Community News & Events

Our local Whitstable community arts centre, The Horsebridge, opened in 2004 and registered as a Plastic Free Business Champion in 2018. Talking to their manager, Liz, it is clear that she believes “reducing plastic should be important to everyone”. The Horsebridge, as a public centre, should model best practice and raise awareness through their projects and exhibitions. The Horsebridge has taken a range of steps to reduce, reuse and recycle including changing their packaging

Now that Plastic Free Whitstable has its own webpage, we’ll be highlighting local businesses committed to reducing single use plastic and signed up as Plastic Free Whitstable Business Champions. First up is Tankerton Arms! The Tank is a micro pub at 135 Tankerton Road, CT5 2AW. It opened in 2013 and signed up as a PFW business ten years later. The landlord, Jon, says that reducing plastic is important to him. He grew up in Whitstable and so the “sea has always been part of hi

Hey, we're taking part in the The Big Plastic Count - will you join us? This March, join thousands of people taking part in the UK's biggest people-powered investigation into household plastic waste. Sign up to take part: https://thebigplasticcount.com

PRODUCT LOCATION AND COMMENTS Card & Paper Kerbside recycling (Council) Sainsbury stopped Sept 2023 Plastic & Bottles Kerbside recycling (Council) Sainsbury stopped Sept 2023 Soft plastic eg bread bags, plastic crisp packets, cling film, film lids on soft fruit punnets and ready meals, pasta bags, biscuit and chocolate wrappers NB: must be clean Tesco Extra, Millstrood Rd Southern Co-op, Cromwell Rd Co-op, Oxford St Co-op, Canterbury Rd M & S, Estuary View Aldi, Estuary View

This autumn is seeing an exciting commitment to tree planting and the CT5 Eco Group is delighted to be supporting this as part of its purpose to celebrate and save our natural world.    On November 24th Canterbury City Council (CCC) is planting 100 trees at the Swalecliffe seafront by the water treatment plant.   Through early December Kentish Stour Countryside Partnership with Kent County Council (KCC) are planting 1600 trees at Swalecliffe playing fields.     On December 10

Here’s a ‘how to’ guide from the CT5 People’s Forum Eco Group   In the CT5 area we are very fortunate to have Blean Woods right on our doorstep but would you also like to see more trees in Whitstable itself? There are many positives about having trees in urban areas: for example they provide shade on hot days, they take pollutants out of the air and they also tend to increase property prices!    One way to add trees is to plant them in grass verges which run along the side of