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Packaging                                                                                                                                   Reading Recommendations


       When  visiting  most  supermarkets,  Zero waste  shops  encourage
       you will see packaging everywhere,  shoppers to bring  their own

       packaging that has been designed  containers  to  be  refilled  over  and

       to be used once. We can slow down  over again. Products can range from                                                                                 Ellen MacArthur Foundation

       the  consumption  of  resources  by  food  ingredients to shampoos  and
       recycling many items of packaging,  washing  liquids,  with  every  refill                                                              Despairing  at  the  amount  of  litter  in  the  oceans,

       however,  for a long-term  and  having  a  positive  environmental                                                                     the Ellen MacArthur Foundation charity to promote
                                                                                                                                              former sailor Dame Ellen MacArthur has established
       sustainable solution we need to be  impact.
                                                                                                                                                                     a circular economy.
       more circular! How can we do this?
                                                              Recognising  that  refilling  needs  to

       Our potential to innovate solutions  be a convenient option for today’s                                                              Take  a  look  at  their  website  for  some  excellent

                                                                                                                                                             explanations and examples.
       for  our planet  can be  seen  in  lifestyle,  there are  companies
       examples such as the company that  that are working to bring refillable

       created  biodegradable  packaging  versions  of  single use items into

       which  dissolves back into nature  mainstream shops.
       after it has served its purpose.










                                                                                                                                                 My Tree, Our Forest: For Schools

       Circular Packaging at School                                                                                                   An exciting new project is coming in the new school year – the


       Many primary schools across Wales                      Therefore, some schools have made                                  chance to have a small woodland or hedge row planted in your school

       have  noticed  the  vast  amount  of                   the switch to receiving their milk in                                 (consisting of either 60 or 120 trees provided by Woodland Trust).
       plastic  waste  that’s  generated                      glass  milk  bottles  that  are  poured

       from individual plastic milk bottles                   into  reusable  beakers  at school                                 Keep Wales Tidy will visit your school to help with the planting of the

       every day.  Although  most schools                     and returned  to the  dairy  to be                                trees, and educational workshops including from Size of Wales will also

       are  great at recycling  these,  it’s                  used repeatedly. Ysgol Trefonnen in                                                                 be provided. All for free!
       not a long-term solution as plastic                    Powys worked out that they have                                       We’re proud to be supporting Welsh Government’s ‘My Tree, Our

       deteriorates in quality each time it’s                 prevented the use of  a staggering                                                                     Forest ’ programme.

       recycled.                                              21,000  plastic  bottles  a  year  this
                                                              way!                                                                        We have packages for 100 schools so apply now
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