Plastic Free July® is a global movement that helps millions of people be part of the solution to plastic pollution – so we can have cleaner streets, oceans, and beautiful communities. 

There are lots of bits of plastic littering the lovely streets of Enniscorthy, what can you do to help?
- Buy less stuff wrapped in plastic
- If you need to buy it, make sure to put the wrapping in the bin
- Make sure your wheelie bin is secure and the lid is closed properly - you'd be surprised how much plastic can get blown around from household bins.
- Organise a small street clean! It can be a big or small and area as you like, every little helps!

https://www.plasticfreejuly.org/

Wexford Communities 4 Climate Action is a FREE 4 week online course for communities in County Wexford who want to engage practically with climate action and energy efficiency.   Course commences on 18th May 2021, limited places available. 

For a summary of the course click here.  Find out all you need to know in the course handbook.

​To sign up click here - 
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSez4PdJYIr1EgRMTrUcHKMgxhJh7LZWRgAhgmIU8gVPibbQSg/viewform 
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We are delighted to be linking in with the Wexford Environmental Network! 

Wexford Environmental Network is a network of volunteers across county Wexford who care about climate change, biodiversity and building resilient communities.  The netwrok aims to connect people who care about our environment to projects or people they can work with. ​

For more info check out their website!  https://www.wexforden.com/ 

So, we had been doing some really great work before all the madness started back in March. Since November 2019 we had been working with a local school on the mapping project and were all set to have a 'mapping day' in Enniscorthy with the students in April 2020. 

Sadly Covid-19 interrupted our plans for the event, well all our plans for 2020 really, but thats ok. 

The team had taken a little break over the past few months as we felt that people had too much on their plates. However, we are going to start looking at what we can do now and over the next couple of months to help move the work along.

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We are delighted to have received funding for our project for the next year. The funding will support the website, our public events and our upcoming mapping project!

There is lots of work going on in the background and we are looking forward to sharing some news and updates in the coming months!

We have been having lots of conversations over the past few months and have decided that we want to take a step back and make sure that the project is grounded in the local community here in Enniscorthy. 
Rather than just go ahead with all our own ideas of how this might work, we are going to host some workshops in September/October to get input from local business, community groups and children to help us shape the activities for 2020 and beyond. 
The project will focus on three key areas in the coming year, 
Education, Nature and Waste these areas can help us cover a number of the sustainable development goals and are also areas which could provide some interesting,achievable and inclusive action for us to work on in the coming year. 

We are delighted to have Enniscorthy Enterprise and Technology Centre join us in our early stages of development. The Centre have set up a community garden / biodiversity planting around the grounds!

We are also joined by Holos skincare, who have really embraced Goal 12 on sustainable consumption and production. They are going packaging free on orders and are aiming for zero waste to landfill in the production of their products!! Here are some of their activities

"We sell online and have recently invested in a plastic free packaging system. Any plastic/bubblewrap/unsustainable packing product we receive, we re-use rather than throw away and we ask our customers to re-use. Our business neighbours deliver used boxes and shredded paper for packing to us.Moving forward all new product packaging will be plastic free (or as much as is possible).
We use ingredients made from plants in our products. These come in little glass bottles and smell devine. When the bottles are empty, we pass these onto a Sensory Therapist who works with children and adults who have extra needs. 
We buy our ingredients from sustainable farmers all over the world and only work with suppliers that have vegan, cruelty-free ethics at the fore.
We manufacture in small batches so avoid waste." - Niamh from Holos

Doing something every day can be profoundly helpful in giving people hope, and it’s a path to change.
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Over the past few months we have been working on developing the website and the processes and supports behind the 'Pledge'. 
We are working with some local early supporters to test how it will all work before we get ready for a proper launch later this year. 
We'll be keeping you updated via this blog over the next few months!