Following up on the Say NO to Plastic Bags campaign, Park Street Stores has decided to stop providing plastic carrier bags altogether. Customers who arrive without their own re-usable bags will be offered a cardboard box to take away their groceries - and this serves another purpose - it cuts down the amount of cardboard rubbish that the shop has to chuck out each day! (more…)

With thanks to the team members past and present who have contributed to the list of major and minor achievements of the Village Green Teams organisation:

• ALL ABOUT RUBBISH meeting in March 2006
• MIND THE GAP meeting about insulation 28th June 2006
• ALTERNATIVE ENERGY workshop 7th October 2006
• VIRIDOR RE-CYCLING PLANT visit October 2006
• PERFECT BLUE BIN POSTER produced by Green Teams
• BATTERY BOXES IN STOKE BY NAYLAND CHURCH & POLSTEAD
• RE-CYCLING COLLECTION POINT for bikes & tools IN POLSTEAD.
• Al Gore’s film AN INCONVENIENT TRUTH shown twice at Polstead.
• 10 EASY GREEN STEPS POSTER produced by Green Teams
• Visit to the inspiring HADLEIGH ECO SCHOOL. April 2007
• Visit to Greenlight Trust office “THE GREENEST BUILDING IN UK”
• SAVE RURAL POST OFFICES CAMPAIGN
• CRED Climate Change WORKSHOP FOR YOUTH GROUPS. June 07
• September 2007 VGT display at Babergh seminar on climate change
• November 2007 promoted Green Squirrel home insulation project
• January 2008 Christmas card recycling collection
• February 2008 sponsored ‘lights out’ at Stoke Church
• March 2008 ‘Say no to plastics’ campaign
• May 2008 visit to TWAM
• May 2008 launch of VGT website