What the Energy Group think about waste

Waste (and especially plastic waste) is much in the news at the moment and so the energy group decided to focus on that for their last meeting. I think many of you will be interested who didn't come to the meeting: this post is based on the minutes I have recorded. Blanca, Margaret, Bill and I (Nicola) had all prepared some material to discuss.

Blanca – how to reduce your household waste to very little

The waste hierarchy is conventionally Reduce, Reuse, Recycle, Recover but Blanca has expanded this with some R’s on the front: Reflect (think) – Reject – Reduce – Reuse – Repair.

Blanca and her partner tracked their waste for a month and managed to get it down to an impressively small volume as shown in this picture.

This is the tiny amount of waste that Blanca and her partner generated in one month. Impressive!

Why should I fill in a survey about car clubs?

You may be wondering why Transition Cambridge now has a project (CleanWheels) promoting transport by car - and asking you to fill in a survey about it. Aren’t we supposed to avoid travelling by car completely? Public transport, cycling and walking have less carbon emissions than cars and have other advantages to. So what is going on?