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Adopting new 'plastic friendly' habits into our lives will reduce the use of plastic and help our goal to improve our environment
2023
November's Challenge
November's challenge (Number 40)
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October's Challenge
Eastbourne is endeavouring to become Carbon Neutral by 2030. To help with our efforts, we need to choose an “indicator”, such as
- Number of plant-based meals eaten each week
- Reduction in car use
- Purchases made without any plastic wrappings
- Removing single-use plastic items from daily living, such as balloons or bottles of water
For your chosen indicator, what is your target for this time next year? Then choose a target for this time each year up to 2030, which will be your best position. Each year, check what progress you have made.
As you move forward, add further indicators which you feel will help you to become more sustainable.
September's Challenge
Come and join us in our big Beach Clean on 24th. See above for details.
August's Challenge
Delete inbox unwanted emails each weekend over each Monday in August. Each email is worth a plastic bag in carbon. Please complete a record: date, the total number of emails in the inbox, number deleted, resulting total in inbox. Do this on these dates (or similar) Mondays 7th,14th, 21st, 28th. Then send them into plasticfreeeastbourne@gmail.com best of all with your name.
July's Challenge
How did you do with June's Monthly Challenge (Number 34)?
Try to repair or mend something.
You could use YouTube as an excellent source of “how to” short videos. Otherwise, go to IfixIt. Here is a sample guide to fix a clock movement: FirsTime Wall Clock Movement Mechanism Replacement - iFixit Repair Guide
July's Monthly Challenge (Number 35)
Please sign this petition by Ocean Bottle
June's Challenge
Number 33
Try to repair or mend something
You could use YouTube as an excellent source of “how to” short videos. Otherwise, go to IfixIt. Here is a sample guide to fixing a clock movement: First Time Wall Clock Movement Mechanism Replacement - iFixit Repair Guide
May's Challenge
Number 33
Come to at least one event at our Festival.
April's Challenge
Number 32
Delete as many stored emails as you can.
One stored email is equivalent to 10g of CO2 per year. That’s the same CO2 emission as a plastic bag. So, with your spring clean, why not delete all those emails that are uselessly taking up space?
For more background, please visit ~
How to Reduce the Carbon Footprint of Your Emails | Eco-Age
How have you done?
March's Challenge
Number 31
A demanding challenge this month: try to engage with a relevant online petition or another campaign to influence ~
How did you do?
February's Challenge
Number 30
Encourage at least one of your friends or acquaintances to get interested in one of our Eastbourne Spring Water Festival 23 events. See below.
January's Challenge
Number 29
A demanding challenge this month: try to engage with a relevant online petition or another campaign to influence:
Eastbourne Borough Council or East Sussex County Council or the Government via Caroline Ansell or organisations like Oil Companies, Supermarkets or Plastics companies.
Our lobbying campaign is an example of this challenge. Please share any successes with Plastic Free Eastbourne.
2022
December's Challenge
Please do not use balloons for your Christmas (or any!) decorations. Instead: buy these fantastic and traditional sustainable alternative “pompoms”!
Get yours from Plastic Free Eastbourne. We will be making a small profit for our campaign for each purchase made. Look out for them in our E-Hive shop in the Beacon ~ between “3” and Watson's newsagents.
November's Challenge
When you need to replace your smartphone, choose a “Fairphone” , This is repairable, sustainable, and made from recycled plastics. Costs c£579. 5G speed, 5-year warranty and electronic waste neutral. Please check it out at least.
October's Challenge
Our October Monthly Challenge: “Number 26 ~ use “Ecosia” as your default search engine and discard Google: plant trees rather than send profits to big business.
September's Challenge
Our September Monthly Challenge: “Number 25 ~ top up your refillable bottle at one of our newly installed “Dolphin” Refill Stations, somewhere!? Please upload a photo of you refilling your drinking bottle on Plastic Free Eastbourne's FB Group page.
August's Challenge
Our August Monthly Challenge: “Number 24 ~ top up your refillable bottle at one of our Spring Water Way refill stations.
July's Challenge
Our June Monthly Challenge: “Number 22
Volunteer to take part in our publicity stall or in our Carnival.
June's Challenge
Our June Monthly Challenge: “Number 22
Volunteer to take part in our publicity stall or in our Carnival.
May's Challenge
Our May Monthly Challenge: “Number 21 ~ Charity shop challenge: when you need something for the home or to wear try to source it from a charity shop. Also, take something for selling
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April's Challenge
Our April Monthly Challenge: Number 20 ~ book something to participate in our Eastbourne Sring Water Festival” There is something for everyone.
Our Eco Fair is new this year. It will be found on Western Lawns. It starts at 9 am and will last until 4 pm. Everyone is welcome. There will be a group of stalls with one thing in common: aim to improve the quality of our Planet. Here are some of the participants, Plastic Free Eastbourne, Eastbourne Greenpeace, Vegan Society, Strandliners, Marine Conservation Society,
Breatheasy, Thunderhawk Apparel, Eastbourne Climate Coalition, Buzz and BASS Explore
March's Challenge
“Number 19 ~ decide how you are going to get to being carbon neutral by 2030”
February's Challenge
Number 18 -“Clear-out! Replace the use of single-use cleaning product plastic bottles with refill.”
Recycle your P.P.E. and Lateral Flow Tests.
Use a Refill Centre: Purevo/Reworks warehouse in 104, Firle Road. BN22 8ES. Contact Joe Rose ~ 07527 119304
Also in Hailsham: “Simply Weigh”. Unit 2B St Mary's Walk, BN27 1AF. Contact 01323 441467
Both are on FB
Raise awareness in Eastbourne about these disposal places. Whatsapp Groups/emails and Social Media.
January's Challenge
Number 17: 'Join our Campaign'
Encourage at least one of your friends or acquaintances to join our campaign by adding to our Mailchimp email group.
2021
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December's Challenge
Our September Monthly Challenge: Number 16
'Prepare for an Eco-friendly Christmas'
1. Choose plastic-free Christmas Crackers if you plan on using them.
2. Use alternative decorations to balloons. See the photo below.
3. Use recycled wrapping paper or plan paper which you add decoration to
4. Don't buy Greetings cards with glitter on them
5. Try to avoid as much waste food as possible. Leftovers can be used in different formats over the following few days. Also, please think of using your freezer too.
There are lots of other ideas out there. Please try to adapt at least one thing.
November's Challenge
This is quite a novel challenge, which I hope everyone will take up: too many of us assume that when a tube of toothpaste or a plastic bottle of shampoo or shower soap won't produce any more of its contents that they are empty and so are thrown away! Instead, cut the container in half with some scissors and you will find that there is plenty left for loads more times.
October's Challenge
Our October Monthly Challenge: Number 12
'Sign up to the "Benign Plastics" Petition.'
This is a straightforward challenge which I hope everyone will take up. Click the link below to download our petition and start collecting your own signatures.
September & August's Challenge
Our September Monthly Challenge: Number 11
'Ethical Electronics and Media'
This is quite a complex challenge and it will be up to iondividuals to interpret how to meet this target. One easy way to acheive some improvement is to ditch Google as a search engine and adopt "ECOSIA". The profits from browsing using Ecosia pays for planting trees. Currently there have been 130 million trees planted and you can find out how many trees you personally, will have been responsible for buying!
July's Challenge
Our July Monthly Challenge: Number 10
'Sustainable use of Elecricity'
Switch off wall sockets, computers and smart-phones, TV & boosters; hot water: can use cold; don't sing in the shower; windows open and heating on! Smart meter to be in control; switch off lights when not in use - use LEDs which cost more but consume far less electricity; fill a kettle with enough water for use; think about fitting solar panels on your roof.
June's Challenge
Our June Monthly Challenge: Number 9
'Visit all Refill stations along Spring Water Way'
May's Challenge
Our May Monthly Challenge: Number 8
'Pledge to never buy a single-use plastic bottle of water'
April's Challenge
Our April Monthly Challenge: Number 7
'Reduce water consumption'
March's Challenge
Our March Monthly Challenge: Number 6
'How can families reduce single use plastic'
February's Challenge
Our February Monthly Challenge: Number 5
'Single use plastic free shopping'
January's Challenge
Toilet cistern: Add a brick; COVID-19 hand-washing for 20 seconds NOT with tap running; same with toothbrushing; singing in the shower, choose shower over bath; reuse kitchen (grey water) for garden watering.
2020
December's Challenge
Our December Monthly Challenge: Number 3
'Balloons'
6 Eco-Friendly balloon alternatives
1. Pin Wheels
2. Bubbles
3. Streamers
4. Pompoms
5. Bunting and Banners
6. Paper chains or Garlands
November's Challenge
Our November Monthly Challenge: Number 2
'Sustainable Crackers'
October's Challenge
Our October Monthly Challenge: Number 1
'Get rid of Bin Liners'