The Clean Coasts Roadshow will be visiting Wexford on Saturday 21st March at the Presentation Center Enniscorthy at 1.30pm. It aims to bring together all those with an interest in protecting their local beaches, seas and marine life. There will also be speakers from local groups too including Wexford Maritime Festival, Wexford Sub Aqua Club, Duncannon Hooked Kitesurfing and many more.
There is a cleanup taking place on Saturday March 21st. We will be meeting at 10am meeting by the Tourist office on the Quay. We would love to see our regular volunteers and some new faces, everyone is welcome. We will be litterpicking, planting, recycling, and signing up people for the Green Dog Walkers Project.
The Green Dog Walkers Campaign is a positive and pro-active way to encourage and support responsible dog ownership in Wexford. It aims to increase awareness of the problem of dog fouling which is among the most common forms of littering. When you sign up to the scheme you will get a complimentary Green Dog Walkers high-vis vest, Green Dog-Walkers armband indicating that you are a responsible dog–owner participating in and supporting the scheme and a ‘doggie bone’ poop-bag dispenser with a roll of bags.
This is a campaign promoted and funded by the Environment Department of Wexford County Council, and supported by Borough District of Wexford, Wexford Tidy Towns, WSPCA, Visit Wexford.ie to combat the dog fouling in Wexford Town. Join our Green Dog Walkers campaign, by signing the pledge and together we can reduce dog-fouling in our community.
There will be a weekend of events about the sea (scientific, cultural, social, economic) hosted in Wexford town and around its estuaries, lagoons and coast on the 25th and 26th April, 2015. It is being organised by Coastwatch, Trinity College, Dublin and Wexford County Council.
They are looking for volunteers to help organise the event and host field trips. If you would like to volunteer to help with Blue Info Days, please contact Karin Dubsky at kdubsky@coastwatch.org or 086 8111684 by 23rd March, 2015.
For further information, see www.citclops.eu, www.coastwatch.org or contact Karin Dubsky at kdubsky@coastwatch.org or 086 8111684
Wexford Tidy Towns are working away aiming always to make Wexford a cleaner, greener and more attractive town. Well done to everyone who took part in the WEEE recycling day at the start of February in Tesco and recycled your old electronics. Responsible recycling is important in the community and we actively encourage it. We will be holding other recycling collections in the future. We would also like to remind you about the fantastic facility we have in Holmestown which takes a huge variety of recyclable materials.
Wexford Tidy Towns will be doing some planting around the town in the next few weeks and in the coming months Wexford in Bloom will be back flowering up our Town. We are continuing to promote the Green Dog Walkers Project. Get in touch with us if you would like sign up to show you are a responsible dog owner and help us combat the continuing problem of dog fouling in our town.
We also will be restarting our evening cleanups from 6pm to 7.30pm on weekday evenings as it stays brighter for longer. The days will depend on how many volunteers we get. If you would like to be involved in these cleanups or any of our activities get in touch with your contact information. We would be delighted to have some new people along with our fantastic regulars. We are always looking for more volunteers, the more we have the more we can do.
There will be a FREE waste electronic and electrical collection recycling day in Wexford Town on Saturday the 7th of February 2015. Collection takes place in the Tesco carpark in Wexford from 10am – 4pm. Anything that is household related with a plug or battery will be accepted.
This Includes:
TVs & Aerials | Microwaves
IT Equipment
Dishwashers | Fridges & Freezers
Power Tools
Battery Operated Toys
Kettles & Toasters
All Waste Batteries
& Many More……
There will also be recycling collection days held in other parts of County Wexford in February including Blackwater, Kilmore Quay, Ballygarrett and Wellingtonbridge for locations and dates see here
If you cannot make any of the collection days remember that you can recycle your waste batteries and electrical waste for free all year round at one of Wexford’s four Household Recycling Centres in Enniscorthy, Gorey, New Ross and Holmestown.
WEEE Ireland organises free public collection days of WEEE and waste batteries. Click here to learn more about WEEE Ireland collection days.
On Saturday January 17th Wexford Tidy Towns will be in the Tesco Store to take all of your used batteries for recycling. We will be there from 10am to 4pm if you want to come along and drop off any used batteries you have in your house. We are also looking for some people to help out in Tesco on the day with manning the collection table. All we need is one hour of your time between the hours of 10am to 4pm. If you can help out please get in touch through Facebook or text 0863558878 with what time suits you. We are also having our first clean up for 2015 on Saturday 17th meeting in Ferrybank at 10am. We hope you will make Wexford Tidy Towns a part of your new years resolution for 2015, so see you there!
Wexford Naturalists’ Field Club January Lecture may be of interest to some of our members. The first lecture of the year will be held on Friday 9th January 2015 8pm at The Pumphouse, Wexford Wildfowl Reserve. Non-members are welcome and admission is €5 including light refreshments. The topic will be:
Wildlife Conservation and the Community – From Barntown to Ballydesmond by Dr. Fran Igoe, Project Co-ordinator IRD Duhallow LIFE+ Project
The presentation will cover the following:
IRD Duhallow is a not for profit rural development company with the aim of improving the welfare of communities in Duhallow, Cork through generation of enterprise, social supports and voluntary initiatives.