Plastic-Free Me

05/04/2021

🐣Recycle right this Easter!! 🐰⁠

Did you know aluminium is one of the most recycled materials ever? When it's recycled it doesn't lose any of its properties or qualities and therefore isn't downcycled like plastic or paper, for example. Most aluminium products out there contain some recycled aluminium already.⁠

So this Easter, make sure you recycle every last bit of your chocolate wrapping. Here's how to do it right:⁠
♻️ Eat as much chocolate as you possibly can!!!⁠
♻️ But make sure it's palm oil free (solid Lindt chocolate is the palm oil free I believe, as is Darrell Lea chocolate. Cadbury and Nestle use lots of palm oil unfortunately 😪)⁠
♻️ Collect all the foil wrapping⁠
♻️ Screw them all up together into the biggest ball possible (if it's too small it'll slip through the cracks and won't get recycled)⁠
♻️ Lob it straight into your home recycling bin⁠

Happy Easter (for the weekend!) everyone💚 ⁠

14/02/2021

Happy Valentine’s Day! Here’s some great gift ideas from 💝

14/02/2021

As the worlds biggest single use plastic contributor- They must do better.

Designers and environmentalists have slammed Coca-Cola's efforts to tackle plastic pollution as "greenwashing" and "a huge step backwards in sustainability".

10/02/2021

Wow 😮

The 8th continent is an award-winning piece of architecture designed to be a "living organism".

04/02/2021

It’s day 4 of Plastic-Free Feb... who has taken on the challenge? How are you all getting on in this strange new world?
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Let’s talk about PPE - what plastic-free or low plastic solutions have found to keeping yourself safe from COVID that are also good for the environment? Please share them with us so we can share them too!
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Sorry to share such sad images but with disposables masks and gloves quickly becoming some of the most common single use plastics in our oceans harming wildlife, we must talk about it. If anyone knows photo credit please tag. 🌊

31/01/2021

🚨🌊1 DAY LEFT BEFORE PLASTIC-FREE FEB BEGINS! 🌊🚨

Will you be joining us? 🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊 We all have a part to play in our global plastic problem. Small lifestyle choices to cut out plastics really does make a difference.
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This February, cut down on your single use plastics... which challenge are you taking on? Tag a friend in the comments to challenge them too!
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Send us your photos and tag us using
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Join our Plastic-Free Feb Support Group to share all your top tips and get inspo. Has cutting out those pesky single use plastics been easier or harder now we’re all spending more time at home? Link in bio or go to: https://www.facebook.com/groups/2890707450974758/about/
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The challenge lasts all month! Keep an eye out for our posts and there might even be a competition coming your way...

08/01/2021

Fantastic opportunity for a young person looking to get started in conservation... 🤩

We're pleased to be able to offer a fantastic opportunity to join our team.
We're looking for a young person (aged 17-25 with a full, clean driver license) who is interested in starting a career in nature and conservation as an assistant ranger apprentice.
This role offers a 16 month fixed-term contract working here at Fountains and also at NT Brimham Rocks.

To find out more about this exciting role and how to apply visit:
https://www.findapprenticeship.service.gov.uk/apprenticeship/-566573

Please note that funding for this role is from a private donation to the National Trust specifically for applicants under the age of 25 to create a career for a young person in conservation and nature. The specifications of this donation mean that we can't offer it to anyone over this age. This is permitted by law.

03/01/2021

An important reminder 💕

01/01/2021

2021 is here, lets celebrate the changes and achievements we have made so far and remind ourselves of how far we have yet to go 💪

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29/12/2020

Always celebrating the diversity of our oceans...

“The coelacanth is a rare marine fish that is a living representative of an ancient lineage of formerly common fishes. This and the closely related Indonesian coelacanth have several unique physical characteristics that few or no other living species have. Coelacanths were thought to be extinct for tens of millions of years, so the discovery of this species in the 1930s and the subsequent discovery of the Indonesian coelacanth in the 1990s represent some of the most significant natural history discoveries of recent times.

Coelacanths live in deep waters off of southeastern Africa. Only once fishers started fishing deeper and deeper was this species discovered. Before that time, this entire family of fishes was only known from fossils. Coelacanths reach lengths over 6.5 feet (2 m) and are nocturnal predators. They spend daylight hours hiding in caves and other dark spaces and hunt small bony fishes, squids, and other invertebrates at night. This species is noted for its limb-like fins. The coelacanth, the Indonesian coelacanth, and the lungfishes together make up a group known as the lobe-finned fishes. Their fins are attached to short limbs rather than directly to the body like in most species. These species are the closet fish relatives to the tetrapods. In fact the lobe-finned fishes are more closely related to the tetrapods than to the other fishes. Live coelacanths have been observed using their lobed fins in a paddle-like fashion, almost as if they are walking through the water column.

The coelacanth and Indonesian coelacanth are the only two vertebrates that have a jointed skull. This adaptation apparently allows them to open their mouths wider than they would be able to otherwise, improving their predation ability. Coelacanths reproduce via internal fertilization and give birth to relatively well-developed live young. As soon as they are born, juvenile coelacanths do not receive any further parental care and are ready to begin a predatory lifestyle.”

27/12/2020

Heartbreaking...

‘It's like having a cyborg baby, no longer composed only of human cells’, experts say

27/12/2020

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