Mumbles Development Trust Ymddiriedolaeth Datblygu'r Mwmbwls

Mumbles Environmental ~ Mwmbwls Amgylcheddol

A big thank you is in order from everyone at the Mumbles Development Trust for the united effort shown in the community during our Christmas recycling campaign.

With the cards being eventually deposited with M&S the community collection points were the Mumbles Development Trust Office, Oystermouth Library, Boots, Cover To Cover, Norton Day Centre, Linden Christian Centre, West Cross Stores, The Welsh School and Newton Primary School.

​The campaign was administered by Robin Bonham and Naomi Trodden of the Mumbles Development Trust who informed us today that no less than 90 Bags full of recycled Christmas cards were gathered.

​Thanks to the community and the people behind the collection points and you can find out further information about the Mumbles Development Trust recycling movement here at the the Website,

Your Mumbles Recycling Station

By Toni Delaney

Recycling empty inkjet cartridges is an easy way for anybody to help to reduce the strain on our environment. Here are a few good reasons for taking a trip down to Dunns Lane and depositing your ink cartridges with the Mumbles Development Trust.

Here are some images of part of the recycling process. The MDT provide a quick turn around period so that these items are not hanging around

Each single cartridge that is recycled saves almost three pounds of natural resources associated with the production of a new cartridge.  An inkjet cartridge that is recycled also saves an average of three and a half ounces of oil. With the worldwide demand for oil on the rise and supplies dwindling, what you make think of as a small effort will actually make quite a significant difference given time. Finally, you should recycle or reuse your empty inkjet cartridges to reduce the strain on local landfill sites. An inkjet cartridge does not biodegrade in a landfill, as does other waste. Once a cartridge is discarded, it will be there for hundreds of years.
 

Recycling ink cartridges will of course also mean a cheaper cartridge for the consumer.
 

The Mumbles Development Trust also welcome unwanted mobile phones which, apart from clogging up our already over used landfill sites, also contain poisonous elements, such as lead, cadmium and beryllium, which are harmful to wildlife and human health.

Mumbles Development Trust Recycling Point

All you have to do is drop your unwanted mobile phone or ink cartridge and the Mumbles Development Trust will do the rest. They have all the safe packaging at their Dunns Lane collection point and they also have the correct connection so that you can feel rest assured that all proceeds generated by the Mumbles Development Trust recycling movement will be pumped directly into the Trust’s environmental action groups that ensure our beaches remain clean and our Green spaces remain Green.

Your recycling action maintains scenes like this

Visit the Mumbles Development Trust Website by following the link here and not only will you discover more about the environmental work that is going on in the community but also what the opening times of the Mumbles Development Trust are too, which will allow you to drop off your unwanted items and smile, when you turn to face the sea just down the Lane, safe in the knowledge that it will continue to look as beautiful as it does through you doing your bit for a better environment – a better Mumbles http://www.mumblesdevelopmenttrust.org

Clyne Valley Country Park Under Threat

Clyne Valley Country Park, Swansea, is under threat of residential development through the Local Development Plan proposals. The Clyne Valley Community Project  wish to prevent this, and conserve the beautiful Clyne Valley as a valuable Green Wedge amenity area.

Beautiful Clyne Valley

This news arrives just days after Mumbles Matters reported on the great news that The Clyne Valley Community Project had scooped a £5,000 Big Lottery Fund award towards much needed safety equipment and tools. These items are intended to be used to create new path ways so that one of the UK’s finest Green areas can be further explored and enjoyed by all.

The hard working Clyne Valley Community Project  volunteer members have set up a campaign and a new Website ‘Save Clyne Valley’. The aim of this campaign is to save Clyne Valley Country Park from development, and  to maintain the valley, and it's recreation system, to enrich the quality of life for all residents and visitors alike, and to preserve it for future generations.

The ‘Save Clyne Valley’ campaign states it precise argument clearly on its new Website,
    
    “We are trying to save Clyne Valley, especially certain parts of it, which could be under threat in Killay South and Killay North from the Local Development  Plan, which is currently under review (as of August 2011), and to keep it in its natural form,
 
    or as Swansea City Council put in their Unitary Development Plan:-
 
    To upgrade the visual environment and image of the area (1.a)
    To protect the countryside from development that would cause material harm and protect the undeveloped coastline from unnecessary development (1.c)
    To prevent coalescence of settlements and protect the interplay of town and     country (1.d)
    To protect and enhance valued natural heritage and species (1.e)”

So, while we should all be sensitive to the environment, wherever it is in the world some may say, ‘well, what does this have to do with Mumbles, when the development is planned for Killay?’

Mumbles Development Trust Vice Chair Robin Bonham, fellow volunteers and local school children Tree Planting at Clyne Valley

Most of us are aware that Clyne Valley does indeed cover a significant part of the Mumbles community and volunteer organisation’s, such as the Mumbles Development Trust, have worked very hard, securing funding and incorporating the assistance of hundreds of volunteers and educating many young people, including local school children, into the importance of Woodland development and management.

As Clyne Valley Community Project  volunteer Barbara Parry stated,

    “The ‘Mumbles Way’ passes through the bottom of ‘the Valley’ where much organised tree planting has taken place. Neither of these areas are under     threat     from these proposals . . . yet!”

More can be learned about the work of the The Clyne Valley Community Project  and the ‘Save Clyne Valley’ campaign by clicking on any of the following links

www.clynevalleycommunityproject.co.uk

http://www.saveclynevalley.co.uk/

By Joel Bennett

Free British Trust for Conservation Volunteers (BTCV) Carbon Army 'Grow your own Food Guide'!

Fancy trying out some mouth-watering recipes from Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall, Charlie Dimmock, Julia Bradbury and others? Perhaps you need some tips on what to grow and eat when? Or maybe you'd like to read about what some other BTCV Community network members have been up to on the food front.

Celebrity recipes, answers and info are all to be found in the new BTCV Carbon Army 'Grow your own Food Guide'.

This guide along with further information on the amazing work that the BTCV as well as details on how to order your own guide can be found online at www.btcv.org

Please send your amazing environmental pictures to us here at the MDT mdtmumbles@btinternet.com