We organised a large private funfair for the Student Loans Company at their new HQ in Darlington last weekend (30 March 2008). We used the event to launch the first phase of our new environmental policy.
None of us knew what sort of notice the patrons would take of the various recycling stations we had placed around the site and at the various catering units, but I have to admit to being pleasantly surprised, with a couple of minor exceptions virtually all of the rubbish created at the event was placed in the correct bin. At the end of the day we were left with around 12 bins full of recyclable rubbish and 6 of non recyclable. Ideally we would like to be able to recycle everything, but for the first attempt we had still reduced the level of waste going to landfill by two thirds, compared to what it would have been previously.
The day before the Darlington event we had presented 4 attractions at a private wedding in the Derby area. On the way to the venue the value of our cheap Garmin sat nav proved itself yet again. The high tech Tom Tom I was using got us to within half a mile of the venue but it still took us around half an hour to actually find it. The cheaper Garmin unit took the driver straight to the gate of the field the event was being held in, it doesn't play music, games, do funny voices, it just gets you from A to B with the minimum of fuss. The wedding was like most wedding we have attended, real fun. The bride at this one was of Irish heritage, and I have to say her Irish brethren knew how to enjoy themselves. A ceilidh band playing Irish music had the whole room bouncing.
After the event, we found that due to heavy rain our transit van was marooned. It took Paul (a member of staff) and I around 20 minutes to use skidmats to extricate the van from the field. As we were almost onto the hard ground I put my foot down to ensure the van kept going, as I did so I heard a muffled howl. When I finally reached the road, I stopped to wait for Paul, only to see a tall mud coloured apparition lurching towards me. As it came nearer it turned into a roughly Paul shaped thing. Seemed he had been standing directly behind a wheel when I put my foot down and the resulting spray of mud from the spinning wheel covered him from head to toe. We had to stop while Paul got changed and I laughed so much I cried.
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None of us knew what sort of notice the patrons would take of the various recycling stations we had placed around the site and at the various catering units, but I have to admit to being pleasantly surprised, with a couple of minor exceptions virtually all of the rubbish created at the event was placed in the correct bin. At the end of the day we were left with around 12 bins full of recyclable rubbish and 6 of non recyclable. Ideally we would like to be able to recycle everything, but for the first attempt we had still reduced the level of waste going to landfill by two thirds, compared to what it would have been previously.
The day before the Darlington event we had presented 4 attractions at a private wedding in the Derby area. On the way to the venue the value of our cheap Garmin sat nav proved itself yet again. The high tech Tom Tom I was using got us to within half a mile of the venue but it still took us around half an hour to actually find it. The cheaper Garmin unit took the driver straight to the gate of the field the event was being held in, it doesn't play music, games, do funny voices, it just gets you from A to B with the minimum of fuss. The wedding was like most wedding we have attended, real fun. The bride at this one was of Irish heritage, and I have to say her Irish brethren knew how to enjoy themselves. A ceilidh band playing Irish music had the whole room bouncing.
After the event, we found that due to heavy rain our transit van was marooned. It took Paul (a member of staff) and I around 20 minutes to use skidmats to extricate the van from the field. As we were almost onto the hard ground I put my foot down to ensure the van kept going, as I did so I heard a muffled howl. When I finally reached the road, I stopped to wait for Paul, only to see a tall mud coloured apparition lurching towards me. As it came nearer it turned into a roughly Paul shaped thing. Seemed he had been standing directly behind a wheel when I put my foot down and the resulting spray of mud from the spinning wheel covered him from head to toe. We had to stop while Paul got changed and I laughed so much I cried.
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