The Sustainability Group of St Martins have been very busy recently, focusing on their current goals of Life on Land and Climate Action (UN Sustainable Development Goals)
3 members of the group and two members of Marshalls Waste (marshallswaste.co.uk) organised a litter pick and took a walk along the river at Bishopbridge to help make a difference, clean up, and give back to the local area. They collected all sorts of rubbish, such as cans, bottles, needles, clothing, a pair of shoes, and lots of sweet wrappers. 5 large bags were collected and kindly taken away by Marshalls to their local waste transfer station.
It was shocking to see the amount of waste that was found in such a small area, and the team are determined to continue trying to combat litter in the local area, which is very harmful to the environment, and are planning to do another litter pick later within the next few months.
Earlier in the month, the group organised an educational session with Lush in Chantry Place Norwich, and spoke to the team about animal testing, sustainable farming of ingredients for products, and plastic recycling.
Did you know…
- Lush hasn’t produced any new plastics for their products since 2014/2016
- Even if a product has the ‘no animal testing’ icon on the packing (as that particular product hasn’t been tested on animals), it doesn’t mean that the companies that produced the product don’t test on animals.
- Lush audits every supplier that they work with and makes sure that every company they associate with has never tested on animals.
- One of their shampoo bars is equivalent to 3 plastic bottles of shampoo.
