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Newsletter January – February 2025

Welcome to the January & February 2025 issue of our E-Newsletter full of news, views and information.

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Repair Cafe Saves 6Tonnes CO2 in 2024

We held 9 instead of 10 Repair Cafes in 2024, because of having to cancel the November one due to snow. During those 9 sessions a total of 285 items..

Hard to Recycle Bins

‘Hard to Recycle’ bins update

Sadly the Terracycle scheme that our ‘Hard to Recycle’ bins are part of has announced that they can no longer accept plastic writing implements, so unfortunately we will no longer..

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2 days ago

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We’re delighted to be working with Buxton Library. As well as the free Nature Tots sessions, Transition Buxton’s Library of Things occupies an area in the library where we loan out things instead of books. Fees are nominal, so borrow don’t buy stuff you only need occasionally. Check out the very varied inventory of over 120 items: buxtonlibraryofthings.myturn/library/Our 17 Nature Tots children enjoyed their stories, puzzles and play today. Some of them were wearing their wildlife and flowers too! See you next week. Buxton Library, Kents Bank Road. Tuesdays 10 to 11 (free to attend, no need to book - the library opens 9.30am and you can stay after the session too). ... See MoreSee Less
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3 days ago

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We share the concerns of our colleagues about the poor decisions of Meta to remove fact checking and reduce the safety of social media activity. We left X soon after the ownership and name change.We are now exploring setting up a BlueSky account and will let you know when you can join us there. However, as Facebook is currently our most effective tool for communicating with our supporters and local community we will not be going dark here for the time being.🚨 Important Announcement: big changes ahead🌍 We’re joining #LightsOutMETA: From now until January 26th, we’re logging out of all Meta platforms to protest their new direction, which no longer aligns with our values of community, inclusion and climate action. Learn more about our principles here: transitionnetwork.org/about-the-movement/what-is-transition/principles-2/🐦 We’re also stopping posting on X (Twitter). After careful reflection, we’ve decided to stop posting there for the same reasons. The platform’s new direction doesn’t reflect what we stand for.But this isn’t goodbye—it’s a new chapter. Let’s stay connected! 👉 We invite you to follow our new Bluesky account: bsky.app/profile/transition-network.bsky.social👉 And join our Transition Platform to stay directly connected: hub.transition-space.org/We believe in healthier, more supportive communication spaces where we can truly thrive together 💚 ... See MoreSee Less
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3 days ago

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Our 'Hard to Recycle' bins in shops, schools, and churches around town are part of a big global scheme known as 'Terracycle'. The things that we can process through this scheme keep changing to reflect increased alternative options for recycling becoming available. The biggest change last year was NO MORE CRISP PACKETS, or CONFECTIONARY PACKAGING as these can now go in the plastic recycling bins / cages in supermarkets, and NO MORE WRITING IMPLEMENTS (we are hopeful Rymans will soon reopen their scheme to take these). Now we have been informed NO MORE DENTAL PRODUCTS (toothpaste tubes can be recycled in Boots but you need their app). Our bins will remain in place to collect; Pringles tubes, wax bread bags, tea & coffee packaging (foil bags), cheese wrappers, and washing powder plastic packaging. We also accept buscuit wrappers and used disposable gloves which we pass onto others who have routes to recycle them. We will let you know if this list changes again in due course.Please only put items that we can process in our bins. Your support and collaboration are appreciated. ... See MoreSee Less
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