Recycle for Cornwall
The Recycle for Cornwall campaign has been developed to raise public awareness of recycling and to provide consumers with a compelling reason to recycle.
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During the summer months most of us love to spend the long balmy evenings enjoying a few drinks with friends and family and stoking up the barbeque.
More often than not the long balmy evening turns into a short, shower filled affair; but nevertheless you can’t stop us Brits barbequing! According to the National BBQ Association, 65.4% of UK households now own a barbecue of some type. In 2005, we spent £290m on food for grilling and held just over 100million barbecues making the UK Europe’s biggest BBQing nation!!
Forest Stewardship Council It is believed that most of the 40,000 tonnes of barbecued charcoal used every year in the UK comes from unsustainable sources. Whilst charcoal itself is "carbon neutral" in as much as it is produced from timber that is part of the planet's natural carbon cycle; up to 90% of the charcoal we burn each year is sourced from abroad, often from vulnerable tropical forests. The only truly sustainable option is to buy charcoal from one of the charcoal producers in the UK who are reviving the art of coppicing; look for the "tree and tick" Forest Stewardship Council label.
If you want to be able to have a BBQ wherever you go, why not buy a portable BBQ that you can use again and again?
Disposal barbeques are filled with non sustainable charcoal, produce waste and in the long run they will end up costing you lots of money. Another option for barbeques at home is to use a gas barbeque. These can be bought fairly cheaply and are a great option for saving you money and reducing waste.
Make sure your barbeques are waste free. Buy meat from a local butcher or farmers market where you can request less packaging. Don’t get carried away and cook more than you need; there is something about barbeques that convinces us we can eat twice our body weight but we inevitably end up wasting much of this food, save yourself some money and a stomach ache by buying sensibly!
Avoid using disposable plates, cups and cutlery; bright and attractive picnic sets can be bought if you don’t fancy letting the kids loose with your best crockery in the garden; but if you really can’t face the washing up make sure your temporary kitchenware is cardboard and composted when finished with. Compost left over salads and your charcoal embers to help your garden look great for barbeques every year!
Enjoying a barbeque in the summer sun is fantastic but wouldn’t you rather do it knowing you are helping to save the rainforest, cause minimal damage to our natural environment and minimise waste?
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