EGG-stra (Events)
(past EGG events in reverse date order)
Feb 8th 2010
What can your organisation do
to help Ellesmere move towards a more sustainable and greener community?
E.G.G.held a forum in the Town Hall to discuss with key members
of the Ellesmere community (including the wider community of villages)
ideas to help Ellesmere go green.
The focus of the evening’s discussions was how to prepare Ellesmere for the challenges of fuel shortages and global warming, and how to make the community more sustainable.
Guest speakers Fran Butler, the District Commissioner for the guides talked of the work the local guides had focused on, and Tony Williams, General Manager of Tudor Griffiths Waste Services described the way their business is developing the handling of waste in a more environmentally efficient way. Mr Williams talked about how, at the moment, enough electricity was being produced from methane from their landfill site to support over 300 houses via the National Grid, and how further development of recycling and a potential biomass digester could continue to solve the local waste problems in the future.
We presented Mr Williams with an EGGcellence Award to TG Waste Services for their work on using landfill methane to produce electricity.
Later in the evening a talk was given by Phil Newcombe, Associate Project Manager of Marches Energy Agency based in Shrewsbury. It was out of the work done by the MEA with Ellesmere as part of their Low Carbon Communities project in 2008 that EGG was formed, and with responsibility for the North Shropshire area Phil is supporting EGG in offering free home energy audits (click here for more information)
At the end of the forum everyone was asked to take an EGG Pledge back to their organisations to pledge some action this year to help Ellesmere Goes Green.
If you are part of a local organisation a representative may have attended the forum, in which case they will hopefully be discussing the Pledge. But if they do not contact us for another copy.
Most of those who attended felt enthusiastic about working together to make Ellesmere go green.
The first EGGcelence Award 17th July 2009
We presented our very first EGGcellence award to Ellesmere Primary School at their end of term assembly.
The award was given in recognition of the pupil's efforts at reducing,reusing and recycling the school waste, and that the school had also installed solar heating for the swimming pool.
Good eggs all of them!
see Awards page
Primary School Fete 11th July 2009
Using the new display boards the group put together a display on the theme of 'What happens to your waste'.
We all know that most of our recyclable waste is collected fortnightly from the roadside in green and black bins, or from the large bins in Ellesmere car park, but do we know where it really goes?
Does it eventually end up as landfill?
The display showed information on what plastics to recycle and a hands on game to sort out the different sorts.
The group research found some interesting information which was condensed for the display.
Full versions will appear on this website at Recycling.
The most interesting outcome was to find that the contents of the green bins (garden and food waste) actually ends up as a commercial compost product which can be purchased locally eg. Morton Park Garden Centre.
Look out for the VitalEarth label, and 'get your own back'
Spring Bulb Give Away
April 7th and 14th 2009
Ellesmere Goes Green representatives spent several hours in the Ellesmere Market Hall on Tuesday the 7th and Tuesday 14th of April in our big 'Spring Bulb Give Away'.
Low-energy light bulbs supplied by Marchers Energy Agency were made freely available to residents of the Ellesmere community and nearly 200 were given away over the two mornings.
Visitors to the stall were asked to complete a questionnaire about their interest in green issues and what they were currently doing to help the environment. The questionnaire, to be rolled out through the town, including to businesses will give E.G.G. a base-line of Ellesmere's concern for green issues and provide the basis for action in the future.
Thank you for all those enthusiasts who took part.
Easter E.G.G. Hunt
April 11th 2009
Green-dyed chicken eggs were placed discretely in shop windows around Ellesmere prior to the hunt each with a word like 'EGG- citing' placed in front. The game was to match each EGG word with the name of the shop in whose window the egg was placed.
Shop keepers expressed great interest and willingness to have an egg in their window and 23 eggs were eventually placed around the shopping centre.
The Old Town Hall was used as a base on the Easter Saturday to set the children off on their hunt. Chocolate Easter eggs were the prize for the most accurate answers.
Unfortunately, probably because of the glorious weather we had few contestants, but those that did get involved enjoyed it enormously and deserved their egg rewards.
Thank you to all the shop keepers who participated.