Transcript Jo Bennison

Jo Bennison
Waste Aware North
East
[email protected]
Tel: 07815 754931
WANE Work Streams
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Waste Minimisation
Education and working with Schools
Community Engagement
NEW – Business Waste
Waste Minimisation
Love Food Hate Waste
North East
• Partners include:
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Durham County Council
Newcastle City Council
North Tyneside Council
Northumberland County Council
WRAP
WANE
Waste Minimisation
Love Food Hate Waste
North East
• Action plan developed.
• The campaign will be co-ordinated by
WANE and delivered by all partners
• Central theme of the campaign is a
Left over recipe competition and the
production of a North East Cookbook
Education and working with Schools
Schools Against Waste
•RIEP funded project in partnership with Newcastle City
Council and Waste Aware North East.
•Aimed at changing the behaviour of school children of all
ages in the North East with regards to waste.
• Will be focused around the development of an online
education resource available free of charge to all schools in
the North East.
•If you would like to input your thoughts in to the project
please contact myself or Ben Grant
[email protected]
Community Engagement
Community Recycling Network
North East
• WANE has gained funding to establish a
CRNNE through the Third Sector Capacity
Fund.
• The funding will be used to employ a full
time Co-ordinator and develop a network.
• RENEW are contributing match funding to
the project to produce a 3-year business
plan, map the community waste sector and
develop projects that the Co-ordinator will
deliver.
Business Waste and Packaging
Business Waste
• WANE are currently developing a new
work stream that will focus on
reducing the waste produced by the
regions businesses.
• We would welcome your ideas and
thoughts on our approach.
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