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In addition to the Town Council looking for ways to cut its own carbon footprint – we also have a green marketing plan with handy hints and info to encourage others in the town or following us on one of the many social media to play their part.  The idea is that the people living in and around Congleton will work together on biodiversity and the climate emergency with a focus on a different aspect of sustainability each month throughout the rest of 2022. Synching up with the national awareness and activism calendar, everyone (residents, businesses, staff, councillors..) is invited to create a 20-second video (filmed on a phone is fine) showing what they are doing about each topic - and post it on social media with the relevant hashtag plus #CongletonGreen.

 For April the focus is ‘Stop Food Waste Day’ on the 27^th of the month. Any time during April, please make your short video and put it on (any or all of) Facebook, TikTok, Instagram, Twitter and LinkedIn with a description and the hashtags #CongletonGreen #LoveFoodHateWaste (and, if posting on the 27^th itself, add #StopFoodWasteDay). If you can make a short video or have ideas for left overs recipes forward to Debbie and she can help.  

 The Town Council will re-share the videos and will make a montage of some of them as a celebration at the end of the month.

 Future months will have their own themes, for example:

May – #NoMowMay and Biodiversity

June – Cycling and Walking

July – Going Plastic Free

 More will be communicated as the year progresses – follow Congleton Town Council on Facebook and Twitter to keep up-to-date with each of the themes and hashtags.

 To help householders and businesses plan for their own carbon neutral and biodiversity programme, the Council is creating a new Green Resources Centre on its website. Don’t forget that the Sustainable Living in Congleton (SLIC) e-Learning course is available for everyone free of charge at https://learn.congleton-tc.gov.uk/

 If you’ve got a good idea for using up spare food and stopping food waste please share!!

  W: www.congleton-tc.gov.uk