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Once again employees at The Consortium have outdone themselves with whacky and fun ways of getting into work without using a car. This year the winners of our World Car Free Day competition were Phillipa and Nick, who came in to work in a trolley!!! It’s all above board though as it was one of own trolleys, not one pilfered from the local supermarket. Congratulations to Nick and Phillipa for helping reduce our impact on the environment, promoting a good cause and having a lot of fun along the way.

What can you do to spread sustainability awareness at your school or office? Why not try and come up some ideas for your classroom, year or even the whole school to help make your school and students or your business more environmentally friendly.

Until next time, be green!

We’ve had some whacky and inventive ways of getting to work today, making World Car Free Day a fun day for employees at The Consortium. We’ll post up some photo’s later this week.

Did you drive to work today or did you make an effort to go car free? Let us know by leaving a comment.

People living in the UK throw away well over 28 million tonnes per year of rubbish from their homes, the same as three and a half million double decker buses. Unfortunately, only around 27% of this waste is recycled while most of the rest is tipped into landfill sites – better known as rubbish tips, large holes dug into the ground to store it. The rubbish stays in the ground for a long time because it does not decompose easily, and it releases poisonous materials,  greenhouse gases such as methane and carbon dioxide and the trash itself can be a hazard to humans and wildlife. The space left for landfill is running out– and more landfill sites will need to be created.

So, we want to encourage you to recycle and reuse as much as you can. At school, buy recycled or sustainable products such as BE books and Tru-Green envelopes, re-use unwanted print-outs as sketch or note paper and then recycle them, Buy equipment in bulk to reduce packaging and deliveries, and set up a recycling scheme for all those lunch time bottles and cans.  We welcome any more ideas you might have to reduce, reuse and recycle.
Wildlife Watch is a great website for kids and grown ups to learn about how to reduce wastage and rubbish by playing games and checking out some great eco facts. Take a look today!

We have more of your great eco-tips: This time, gardening! Please click the link below to see our favourites.  Thank you for all your entries! This finishes our eco tips competition, we would like to say a big thank you to all who entered and we loved reading all your tips. We hope you will follow some of the tips you posted!

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Here are some more of our favourite eco-tips with our responses, this time to do with an eco friendly lifestyle! We have many things here from picking fruit, not taking the car,  re-using shredded paper and encouraging children to recycle. So have a look and once again a BIG thank you to everyone who submitted these tips to our quoits competition. Simply click the link below to view them! Next and finally on friday we’ll post up our best gardening eco tips. For the meantime, click the link below and  enjoy!

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