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Make a difference day – 27 October 2007
Fairfield will be participating at a hands-on conservation and networking day at Chorlton Ees and Ivy Green Local Nature Reserve (LNR). The idea is to provide people with the opportunity of getting out on their LNR and actively participate in its habitat management - but also – and maybe more importantly, provide the opportunity to meet like-minded people and local organisations who are actively involved in improving the quality of life in the area.
We'll be sharing our knowledge about the importance of healthy soil, how compost will be playing a more important role as drier weather conditions become the norm, and how you can become a composting practitioner.
For more information please contact: Mersey Valley Countryside Warden Service, www.merseyvalley.org.uk
5 positive steps to help save the planet with compost and composting
Eco Schools Forum and Green Fair - 1 November 2007
Fairfield will be promoting compost and composting at the annual Eco Schools Forum and Green Fair which is being held on November 1st 2007 at Manchester Town Hall. The focus of this year’s event is ‘Inclusion and participation’; teachers and pupils are invited to attend. There will be workshops about Eco Schools, the Sustainable Schools strategy, campaigning skills and school councils, amongst others.
All the schools in Manchester are invited to the Green Fair so they can meet similar organisations face to face and build useful contacts. Whilst the Green Fair is running there will also be a rolling programme of training for teachers and pupils. All are welcome to attend.
The day is being organised in partnership between MEEN, Manchester City Council’s Environmental Campaigns team and Manchester’s Healthy Schools Programme.
GREEN & GAY
The team from Fairfield Materials Management will be participating at this year's Gay Pride parade in Manchester on Saturday, 25th August 2007.
We'll be getting down and dirty on our Mean Green Composting Machine, whilst following the composting and recycling float organised by Manchester City Council.
It's always a fun and eye-catching event but we're hoping we can convey a serious message to the crowd that home composting makes sense. Being green AND gay is possible!
National Allotment Week - 13-19 August 2007
National Allotment Week offers a chance for allotment sites and allotmenteers to work together to promote the UK's most popular hobby!
The focus of this year's National Allotment Week is that traditional architectural gem - The Garden Shed.
FREE COMPOST
If your des-res allotment shed has been built with recycled material and doesn't look too much like a shanty-town reject, we'd like to see it.
We'll give away 1 tonne of our glorious, dark, nutritious mulching compost to the first 3 winning entries we receive. FREE DELIVERY is included. Simply send in a photograph of your garden shed to Fairfield (via email or post)* by Friday, 24 August 2007, and you might win some compost, as well as earn some well-deserved shed envy from your fellow allotmenteers in the region.
We'll be creating a gallery of Greater Manchester's best-looking sheds on this website.
*Please include your name and contact details.
Seminar, 12th February 2007 - A Better Way to Recycle
Fairfield's Marketing Manager - Helen Middleton - will be presenting a case study about Fairfield's innovative business in order to encourage co-operative and community approaches to recycling. The event, organised by Co-operatives UK, will be held in Manchester.
January 2007
Emma Smith, Projects Manager at Fairfield Materials Management appeared for the first time in Resource Magazine's list of the UK's Hot 100 most influential and `mightiest characters' in the sustainable waste arena. Coming in at No.70, she gained a higher ranking than Ken Livingstone and Caroline Lucas (Green Party MEP).
Press Releases - Archives
Hoe Hoe Hoe: Have a Composting Christmas - November 2006
Manchester Could Be Doing A Whole Heap More - September 2006
It’s Your Shout : I Dig Compost - June 2006
Breathing Life Back into the City - May 2006
Why journalists should talk to Fairfield Materials Management
We'll give you information about:
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the environmental case for sound green waste management and composting...(and recycling in general)
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the background to the landfill directive
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operating as a social enterprise in an important and growing industry
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those difficult compost and composting dilemmas
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advice on how to apply compost in different applications
Media Contacts
Helen Middleton, Business Manager - Tel: 0161 231 2139,
or Emma Smith, Projects Manager - Tel: 0161 231 2139
