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Waste Isn’t Rubbish – Campaign Meeting
Join us on Monday 24 July at 7:15pm on Zoom for our waste campaign planning meeting. The meeting will start with a presentation of what the campaign is about and what we have done so far (a great first meeting for newbies) and there will be plenty of time to ask...
Fashion Revolution Week – What is it and why is it important?
Fashion Revolution Week – What is it and why is it important? Before explaining what Fashion Revolution Week is, it's important to note what fast fashion is and why it is so harmful. Fast fashion is clothing produced at high speed to meet the demands of customers. The...
Don’t Lose Your Bottle: An Update
Our previous Don’t Lose Your Bottle campaign In 2018-19 we ran a campaign called ‘Don’t Lose Your Bottle’ to increase awareness of the problem of single use plastics being littered around the city and ending up in the rivers and later the oceans, causing harm to...
Two parties call for incinerator closure
At the Birmingham Council meeting on January 11th an amendment was moved by Councillor Roger Harmer for Lib Dems and Julien Pritchard for the Green Party, calling for a Zero Waste Strategy that will allow the Tyseley incinerator to close by 2034. This would align...
Green Lane Masjid visit
My reflections; Toqueer Ahmed Quyyam, volunteer with Birmingham Friends of the Earth and Footsteps, and organiser of the Green Lane Masjid visit on 13 October 2021. I was humbled to organise a visit to the Green Lane Masjid. My passion is to bring people together from...
Kerbside Sort Vehicle
We are very pleased to see the Kerb-sort vehicles appearing on the streets. They are creating valuable conversations between the crews and residents about what surplus items can or should be separated and what happens to them. We learned that the crew is not...
