Greener Orkney was invited to an event at the Stromness Co-op on 18th November.  Also present were the charities currently benefiting from Co-op funding as well as other groups that have been involved with the Co-op Community Partnership over the last year. Greener...

At the AGM on 7th October, Jessica Mather, Marine Litter Development Officer - Northern Isles for SIF, gave a talk on the importance of recording the type as well as the amount of beach litter gathered on our beach cleans. You can download the presentation here.

Greener Orkney's Slow Cooker Project is now formally closed.  Between November 2022 and March 2023, we distributed more than 300 slow cookers (including 56 to the isles) and 140 recipe books. This was made possible by an £8,000 grant from the Community Led Local...

We do hope you will be able to come and join us for the Greener Orkney AGM on Saturday 7th October 2023 at 4.30pm at the King Street Halls in Kirkwall. It has been an exciting year and we plan to do more going forwards to help Orkney reduce its climate footprint....

Greener Orkney Beach Cleans The Big SIF Summer Beach Litter Data Collection

Greener Orkney is just letting you know that Stromness Museum is partnering with THAW and EMEC to host a ‘Springboard’ Creative Climate Assembly, with workshops delivered by Creative Carbon Scotland.  It will be a space for culture/heritage/arts and environmental...

There is a job opening at the SIF Marine Litter Working Group - please follow this link for details.  Applications must be in by Sunday, 18th June.

Greener Orkney, as a member of the SIF Marine Litter Working Group was part of the group led by Dr Anna Wilson from Glasgow University on the project to work with local communities on looking at the marine litter and what future generations may think about them in the...

Greener Orkney helped organise Bag the Bruck in April this year. In total over 820 bags of bruck were collected and over 1,000 pairs of gloves were distributed in addition to 19 groups providing their own gloves. There were also some bags of items for recycling...

Greener Orkney is a key member of the Scottish Islands Federation (SIF) Beach litter working group. Last winter there was a data gathering exercise where seven beach cleans were carried out in Orkney and the products collected sampled. The data identified the types of...