8/10: Enniscorthy Tidy Towns volunteers gathered & recycled 105 plastic bottles, 175 cans & 15 glass bottles.

I took the bus to Dublin today too. Unfortunately I collected no medals but I did save some carbon with a 240km trip on shared public transport rather than travelling on my own in a car.

Train and bus day today. Myself and Billy were off the National tidy towns awards! Silver for Enniscorthy!!! Enniscorthy to Connolly approx 126km. We got the bus home 120km so 246km In total

1 October 2023: 151 aluminium drinks cans, 5 glass bottles & 90 plastic bottles collected & recycled this morning by Enniscorthy Tidy Towns Volunteers Phil, Marie, Claudia & Dearbhla on the weekly litter pick.

Our Slaney Kayak & Cleanup on Saturday 23 September with Enniscorthy Tidy Towns & GoPaddle was a great success. 27 people took part on the water and more took part on the bank to help get all the rubbish collected from the Slaney out of the kayaks & bagged for collection by Wexford County Council. Thanks to all involved. We hope to run this again next year. The feedback was great.

466 cans, 21 glass bottles & 61 plastic bottles collected on litter pick with Enniscorthy Tidy Towns volunteers Marie, Claudia & Jono today. All recycled. I’ve got recycling repetitive strain! 😝

23 garments recycled (19 to charity shop & 4 to recycle bin). Hopefully some of them will be worn again by others.

A further 406 aluminium cans from this mornings litter pick ( with Dearbhla, Jonathan and Gary,Liz,Phil & Claudia from Tidy Towns)
We could be scrap metal dealers at this rate!

622 cans recycled from Enniscorthy Tidy Town litter pick today with Marie & Gary.

21 items for recycling to charity shop

9 items of clothing recycled to a charity shop on Friday & another 2 to drop in tomorrow

Natalie & Marie & I on Enniscorthy Tidy Towns litter pick this morning recycled 76 aluminium cans & 15 glass bottles. I took 39 plastic bottles home to recycle. Plus Natalie took more plastic bottles home to recycle. ♻️

I recently borrowed the Home Energy Saving Kit from Enniscorthy Library and I'd highly recommend you add your name to the waiting list at the library to get a loan of the kit!

The kit includes a fridge/freezer thermometer, temperature & humidity meter, radiator key, thermal leak detector, plug-in energy monitor. There's also info on how to monitor water flow rates, a manual and a workbook to fill in your results which you can keep.

Only issue for me was that the 10 day limit of the loan flew by. But there is a long waiting list so appreciate you need to use what you can and pass on without delay!

Roadside clean / litter pick recycled waste total to date:
682 plastic bottles = 13,640 kg plastic +
1, 536 aluminium cans = 24,576 kg aluminium
= 38.216 kg recycled
= 76 points (10 points for 5kg)
+ 216 glass bottles/jars

Marie Stoneham topping the aluminium leaderboard with 484 cans recycled !
Fiona & Cherryorcard cleanup topping the plastic leaderboard with 250 plastic bottles recycled
Well done all. That’s a lot of valuable aluminium & plastic recycled & reused.

49 plastic bottles collected with Marie last Sunday & Billy today. 53 cans & 6 glass bottles recycled at Island Road after litter pick today. (no photographic evidence, but Billy is my witness!)