The project helped citizens in six London boroughs reduce the amount of good food thrown away by 9% between spring 2017 and spring 2019.
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Brentford Recycling Action Group
Minutes of the Meeting held in the
Meeting Room, Brentford Dock
on Tuesday, 5th November 2019
Attending: Patti Horsnell, Hugh Picton, Wendy Mackenzie, Malcolm Crofts, Mary Taft
Continue readingThe Independent newspaper recently published a list of plastic-free tea bags. Here are its picks:
Abel & Cole Indubitably Excellent Organic Earl Grey (The Independent‘s top pick)
Brew Tea Company Earl Grey
Clipper Organic Tea
Hampstead Tea Whole Leaf Home Compostable Pyramids
We Are Tea English Breakfast Tea
Eteaket Royal Earl Grey Tea Bags
Nemi Tea Green Tea
T2 French Earl Grey Teabag Gift Cube
Roqberry
Pukka Herbs
Good & Proper Tea
Twinings Loose Leaf Pyramid Bag
Teapigs Everyday Brea Tea Bags
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Brentford Recycling Action Group
Minutes of Meeting held in the Meeting Room, Brentford Dock, on Tuesday 1st October 2019
Attending: Patti Horsnell, Douglas Benford, Hugh Picton, Catharine Browne, Virginia Fassnidge, Wendy Mackenzie, Malcolm Crofts, Rukmini West, Mary Taft
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Minutes of Meeting held in the
Meeting Room, Brentford Dock
on Tuesday 3rd September 2019
Attending: Patti Horsnell, Douglas Benford, Hugh Picton, Catharine Browne, Virginia Fassnidge, Malcolm Crofts, Rukmini West Continue reading
Two smartphone apps have made it easier to find places to refill your portable water bottle while on the go.
To find your nearest refill point, download the Refill app, or click on this link, which asks you to input your mobile number to receive the link for the Tap app.
Brentford Recycling Action Group
Minutes of Meeting held at
Meeting Room, Brentford Dock
on Wednesday 7th August 2019
Attending: Patti Horsnell, Douglas Benford, Hugh Picton, Virginia Fassnidge, Wendy Mackenzie, Malcolm Crofts, Rukmini West, Mary Taft Continue reading
Hounslow Council wants to create a borough where residents feel proud to live and work and which is clean, green and sustainable. In June 2019 the borough council declared a climate emergency. This committed the council to develop a climate emergency action plan by December 2019, setting out how the council will work towards becoming carbon neutral, and ultimately zero carbon, as soon as possible. Continue reading
BRAG, Friends of the Earth and Disability Network Hounslow will be some of the groups taking part in the Festival for the Environment in Brentford on Saturday, 17 August 2019, from 11am to 4pm.
The festival will be held in Market Place, Brentford TW8 8FJ.
Want to help keep Brentford clean and hang out with your councillor at the same time? Then join Councillor Guy Lambert for a volunteer litter pick at 10am on Sunday, 21 July.
The event will start at St Pauls’ Recreation Ground — entrance by St. Paul’s CoE Primary School, at the bendy bit of St Paul’s/Lateward Roads. It will cover the park and surrounding footpaths, then Albany Rd to Ealing Rd.
Litter pickers and green Hounslow Highways bags will be provided.
Rail: Brentford.
Bus: E2, 267, 237, 235
