The power of pledging is helping people across the Highlands to reduce their household waste. 5 out of 6 people find that pledging to take specific action helps them to cut their waste.
More than 500 pledges to take action to cut household waste have been gathered - at schools, in the Eastgate, at events, in the street - as part of RoWAN's Slim Your Bin campaign. RoWAN staff have been busy calling those who joined to find out whether they have followed through on their pledges, and so far from almost 300 responses we're finding that 5 out of 6 say pledging helped "a little", "some" or "a lot".
Here are some typical comments:
"Filling in the pledge form helped me focus"
"The children are learning about waste at school and that's helped me at home"
" The face-to-face chat gave me some great practical advice" Read more
Congratulations to this year's Scarecrow Festival winners! It has been a great Scarecrow Festival with over 848 people voting for their favourite scarecrows. It was a very close finish in the Comical Category with Central Primary School Nursery receiving 374 votes with 1st Tain Guides right behind them with 371 votes! 
The time has come for you to vote for your favourite scarecrow for each category. So have a good look at the 
RoWAN's Scarecrow Festival has begun! Thank you to all of the people who have taken part and made a scarecrow. There are a lot of great scarecrows so please click
The Dingwall Eggstravaganza was certainly a great success! Nearly 100 people came along to the Leisure Centre on Saturday 27th March to take part in compostable crafts, egg decorating and fancy dress. Check out the 
cONGRATULATIONS to our contest winners! There were a lot of entries for both the colouring contest and the egg decorating contest. Faith Elson and Niamh MacKenzie were our colouring contest winners and Michael Urquhart won our decorated egg competition. Click
Easter is another time of the year when a huge amount of waste packaging is produced.
