THINGS YOU CAN DO...
Want to reduce your ecological impact in your daily life? Check out Zero Waste Portsmouth’s website and join their Facebook group It is a great place to ask for tips, advice and share resources.
Do package free shopping as much as possible: Take your own containers or bags to buy loose produce at our city’s many zero waste friendly shop. Find a list of them by Googling zero waste friendly shops Portsmouth.
Get your old laptop or PC fixed: If yourcomputerisplayingup,don’t ditch it: email the Landport PC Repair Cafe at interactiv@enableability.org. uk to see if they can fix it at a very low cost. If they can’t they will offer to upcycle it instead.
Local food waste sharing for businesses: If you are a business with regular food waste try registering with the Too Good To Go app. Any surplus food is placed into ‘magic bags’ which contain any surplus stock and are therefore a surprise. These bags are listed on the Too Good To Go app for sale at a third of product cost. ‘Rescuing’ one magic bag every day from one store for a year is equivalent to preventing the amount of CO2e emitted from driving a car from Land’s End to John O’Groats and back.
Local Food waste sharing: for individuals: OLIO is a smartphone app that connects neighbours with each other and with local businesses so surplus food can be shared, rather than thrown away.
Set up your own neighbourhood Facebook group to encourage re-use of materials: Wimbledon
Park Patch is a local Facebook group where people ask for stuff they need and share what they no longer want (books, TVs, rugs, musical instruments, furniture, kids school uniforms, wellies and toys for example). Set up in 2012 by one resident it now has over 750 members, and the exchanges happen on a daily basis. Why not set up your own one, where you live?
Learn how to repair your clothes for free at Sustainable Textiles
Within a session you’ll be able to sew something from a variety of beginner-projects available. Or learn how to fix or re-design the items you bring, such as curtains, clothes, towels, hats, sheets and bags.
The sessions are free and open twice a month with more being planned. For future dates email the team at southsea.sustex@gmail.com.