Community News and Events: Tain

Tain Pupils make a Drama out of Waste

Submitted on Wed, 10/02/2010 - 4:27pm

Lunchtimes at Tain Royal Academy are full of drama – and the drama is full of rubbish. Pupils in the lunchtime drama group, run by teacher and writer Peter Whitely, are tackling the subjects of waste and consumption in a play titled “Pieces of String too Short to be Useful”.

The aim of the piece is to get secondary school audiences thinking about the connections between the things they consume, the waste they produce and the effect this has on landfill and on climate change.

In a series of short sketches, pupils look at typical consumer items – a mobile phone, a Tshirt, hair products – and examine why we always want more, better, newer replacements.

Peter Whitely explained “How many of our choices are truly individual, and how much are we all influenced by fashion and advertising? Under the guise of “decluttering” we can end up throwing out items which are perfectly all right, filling up landfill sites and adding to our carbon footprint in the process.” Read more

New Year Resolution? Pledge to 'Slim Your Bin'

Submitted on Fri, 01/01/2010 - 9:51am

So far, over 100 people have pledged to Slim Your Bin Logo 'Slim Your Bin'. You too, can be part of the waste solution. Click here to fill in short survey and  pledge to Slim Your Bin  (takes a couple of minutes)  or click here to make a quick pledge (20secs). Alternatively, you can download a copy of the survey and pledge and return it to us or phone or text us and we’ll get back to you. Read more

Meet RoWAN at Taste of Tain

RoWAN will be having a "Love Food Hate Waste" stall at Taste of Tain and we look forward to meeting you there. There will be lots of stalls and cookery demonstrations.

 

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Where & When

Sat, 14/11/2009 - 12:00pm - 5:00pm
Duthac Centre, Tain

Highland Hospice

Highland Hospice depends on the income from it's nine shops to help meet the high fundraising goals each week. Shops include one in Tain, Inverness and Alness.

Donations of high quality new or used clothing, bedding, bric-a-bric and non electric house hold items are always gratefully received. You can drop off such goods at your local shop, or at the Store, located at 8 Harbour Road, Inverness.

Links: 
http://www.highlandhospice.org

Stirling Fibre

Stirling Fibre at Evanton collects paper and cardboard from businesses around Ross-shire & Inverness from around a 60mile radius. Charges for a weekly collection start from £40 per month and they do one off collections from £15. Currently they collect from Dingwall Mondays & Thursdays, include Evanton, Alness, Invergordon, Tain on a Tuesday collection round, Invergordon on the Thursday, Ullapool on a Friday (fortnightly in the winter) and a daily collection in Inverness. Phone them for quote and to confirm collection days.

Phone Numbers: 
+44 (0)1349 830 205
Links: 
http://www.stirlingfibre.co.uk

Tain Gathering

Submitted on Fri, 14/08/2009 - 9:23am

Little Wrigglers wormery provided by Master Composter volunteer Heather, proved a popular attraction for both grown ups and children. The worms digest food waste and turn this into useful compost.

Many local and overseas visitors came to the RoWAN stall and it was great to hear several tell of how they have stopped throwing out so much waste. One visitor said, 'Stopping doing a weekly shop and just shopping each day for what we need really has reduced our food waste and saved us money'.

Event Link: 
Tain Gathering

Reducing Waste in Tain

Reducing Waste in Tain

Tain Gathering

waste warriorRoWAN will be on hand to offer advice on how to compost and offer other waste reduction advice including chances to enter competitions, try out our waste reduction pledge board, slim your bin or food waste diary and much more. Come visit us and meet Waste Warrior too.

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Where & When

Thu, 13/08/2009 - 10:00am

Golspie Recycling and Environmental Action Network (GREAN)

Golspie Recycling and Environmental Action Network (GREAN) runs a kerbside recyclates collection service in East and Central Sutherland on behalf of Highland Council. In addition it has a Community Garden, a Community Composting site, a bring site for recyclates, and a bicycle reclamation project.  Training placements are provided for a variety of trainees.

Phone Numbers: 
+44 (0)1408 634 253
Links: 
http://www.grean.co.uk
Email Addresses: 
grean@btconnect.com
Address: 
Unit 7, Industrial Estate, Golspie, Sutherland, KW10 6RN.

Waste Audits in Ross-shire schools

Submitted on Sun, 02/08/2009 - 10:43am

Alness AcademyRoWAN has recently helped pupils and staff carry out 'waste audits' in Dingwall Academy and Primary, Ullapool High and St Duthus, Craighill and Bridgend Primary Schools. Through these audits we help pupils look at how much and what type of waste their school produces in a day and then plan how to reduce the waste through various activities.