RICH PICKINGS: Sam Laws, seven, gets a feel for composting at the awareness event at Ouseburn Farm (Picture courtesy of the Newcastle Evening Chronicle)

Newcastle-based green group BAN Waste joined with Recycle Now to encourage people to get involved. They organised two events in Newcastle for Compost Awareness Week, which ran from May 2 until last Saturday.

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Website review

BAN Waste is in the process of updating our website. We are aiming to make it easier to navigate about through restructuring the pages. We are also carrying out a comprehensive update of the content as many sections are a few years out of date, and as such miss out a lot of the good work our volunteers at BAN Waste have done.

As part of this we welcome volunteer members to write, read and supply information that will help to speed this up.

When we ask people what they want to help them reuse, reduce or recycle /compost we often here we want more information. In order to help in this perhaps people could use the get in touch form to tell us of resources or useful; links they use and pass it on to help others.

In the meantime please bear with us if the website or its pages have a few hiccups and please do let us know.

Directory update

Newcastle City Council has added a link to their newly revamped website for BAN Waste's Reduce, Reuse, Repair and Recycling Directory for Newcastle (this might even be a first!).

So we hope you will also go and look and use it. We have a directory feedback form so you can provide new or amended information and we rely on you to keep us informed.

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