Sustainable Merton

On Thursday 27th September supporters of Sustainable Merton packed into the Guardian Centre in Colliers Wood to review the progress made over the last seven months and to make plans for the future. Sustainable Merton Co-ordinator Tom Walsh highlighted the exciting developments which have taken place this year including projects to develop a plastic bag free zone (Volunteers have been busy on the streets of Wimbledon Park talking to retailers, residents end community organisations as part of a campaign to make Wimbledonb Park London’s first plastic bag free zone, following in the footsteps of Modbury in Devon and Hebden Bridge in Yorkshire. To find out more about the campaign and how you can get involved email Mariana at kingstonmertonrnn@yahoo.co.uk) and a community-owned wind turbine. Ideas for future projects included an Eco Pals mentoring scheme, door to door education, letter writing campaigns, a Merton Food up Front project, working with faith groups, recycling at Merton events, and an anti-bottled water campaign. If you are interested in getting involved in these or any other projects you might like to see happen then please email info @ sustainablemerton.org.uk (remove spaces)