Join the Chase Meadow Zero Waste Facebook Group - here

Chase Zero Waste (a sub-group of CMRA) aims to help us all make small changes in how we live to have a positive impact on our local community and our planet through education and raising awareness on how to reduce, reuse and recycle. For information, advice and tips on how to achieve this join the group via this link.

Recycle tablet bottles, tablet blister packs, inhalers, oral products and packaging. Find out how here.

Recycle Pens

Ryman Stationers offer pen recycling which they convert into charity donations. The nearest Rymans is at 98 The Parade

Leamington Spa, CV32 4AQ

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Find out how cleaning your clothes affects the environment here

Toilet Paper!

Whatever we consume will have an impact on our environment. The message is always to reduce consumption wherever possible. Raising awareness of our impact can help us to make decisions about what we buy and how much we use. Try and buy toilet paper made in the UK from recycled paper. This might mean searching online for the best product and price. Hopefully, most of these products will not be wrapped in plastic! To avoid the plastic and minimise transport miles, try to buy local – there are a couple of independent shops in our area which supply them (and will deliver them too).

As to whether the next best option is bamboo paper which has been transported from far away or paper using virgin pulp that is destroying forests…. we will leave that up to you to choose. The same decision-making process applies to kitchen roll and tissues.

It takes time to read labels while shopping so that we can make informed choices, but it is worth it. Every small change we make really does make a difference and, as ever, we can only do our best!

Find out more here.

Slim Your Bin

Slim Your Bin is a campaign helping residents of Warwickshire to waste less and recycle more in order to slim their rubbish bins. Find more information and to join the scheme here.

Sainsbury's Reducing Plastic

Sainsbury's now encourage people to take their own containers for fish, meat and deli products- so reducing the need to use plasticised paper bags.

Remember, all plastic bags, cucumber plastic and other plastic, eg from multipack items can be put in the carrier bag receptacle at Sainsbury's supermarkets. This includes garden compost bags. It all goes in with all the plastic packaging from the stores' incoming goods and is sent to a plant in Leicester to make it into the 10p plastic carrier bags. The 10p goes to local charity- last year it was Myton Hospice. So don't put your plastic bags in general waste- pop it in your shopping bag for your next Sainsbury's trip.

Inhaler Recycling

Recycle your inhaler at Day Lewis Pharmacy, Narrow Hall Meadow. Find out more about the recycling scheme here.

Love Food, Hate Waste

It takes water, energy, fuel and packaging to produce the food we all love and buy. Does it really belong in the bin? Half of the food we throw away can be eaten, keeping it out of the bin is good for our pockets and the planet combined. Find out more here.

Refill your water bottle for free!

There are a number of local businesses that will refill your water bottle for free with tap water. Look out for this symbol and download the app to find the shops when you are out and about .

Repair Cafes

Items such as bicycles, small electrical items, garden tools, toys, clothes, sewing machines, furniture, jewellery, picture frames, ornaments, etc can be repaired at a local repair shop.:

Warwick - Facebook page, Sydenham, Leamington Spa - Facebook page or Southam - Facebook page. Find more general information about repair shops here.

Bishops Tachbrook Recycling Hub

Find out more here

Recycle tablet bottles, tablet blister packs, inhalers, oral products and packaging. Find out how here.

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