2024 Climate Heroes Community Challenge
Climate Heroes is a team-based online fun community challenge organised by Global Action Plan which runs from 15 to 26 April 2024. The challenge involves logging climate actions on a web app and competing with other community groups. The pre-set climate actions are organised into themes - Goods & Services, Food, Energy, Transport & Habits. The team with the lowest Carbon Dioxide Equivalent (CO2E) wins and there are awards for the Top Three Community Groups.
Sustainable Enniscorthy has registered a team to take part in the challenge.
Please join the Sustainable Enniscorthy team by clicking on this link - https://tinyurl.com/ClimateHeroes2024 and use the team invite code: 825461
Register your account or log in if you have participated before and join the team as guided using the invite code. You can start logging your climate friendly actions on Monday 15th of April. If you need any support go to www.climateheroes.ie and chat with the team in Global Action Plan there. Lets Go!
Or you can register your own team at www.climateheroes.ie.
59 AA batteries recycled this weekend.
Hi all one of our volunteers (Marie) recycled a whopping 50 aluminium cans today from a litter pick! @Dearbhla how much do these weigh per unit etc?!? Would be great if we could include. 4 of us did a pick on the Mill Rd to red pats cross. Marie kids helped with the recycling!!!!
That’s brilliant Marie & Jonathan & the two little helpers. I calculate 16g per can, so 800g of aluminium recycled. I will of course add this in to our total. Recycling aluminium takes 95% less energy than creating cans from new raw materials, so it saves a massive amount of energy as well as preventing unnecessary littering. Well done all.
In the last week of December 2023 (23-31/12/23), Enniscorthy Tidy Towns volunteers collected & recycled from numerous litter picks during the Christmas holiday:
564 cans
273 plastic bottles
99 plastic cups
73 glass bottles
44 vapes
15 bags of rubbish.
Well done. Massive!
34 batteries recycled
Final Step of Greenplan: awaiting our certificate and information about the trees planted for Sustainable Enniscorthy will be included on the certificate.
Jonathan from Enniscorthy Tidy Towns entered a photo from our Slaney Kayak & Cleanup event in September for a Wexford Volunteer photo competition for their community calendar. The photo won a place in the calendar & we won a €50 one4all voucher & a framed photo & certificate. Siobhán & I collected the prize at an award ceremony in Wexford on 8 December. Well done to Jonathan for entering the competition & thanks to everyone who voted for our photo.
Enniscorthy Tidy Towns volunteers have collected & recycled 692 aluminium cans, 170 plastic bottles, 20 glass bottles & 25 vapes from multiple litter picks every weekend since 26/11/2023. Well done all. With the new deposit return scheme (DRS) in 2024 this would be worth about €130! Fingers crossed the DRS will reduce littering of these recyclables in 2024.
Return trip to Dublin by bus 🚌 saving a 203 km car 🚗 journey.
On day trip to Dublin… left the car at home. On the fabulous Wexford Bus… lovely journey. Saving 272 km in diesel. Saving in excess of €20 in parking charges. Double win!
Well done Siobhán. You said it - double win for environment & your pocket.
We’re delighted to have a lovely, professional short video showcasing The GreenPlan on ChangeX for which Sustainable Enniscorthy won its #KeepWexfordBeautiful environmental award recently from Wexford County Council. Watch it on https://youtu.be/fY_6gQ2tkko?si=1eKTE8NdqrWGK9EM
Enniscorthy Tidy Towns volunteers Phil & Seán collected & recycled the following from 3 litter picks over 3 days, 19, 20, 21 November after a large local funeral. 82 cans, 50 plastic bottles, 16 glass bottles, 21 cigarette boxes & 6 vapes. Well done Phil & Seán.
Over 100 kg of aluminium & plastic recycled from litter picks as part of the Green Plan. Full details of all activities to date at the link below.
29/10/23: Enniscorthy Tidy Towns volunteers Jonathan, Jessica, Robin, Siún, Lily & Phil collected & recycled 117 cans, 15 plastic bottles, 16 glass bottles & 6 vapes.
5/11/23: Enniscorthy Tidy Towns volunteers Jonathan, Gary, Natalie, Dearbhla, Lily, Jessica, Siún, Marie, Ava & ? Collected & recycled 220 cans, 145 plastic bottles, 19 glass bottles & a pair of runners!
