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Green
Machine workshop
THERE’S good news for community groups in Sefton planning
environmental improvement projects. The Community Foundation for
Merseyside is organising an innovative workshop to help local
community and voluntary organisations throughout Sefton, including
Formby, Bootle, Crosby and Southport develop eco-friendly ideas,
plan projects and find out more about the Green Machine campaign and
the grants available.
The morning workshop, sponsored by Barclays, will include practical
advice on organising and running an environmental project, the Green
Machine grants available and applying for the funding. Liverpool
CVS, Merseytravel, Groundwork, MET and Barclays will have stalls at
the event to offer advice and support. Running from 9.30am until
12.30pm on November 21, the workshop is at Blackburne House, off
Hope Street in Liverpool City Centre.
Places are limited and to book a space contact Community Foundation
Donor Services Co-ordinator Niki O’Leary. Tel:- 0151 966 3566. E-mail:-
niki@cfmerseyside.co.uk. The Green Machine is an environmental
campaign developed engage businesses, local organisations and
communities to work together and make lasting environmental
improvements to local neighbourhoods.
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Natural History Museum takes steps to reduce waste this festive
season
THE Natural History Museum has decided to send it’s members a Wishawish.com Ecard this Christmas, instead of sending thousands of
paper cards. Across the country businesses and institutions are
realising that they can save time and money this Christmas, whilst
helping the environment. Corporate Ecards are the environmentally
friendly answer to the usual Christmas greetings campaigns run by
thousands of businesses across the United Kingdom, and a clever way
of reducing the extra costs that getting into the festive spirit can
incur.
The thousands of cards that businesses send their clients each year
require a lot of paper to make, and only very few greetings card
manufacturers are using recycled paper for their cards. It would be
fair to say that recycled paper is not a big focus in the greetings
card industry. The process of making greetings cards can often
include further environmentally damaging processes, such as toxic
printer inks and fixing agents. And then there is the extra mail
weight, adding to the fuel consumption requirements and emissions of
those delivering the cards.
Royal Mail delivers around 150 million cards and packets during the
pre-Christmas period. It is estimated that up to 1 billion Christmas
cards (17 for every man, woman and child) could end up in bins
across the UK. (source: Defra)
“The waste created by sending Christmas cards is becoming more
and more unacceptable now that there is a viable alternative that
will benefit businesses too. Ecards are an interactive greetings
card alternative that double as an effective marketing tool”
says Nikki Algar from Wishawish.com.
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