Our Common Home Project News - March 2025
“The destruction of the environment is an offence against God.
I make this heartfelt appeal:
Let us choose life! Let us choose the future! ”
Pope Francis,
in a letter addressed to world leaders at COP28
RECYCLE BLISTER PACKS
You can now take your empty blister packs from your medication to any Boots store to be recycled. The aluminium foil, which is infinitely recyclable, is separated from the plastic. The plastic is recycled into many different products.
You can put the empty blister packs in the container in the Boots store.
Full details here.
FAIRTRADE FOR EASTER
As we are approaching Easter, please consider buying FAIRTRADE for Easter.
Farmers who grow the cocoa used in chocolate Easter eggs earn an average of $1 per day. It’s just not enough to meet their basic needs.
Plus, cocoa farmers in countries such as Côte d’Ivoire and Ghana, which have contributed the least to the climate emergency, are also facing its worst effects.
Co-op, Aldi, Waitrose and Lidl as well as online stores have Fairtrade eggs and other chocolate treats. More information here.
With FAIRTRADE you change the world a little bit every day. Through simple shopping choices you are showing businesses and governments that you believe in fair and just trade.
Look for FAIRTRADE goods wherever you shop - make a difference.
Find out more about Fairtrade here and on Facebook.
RECYCLING WRITING INSTRUMENTS
Rymans have stopped accepting these for recycling so we are not collecting used writing instruments for now at the Recycling Point. If a new scheme is put in place to recycle these, we will start collecting them again.
COME AND JOIN US!
New members of the Our Common Home Team are always welcome. Please come to our next meeting with your ideas or to find out how you can help. Our next meetings are:
13th April, 11th May, and 15th June
We meet once a month, in the parish library at 10am for one hour before 11am Mass.
The Earth was here before us and was given to us - Our Common Home. It is God's dominion, but entrusted to us, and it is our shared responsibility to be good stewards of everything we have received – nature, one another, resources, gifts and talents.