Shropshire leading the way in sustainability

Shropshire County Council is currently involved with a wide range of projects addressing sustainability.

The council aims to lead by example:

• Working to reduce its climate change emissions through its own energy use.
• When buying goods and services considering the environmental, social and economic impacts across the life span of the product.
• Trying to increase its recycling, reduce its wastes and encourage others to do the same.
• Enabling sustainable or local suppliers to supply of food for school meals helping to develop a successful local economy.
• Promoting low energy lighting to staff through the Light Fantastic Scheme.

The council aims to educate children and adults through:

• Running the Mike Sprackling Award Scheme and assisting the Shropshire Rural hub in coordinating the Year of Food and Farming in Education.
• Integrating sustainable development into the school curriculum, supporting the Ecoschools programme and the Sustainable Schools agenda.
• Carrying out awareness raising campaigns on issues such as waste minimisation, saving energy and sustainable transport.
• Working in partnership with other agencies who have direct contact with a range of people.

The council aims to enable residents to live more sustainably by:

• Working with communities to reduce their impact on climate change.
• Promoting and developing sustainable transport such as walking, cycling and car-sharing.
• Supporting local business networks such as Shropshire’s food and drink industry.
• Administrating the Aggregates Levy Sustainability Fund, a grant scheme for community projects in areas affected by aggregates extraction.

Follow the links on this page to find out more information about projects Shropshire is, and has been, involved with.
If you would like to find out how you can get involved please follow the link “what can I do?”