bottles and bottle tops
Eunomia which it claims demonstrates cleared up and sent to landfill.” ready meal trays (please remove film lid)
B & Q and Sainsburys, Newton Abbot
how bringing in a deposit refund plastic sandwich containers
Brook Street, Teignmouth.
system (DRS) could create up to 4,300 CD cases
Methodist Church Car Park,
full time-equivalent jobs, reduce litter, (RG - not to mention the cost and Plastic flower pots
Bovey Tracey
increase recycling rates up to 90%, and energy consumed in collecting, smash-
Wolborough Way Car Park, plastic fruit containers
save councils money. Proposals would ing, transporting, remaking and distrib-
Newton Abbot pre formed biscuit or chocolate box trays
be for a deposit of between 15-30p per uting every bottle, jam jar and glass
Trago Mills Car Park Please remember to rinse and squash!
bottle or can, refundable on return. conainer! i recently saw new jam jars
for sale to smallholders at 60p each. Betton Way Car Park,
Moretonhampstead The following items are not accepted;
Or imagine taking your own reusable
The Government does not support containers to get refills - previously JM The Strand Car Park, Starcross
plastic bags, cling film, crisps and
a deposit scheme but favours ‘other reported on research that showed that Jacks Patch Car Park, Bishopsteignton biscuit wrappers, bubble wrap, plastic
ways’ of increasing recycling and cost savings of up to 70% could be toys, ink cartridges, paint containers,
Please note that only the banks at
addressing litter, it claims set up costs achieved by using refills and cheaper these locations are for mixed plastic. plastic razors, pet food/drink pouches,
for businesses would be high. packaging solutions.) All other banks are currently for plastic polystyrene, bio-plastics (e.g.
bottles only. compostable packaging).
12 Bottle deposit schemes Recycle rigid plastic packaging 13

9. REFURNISH opens Torbay celebrates its recycling centre
Buckfastleigh improvements
shop. Torbay’s Deputy Mayor Cllr David Thomas and SW England MEP Giles Chichester
joined the celebrations on June 24th to mark the official re-opening of the Recycling
Centre (HWRC) at Yalberton on the outskirts of Paignton , which takes both house-
Refurnish, the friendly community “All we ask is that they are in a reason- hold and trade waste. The £500k improvements to facilities are part of Torbay’s
new recycling programme run by TOR2, the joint venture company set up last year
charity that sells secondhand furni- able cosmetic condition – we have by Torbay Council and May Gurney to deliver a wide range of essential front-line
ture and household goods, and full-time trained engineers working services across the Bay.
provides jobs and training for young in Totnes and Newton Abbot, and The initiative has led to a 9% boost to the Bay’s recycling rate, from 36 to 45%, with
people who need help to get into Ivybridge, so we can fix any electri- high hopes that it will hit its 50% target in 2012.
employment, has opened a new cal or mechanical problems. All our The HWRC also has a new collection facility for unwanted re-saleable furniture
shop in Buckfastleigh, next to the electrical items are fully checked and which will be sold in Rowcroft Hospice charity shops. Free household collections of
reusable furniture are also available via Refurnish from its Victoria Square furniture
Co-op on the high street. This adds approved before we sell them.” reuse shop 01803 559065.
to the Refurnish shops in Paignton, Please call Refurnish first: “Some Further information about recycling can be found on the Torbay Council website at
Newton Abbot, Ivybridge, Tavistock breakdowns can make repair uneco- www.torbay.gov.uk and the TOR2 website at www.tor2.co.uk
and Totnes. nomic,” said David. “If we have to
write-off a washing machine, for
example, we can re-use spare parts Register with Environment Agency for your new
As well as a great source of good
quality, affordable furniture and electri-
and sell the rest for scrap, but some Community Composting permit by October
fridges can sometimes just cost too
cal items, Refurnish is also a good The deadline for holders of an old style Paragraph 12 composting exemption to
much to repair and we have to pay move to a new T23 composting exemption is fast approaching, and many of you
way of getting rid of unwanted items
to dispose of some non-recyclable are yet to register for the new exemption. This is a very simple, quick process which
– especially those hard to dispose of can be completed online, for free.
components.”
white goods. The Environment Agency have confirmed that operators have until the 1 October
2011 to have submitted an application for an exemption or permit under the Environ-
Refurnish regional manager David
mental Permitting Regulations 2010 or cease the activity, they are not automatically
Banks said: “We will collect unwanted Contact Buckfastleigh Refurnish shop transferred . So everyone needs to register for a new exemption regardless of what
washing machines, fridges, freezers 01364 643661 or 01364 643661, type of exemption they have held in the past.
and so on free of charge – or they can or visit www.dff.org.uk for details of You can apply online (or download a form) from the EA website: http://www.
be dropped off at any of our branches, the other branches across the area. environment-agency.gov.uk/business/topics/permitting/121138.aspx
Monday to Saturday. David Banks. And you can read all about the new exemptions here: http://www.community-
compost.org/index.php/projects/legislation
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10. Scrapstores
The scrapstores provide an ever-changing amount
of various materials and provide low cost arts and
crafts giving you the opportunity to purchase items
1 Paignton Ali Way – part of
and surplus materials at affordable prices.
Hollocombe Resource Centre, 386
Torquay Rd, 01803 527711
2 Exeter Scrapstore, Belmont Pk, Ali Way Community Recycling Enterprise:
Gordon Rd, 01392 665509 www.
Ali-Way Community Recycling Enterprise, based at
exeterscrapstore.co.uk email: jo@
Hollacombe Community Resource Centre, has been
exeterscrapstore.co.uk
running for 4 years and comprises of foil and can
3 Holsworthy Family collections and recycling, milk bottle top recycling,
Workshop Resource Centre, a Scrap Store, with approx 100 members. Also
Devon
North Rd, 01409 254272 email: Community Composting.
holsworthyholsworthyfamilyworkshop@
Exeter Scrapstore:
googlemail.com website: www.hfwrc.
com Exeter Scrapstore is a vibrant resource for education,
recycling, and creative activities in Exeter’s Belmont
4 Plymouth Play Association,
Park. The facility provides a service for nearly 1000
Union rd, Stonehouse, Plymouth
current cardholders within Exeter and across the whole
01752 256633 email: development@
of Devon. The Scrapstore mainly benefits children
plymouthplay.org
and young people and the membership includes
5 R.O.P.E. scrapstore, unit 3, lower families, community groups, children’s centres, youth
union rd, Kingsbridge 01548 857952 groups, schools, colleges and other organisations. It is
estimated the Scrapstore reaches over 10,000 children
6 Proper Job at Chagford, c/o
and young people across Devon each year. The store
Crannafords Ind Estate, 01647 432985,
helps reduce waste sent to landfill by providing a
good textiles & other materials. Email:
variety of materials from businesses and industries
recycling@proper-job.org
Devon has a brilliant network of that have chosen to recycle their off-cuts and line
scrapstores offering a wide range of 7 Tavistock Community Scrapstore ends. These materials are then used for play and
surplus materials, crafts, play and at Molly Owen Centre, Westbridge Ind creative activities.
educational resources available to Estate. 01822 612981
Holsworthy Family Workshop and Resource Centre
everyone. Scrapstores often organise There may be scrapstore membership (HFWRC):
activities and events and provide required to access the resources and
valuable support to children, families, The Centre provides social and educational
specific opening times. To find out
carers, and disadvantaged and opportunities in an informal atmosphere where
more follow the appropriate link on the
disabled people as well as reducing parents, children and professionals can network.
recycledevon website.
waste and promoting reuse. It is Services include arts and crafts supplies, creative
estimated over 10,000 children benefit www.recycledevon.org/kidszone/ family workshops, Bouncy Castle hire, Badge-maker
from the scrapstore activities around teachers/primary/books-resources. hire. Membership to the Project for the year is: £24.00
Devon every year. Here’s a list: php#Scrapstores a group or £12.00 a family.
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11. This is rubbish
Plymouth Play Association:
The project offers toys and equipment hire, a huge
scrapstore selection of clean and safe waste products,
equality and diversity resources, play advice and support,
craft workshops and an art shop. Membership starts supply chain can significantly reduce
at £4.00 for students, £5.00 for individuals £15.00 for a green house gas emissions, save
charitable organisation £20.00 for a private provider and
consumers money and stop good food
£30.00 for schools.
going to waste. This is Rubbish was
R.O.P.E. Scrapstore: voted a winner in the Big Lottery Peoples
R.O.P.E Scrapstore operate out of a small business unit with Millions and it seeks to emphasise the
the aim of offering as wide a variety of stock as they can. fact that reducing food waste is the joint
In order to make the Scrapstore as accessible as possible
responsibility of people and companies:
a one off membership subscription of £1.00 for individuals,
£5.00 for groups and £10.00 for schools is required. People * Less than 40% of UK food waste is
with Learning Disabilities are offered opportunities to help produced by households.
run the Scrapstore. It facilitates inclusion within the local
community, fosters confidence in the people they work with * TIR want to see all retailers obliged
and also provide a valuable and much appreciated service to report on the food waste they
to the community. Transition Town Totnes recently held a generate in their activities, with
Proper Job reuse, recycling and composting centre, large street ‘eat out’ using local food annual reports audited and publicised
Chagford. to highlight the issue of food waste as by an independent commission.
part of the ‘This is Rubbish’ campaign.
The site is open to the public 6 days a week10- 4pm, weds * TIR want the government to
close 1pm. Comprehensive reuse and recycling facilities, TIR aims to hold events around the
introduce an obligation upon retailers
bring and buy facilities, wide range of one off items and country to raise awareness among
to reduce food waste.
materials for sale, good range of textiles, paint, wood, bric people about the shocking scale of
a brac, vintage, reclamation . Occassional workshops. food waste in the UK. * TIR strive to find redistribution
Eco-buildings. PJ also run The Courtyard café and shop in solutions within the food industry, and
Chagford. Over 20 million tonnes of good food
at community level.
is wasted in the UK every year whilst
Tavistock Community Scrapstore:
4 million of its citizens are unable to http://www.thisisrubbish.org.uk/
The Scrapstore is at the heart of creative activities in the access or afford a nutritional diet. If we
Tavistock area, providing resources for and supporting
stopped wasting food that could have
all sorts of events & theatre activities. It also provides opportunities for adults with
learning disabilities to help run the Scrapstore and pursue their own art based been eaten, we could also reduce
projects. The scrapstore stocks anything that has a possible art/craft application that environmental impacts the equivalent of
would otherwise go to land fill, and is donated by industry and the public. Reduce, taking 1 in 4 cars off UK roads! Tackling
reuse, recycle! They also have a small craft shop to augment their stock. Tavistock the problem at every stage of the food
Community Scrapstore are open between 10 – 3 on Tuesdays and Thursdays.
Membership: £5 for individuals, £10 for organizations, ‘scrap’ is £1 per carrier bag.
18 Devon Scrapstores 19

12. DCRN & DCCN 2011 Conference
Wednesday 2 November
9.30am - 3.30pm
Boniface Centre, Crediton
Church Lane, East St, EX17 2AH
Unrivalled opportunity for networking with community
activists, social enterprises and local projects, volunteers,
Councillors and Recycling Officers from across Devon
involved in composting, reuse, recycling, climate change
local action, and Transition Towns.
NOTICE OF DCRN AGM AT 9.45 AM
All welcome. Please let us know if you wish to attend.
AGM papers will be available on the day.
Book a free place including lunch via e-mailing
Jan : dcrn-ccn@hotmail.com
send a chq for £10 to Jan Freeman, Carters Barn, Churndon,
Bridestowe, Okehampton, EX20 4QH
chq payable to ‘devon community recycling network’.
this is a refundable deposit to secure lunch and ensure no wasted food,
your chq will be given back to you on the day.
LA delegates cost is £15 non-refundable.
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