1. abbyamadan wrote 4 months ago

   I have been put in charge (because I have a compost heap!) of lowering th eenvironmental impact of 24 boys and girls (ages 8-11) attending the scout jamboree at Punchestown this summer for three days - any easily transposrtable and camp friendly ideas out there - eg can you compost for just three days?

2. Shand replied 3 months ago

   Hope to see you there abbyamadam. Will be in Newgrange sub camp myself. Don't have any tips for you but would like to follow your progress

3. abbyamadan replied 3 months ago

   Cub Scout leaders don't need ideas, we have cubs to provide them, it turns out that half of the cubs go to schools that fly the green flag see www.antaisce.ie and know exactly what's what...so far we are organising to share a bus to get there with another scout group - lowering CO2. We are going to split our waste into recycleable waste streams - Louth county council is going to loan us segregated bins. we are having a litter patrol (again LCC will loan litter bibs and pickers - they are great, try your local authority for similar help) and the cubs have set up a yellow card, red card scheme for litter offences and not segregating waste at the camp. we are also borrowing some solar lamps to light up the tents at night to save batteries and as many cubs as possible are going to get wind up torches. We are going to experiment with short term composting using bokashi or worms with the (tightly sealed) products coming back to my compost heap in the equipment van (V&W recycling in dundalk and Drogheda - the worlds best recycling centres are loaning us sealed buckets for the mini compost bins.) this is the result of one meeting of the green committee last week and I am sure more ideas will be forthcoming and all the cubs are looking forward to being the meanest greenest machine on the campsite. If this level of knowledge is what participation in the Green Flag provides, the government should be paying schools to take part rather than relying on a charity to do the work - Brilliant.

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