Present: Carolyn, Jill, Stella, Esther, Charles, Anne and Paula

1. Plastics Collections

Anne will produce a press article for the next Courier to go with the photos taken by Nora on 31st May (now published and very good it was too!!). We collected 57 bags in total at this collection including 20 from Sandford and Cheriton Fitzpaine and this brings our total since starting close to 10 tons.

In the financial Year 2013/2014 we collected 4.6 tons over 6 collections which was to give an idea of how effective we are being 28% by weight of the total plastics collected by Punchbowl during the same period.

Stella is to pass Anne's contact details to a lady in Shobrooke who is considering starting up a collection there.

Our next collection is on July 26th in Crediton and during the week prior to this in the villages.

Paula to place ad in Courier of 18th July.

Anne mentioned she would be unavailable to run the Sept collection as she will be on holiday.

2. Tip of the Month

Stella has written to Alan Quicke to 'gee him up' in using our articles. Article number 4 is ready and waiting but number 3 had not been published at time of meeting (was subsequently published in issue of 6th June).

Paula suggested we attach a picture to the articles as the Courier likes to use pictures. We will all take some at the Food Festival recycling event and start to develop a library.

Anne suggested we put the Sus Cred logo on the articles. Charles to send to Stella but as the Courier have it on file it was felt this was not essential.

3. MDDC Recycling Changes Survey

49 people had responded to Charles 'mini survey' sent out to Sus Cred members to see what people's views on the proposed recycling changes are. Charles will send on the results to MDDC.

The proposal is for fortnightly collections of all waste stream types including landfill, plastic to be collected at the doorstep (not sure how extensive the range of plastic collected will be at present), cardboard to be added to the current black box recycling collections and food waste put in a caddy.

The £50 charge for Garden Waste was the most controversial item for survey respondees, but this looks set to go ahead when the policy is debated by the full MDDC Council on 2nd July. Members of the public are allowed to attend this debate. Charles said he might go.

4. Food Festival Recycling June 14/15

7 people had agreed to help from Anne's plastic recycling list of volunteers. All the Committee members were available to help too.

We will cover Sat in 2 shifts, 10.30am  to 1pm and 1pm to 3.30pm and Sunday in 2 shifts from 12noon to 2pm and 2pm to 4pm. We will not cover Sat evening.

Anne will send Carolyn the list of volunteers who will help. Carolyn will make up a rota and send it out to all the volunteers and committee members. Everyone to be reminded to bring gloves, suntan cream and a hat.

The recycling bins and bags will be delivered on Thursday 12th by MDDC to Town Square. As Jill is away Paula & Charles will be the emergency contacts for 12/13th June should there be any difficulty. Jill to inform MDDC.

Jill will provide signs for the bins. We will also use the A frame, Sus Cred banner and recycling banner. Carolyn to make 2 A0 signs to go on the A frame saying 'Recycling Point'

Esther, Jill and Stella will be at Town Square at 10am on Sat 14th to set up

Carolyn will leave signs at Esther's in advance, Anne will leave High Viz vests there and Charles the Sus Cred and recycling banners.

The cost of bin delivery and then re-collection on Mon 16th by MDDC will be £55 and this will be paid by the Food Festival organisers

5. Pop Up Shop

We have now been awarded £1,445 in grants to run this, £500 from DCC under their Locality Fund (thanks to Nick Way) and £945 from Awards For All. If we do not use this money within the financial year to March 31 2015 we will have to give it back!  Paula to send Anne a copy of the DCC email confirming the £500 they have given us.

The Museum has said no to us using their premises so Esther is talking to the agents for Gees.

Jill to investigate the premises next to Morrisons again with them. Stella to look into the possibilities of using the Guide Hut at the Leisure Centre.

Paula to speak to Spinnakers and to Managers of local letting agents Todd Lettings, Devon Lettings, Helmores and Bradleys to get on their books as official 'clients' and explain we have funds to pay a modest rent.

Depending on results of Esther's investigations of Gees and Paula's discussions with Spinnakers and the letting agents above we may look at less prominent locations other than High St shops at the next meeting.

We agreed that as soon as a suitable premises became available we should plan and execute the Pop Up Shop as quickly as possible.

We could also have a Give and Take table at the Sus Cred Community Market stall we are organising on August 9th. This would need advertising with a press release and advert in the Courier for a couple of weeks in advance. More discussion of how to go about this needed at the July meeting.

6. Any Other Business

6.1 Flower Pot Recycling at Bernaville

Bernaville were not responding to Esthers calls and appeared to have removed the recycled goods display from the shop. Esther felt it was therefore unlikely they would take back pots and would drop the matter for the time being.

6.2 Resignation

After 7 years of facilitating the group Paula announced she would be standing down from this role at the end of August. She therefore wondered whether any other member of the group would like to take over the role or whether the structure of the group should change to accommodate this. More discussion is necessary at the July meeting.

7. Next Meeting

Mon 7th July at 2pm at Jills.

Meeting closed at 4.25pm.