Tips for December

  • Make your own Christmas wrapping paper using recyclable brown paper, reuse gift paper and bags.

  • Use the Church Eco Christmas card board to cut down on cards and support our local food bank or charity of your choice by donating the money you have saved.

Tips for November

  • Drink water instead of sweetened drinks and carry your own reusable water bottle.

  • Use a reusable cup made from recycled materials when you are on the go, e g. in church or out for a coffee. This reduces waste and cuts down on church volunteers washing up time and energy.

Tips for August

  • Try to buy UK grown produce that is in season. The meals on our plates will have clocked up fewer ‘food miles’ (and lower carbon emissions) than items flown thousands of miles to fill our supermarket shelves.

Tips for July

  • Buy a water butt to collect and save rain water to water plants.

  • Reuse plastic plant pots and be creative by putting plants into recycled items. e. g. old boots, tin cans, old pans and buckets, etc.

Tips for June

  • Keep used carrier bags, reusable shopping bags in your car/handbag so you will not have to buy a new one or continue adding to the waste plastic mountain.

  • Avoid buying pre packed food with unnecessary packaging.

Tips for May

  • Bulk buy and batch cook and then freeze in portion sizes, reduce carbon emissions used when shopping, save time and reduce gas/electric usage.

  • Do meal plans to avoid waste.

  • Buy ethically sourced, local produce if you can.

Tips for April

  • Spring cleaning in the garden involves getting rid of any winter debris like weeds, mould and dead plants. Making the gardening sustainable is not always pretty. Keep an area of the garden messy and natural to attract local wildlife.

  • Make a bug house using garden materials, leaves, logs, moss.

  • Compost garden waste

Tips for March

  • Make your spring cleaning more eco friendly by choosing chemical free products.

  • Make use of white vinegar, lemons, bicarbonate of soda, tea tree oil, etc.

  • Beeswax nourishes wood and protects from spills, much better than sprays containing carcinogens.

  • Don’t always reach for the vacuum, use a broom with natural bristles and shake rugs and mats outside.

Tips for January 2024

  • Do not throw wearable clothing away, alter them to keep them for longer.

  • Buy good quality clothing so that is lasts longer and look for sustainable brands that limit the impact of production and are not transparent about their supply chains.

  • Give unwanted clothing to worthy charities to be used again.

Tips for November

*Use organic cleaning products. The harmful chemicals found in most cleaning products are not only harmful to the environment but to us as well.

Remember you can make your own window cleaner using white vinegar, warm water and tea tree oil.

Tips for June

  • Buy a water butt to collect and save rain water to water plants.

  • Re use plastic plant pots and be creative by putting plants into recycled items, e.g. old boots, tin cans, old pans and buckets.

  • Create bug hotels

Tips for May

  • Bulk buy and batch cook and then freeze in portion sizes, reduce carbon emissions for collection, saves time, reduces gas/electric usage.

  • Compost kitchen scraps to feed your next generation veggies, reduces cost o buying compost and reduces fossil fuels to transport food waste.