Extinction Rebellion Abingdon were in the town centre on Saturday and young people were making a splash.
The painting shown here was done by an older sister (aged 6) who is worried about the future of the planet.
The ‘Unpacked’ test at the Waitrose in, Botley Road, Oxford has been well received by people, in Oxford and area, and so the experiment is being extended to Abingdon and Wallingford from November. Waitrose have closed off an area at the back of the Abingdon store for refitting. Features are likely to include a refillable zone and frozen pick and mix with the aim of using less packaging. In Oxford they also had a lot less packaging on fruit and veg, and paper packaging round flowers. People brought along their own reusable bags and containers, or brought some in the store.
At the same time there is a revamp of the cafe area.
Some areas in the car park have been closed to hold work plant. Work started on 29th September and will take 8 weeks.
The Abinit! litter picking volunteers were back at Reynold’s Way to help to get rid of some of the litter that had been blowing around the streets.
Some of it ends up in the hedge running alongside the Reynold’s Way Supermarket.
Before.
After.
Helen and Lynne continue to organise these events. There were about fourteen bags full of litter collected after about two hours. The next Abinit! litter pick starts at Abingdon Lock on Saturday 19th October. There will be impromptu picks before then.
Members of the Abingdon Carbon Cutters (Cutting Plastic) group were encouraging people to unwrap produce outside the large Supermarket on the Marcham Road in Abingdon this morning as part of a Mass Unwrap.
After removing single-use plastics from their shopping, customers could put purchases into their own containers, bags etc. The plastics were collected and returned to the supermarket. One lady brought back all the plastic packaging she had collected this year.
The emphasis was on the unnecessary plastic, not the supermarket.
The hope is to encourage the customers and the supermarket and its suppliers to reduce single-use plastics.
There has already been a huge reduction in the use of single use plastic shopping bags.