Montgomery Environment Group - MEG

21/08/2026

Excellent analogy 👌

17/08/2026

We had a good day at the Show on Saturday, thank you to everyone that came and talked to us on our stall.

As usual, we managed the waste and recycing bins for the show and gathering litter, with the help of Montgomery Rainbows, Brownies and Guides. Thank you to all the girls that helped.

People are getting better each year at sorting and separating the waste into the correct bins. To help us improve, the three steps that would help us even further (for future events) are:

1. Please empty cups and bottles of any liquid before you put it in the bin. If the drink is water based it can be put on the nearest bit of grass. If cups and bottles are put in with liquid in, firstly it makes the bins heavier to handle, and second, we get mixed drinks emptying onto our shoes as we are handling and emptying them.

2. Please don't stuff different materials together, for instance pushing paper serviettes into plastic cups, or ice cream tubs into plastic cups. We have to go through and pull these apart to put them in the correct bins.

3. Please try to not put food in the non-food waste bins. We end up with a lot of food in the paper and card bin especially, put in with the paper plates. It helps us a lot if the food can be knocked off in the food waste bin before putting the paper plate in the paper bin. if the plate is fairly clean it can go in with the paper, if it has food stuck to it, it needs to go in with the food waste.

Overall we are streets ahead of where we were a few years ago, all helping to make Wales 2nd only to Austria in the world ranking of recycling performance.

Thank you all for being willing to help our joint effort on this.

15/08/2026

🎪 What a great day we had at Montgomery Show today 🎪

🚲🚲 Brett was here with his free bikes 🚲🚲 He handed over his *1,100th bike* today - AMAZING - thank you Brett 🎉👏

Thank you to our local MP Steve Witherden for Montgomeryshire & Glyndŵr for supporting local events and issues important to us.

♻️🗑️ Many people remembered to put their rubbish into the right bins so most of it can be recycled 🗑️♻️
🟦 🗒️📰🗞️Blue bins for clean paper and card 🗞️📰🗒️🟦
🟥 🥫🥛Red bin for cans, tins and hard plastic (emptied bottles, plastic tubs, etc) 🥛🥫🟥
🟩🩵🍾 Green / aqua bins for glass 🍾🩵🟩
🟪 🛍️Purple bins for soft plastics 🟪
🗑️ 🥒🌮🍽️Dustbin for food waste and dirty compostable plates/cutlery 🍽️🌮🥒🗑️
🥫Can crusher to reduce some of the volume of waste🥫
◼️👎 Black bins for non-recyclable - this should only be used if things can't be recycled! It fills up land or gets burnt👎◼️

🛠️ Repair Cafe - Next one on Sunday 13th February 🛠️

🧰🗜️📚🪚 Library of Things - Share tools and other items with locals - also for selling locally and raising money for local charity of your choice - www.sharing.canol.cymru 🪚📚🗜️🧰

15/08/2026

🎪 Come and see us at Montgomery Show today 🎪

🚲🚲 Brett is here with his free bikes 🚲🚲

♻️🗑️ Please remember to put your rubbish into the right bin (as this has to be hand sorted later on if you don't) 🗑️♻️

🟦 🗒️📰🗞️Blue bins for clean paper and card 🗞️📰🗒️🟦
🟥 🥫🥛Red bin for cans, tins and hard plastic (bottles, tubs, etc) 🥛🥫🟥
🟩🩵🍾 Green / aqua bins for glass 🍾🩵🟩
🟪 🛍️Purple bins for soft plastics 🟪
🗑️ 🥒🌮🍽️Dustbin for food waste and dirty compostable plates/cutlery 🍽️🌮🥒🗑️
🥫Can crusher to reduce some of the volume of waste🥫
◼️👎 Black bins for non-recyclable - please only use this if things really can't be recycled!👎◼️

🛠️ Repair Cafe 🛠️

🧰🗜️📚🪚 Library of Things www.sharing.canol.cymru 🪚📚🗜️🧰

04/08/2026

Our cordless Mountfield mower was donated by a resident, and a new battery was purchased for us by Benthyg, with funding from Viridor.

I've tested it in the Clinton's Community Orchard and it worked a treat.

Reserve it on https://sharing.canol.cymru/

https://www.benthyg-cymru.org/

04/08/2026

Another item added to the Montgomery Library of Things, a Black and Decker Workmate donated to the library.

If you are getting rid of anything that you think would be useful in our Library of Things, please do consider donating it rather than throwing it away.

Take a look at what else is there, at https://sharing.canol.cymru/

21/07/2026

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16/07/2026

For secondary school teachers looking for resources about climate change and related topics for next term...

Free climate change education resources for young people and adults to learn how to prepare for and respond to climate change in the UK and beyond.

16/07/2026

16/07/2026

We need to do all we can to avoid more extreme weather phenomena like these and act urgently on climate change.

"Today,... these clouds have been seen over the increasingly devastating wildfires happening in Australia, California, Spain, Greece and Siberia."

"If, by 2030, we cut our carbon emissions in about half – and, by 2050, we don’t emit any more carbon emissions than the planet can absorb each year – scientists predict that we can avoid the worst threats of climate change.
Summarized from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Special Report, Global Warming of 1.5°C (https://www.ipcc.ch/sr15/)" https://climate.mit.edu/what-can-be-done-about-climate-change

We don't have to do everything or perfectly but every little thing you can do will help. Here are some ideas of what you can do:
https://www.imperial.ac.uk/stories/climate-action/amp-index.html

https://www.un.org/en/actnow/ten-actions

https://kids.nationalgeographic.com/nature/save-the-earth/article/13-ways-to-save-the-earth-from-climate-change

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20181102-what-can-i-do-about-climate-change

Mega-firestorms are erupting around the globe. And we’re not prepared