Entries by Carrie Cort

West Sussex County Council Pension Divestment Campaign

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The West Sussex Local Government Pension Fund is currently responsible for the pension benefits – and future benefits – of thousands of employees (WSCC employees, Local District Council employees, school teachers employed in West Sussex etc). In 2019 it was known that the pension fund invested approximately £200 million in Fossil Fuel companies (we do […]

Single use plastic recycling in Billingshurst

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We are delighted to be working with BilliGreen an environmental group in Billingshurst in offering our 8th parish single-use plastic drop off location. BilliGreen have agreed a public drop off location in the The Chapel car park, we have supplied some council bins for local people to use to help recycle specific hard to recycle […]

We won a GOLD CPRE Sussex Countryside Award

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We are delighted to announce that last night we were given a gold award at the Countyside Protection for Rural England (CPRE) Sussex Countryside Awards. CPRE honoured the county’s countryside heroes at its first ever virtual awards ceremony held on Zoom. Last night’s ceremony began with a welcome from CPRE Sussex Chair, Professor Dan Osborn […]

Churches unite to help fundraise for our recycling hub

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PRESS RELEASE SUSSEX GREEN LIVING THANK HORSHAM DISTRICT COMMUNITY AND LOCAL CHURCHES FOR THEIR RECYCLING EFFORTS AND ANNOUNCE OPENING OF NEW RECYCLING HUB Joy Carter, “lead Womble” at Sussex Green Living has continued to co-ordinate the sorting and dispatch of “hard-to-recycle” types of waste accepted by TerraCycle during the COVID-19 lockdown and subsequent period and […]

Parishes and Schools recycle more single-use plastics

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Here’s What You Can Do. In partnership with TerraCycle, a global leader in recycling hard-to-recycle materials, Sussex Green Living is now working with over fourteen parishes and schools to divert billions of waste resources from landfills. Why is Recycling Single-Use Plastic Important? Plastics are extremely durable and cheap to manufacture, making them almost impossible to […]