To support local businesses and organisations to engage with the Green Living Plan, the Thame Sustainability Champion Awards were launched in March 2025 as a partnership project between Thame Town Council and 21st Century Thame. The award is designed to celebrate local businesses and organisations committed to sustainable practices – encouraging them to not only … Read more
Lea Park Residents Association led a successful campaign locally to oppose Moorend Farm as a location for a new recycling plant for demolition!
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Eight easy ways to reduce your Christmas carbon footprint.
In January 2021 a BRAND new litter picking group Thame Wombles was established and instantly overwhelmed with support. Tidy-minded Thame residents collected more than 40 large refuse sacks of litter from streets and hedgerows in and around Thame within the first 2 weeks of the group’s existence. Alongside many drinks cans and crisp wrappers, items … Read more
On Saturday 12th December, the 12th door of the Thame Advent Calendar was opened and those lucky enough to be in Thame High Street were treated to a visit of a magical polar bear. With a body handcrafted from 86 upcycled plastic milk containers by Thame resident, Kay Sentance, the polar bear brought a smile … Read more
We are lucky in South Oxfordshire to have brilliant support from the local District Council to enable us to recycle a lot of our waste from our doordsteps. The South Oxfordshire website has all the information you need about this. But…what about those ‘unrecyclables’ that they are not able to provide a doorstep solution to? … Read more
There are lots of great online resources for upcycled craft ideas – it’s amazing what you can make from waste! Below are some favourite ideas shared by the team at The Red Kite Family Centre. We always love making this simple reindeer picture frame with families during December – all you need is a cardboard … Read more
It’s the thought that counts more than anything, but here in the Love Thame Hate Waste team, we have to admit we do love beautifully wrapped gifts, both giving and receiving. And if the beautiful wrapping does happen to use recycled materials, it doesn’t get better than that! Here are some ideas we found which … Read more
Food and drink play such a significant part to Christmas celebrations – Turkey dinner with all the trimmings, mince pies, drinking mulled wine… and over 270,000 tones of food waste! Every day, we throw away 20 million slices of bread, 4.4 million potatoes, 5.2 million glasses of milk and 0.9 million bananas. And every year, … Read more
My name is Zara and I have lived in Thame my whole life. I work for Oxfam in the Festivals & Events team and I love shopping second hand, in fact I love it so much I haven’t brought new clothes for well over a year! I also love shopping second hand at Christmas because … Read more