SUSTAINABILITY WEDNESDAY

Recycling: The Scrunch Test

It can often be very confusing to know what can and can’t be recycled. One method that can be used for checking plastic and foil is the scrunch test. Simply scrunch the wrapper in your hand and if it remains scrunched in a ball it is recyclable.
Whilst some local authorities may not yet have the ability to recycle soft/flexible (scrunchy) plastics, you can often take these to your local supermarket and drop them into the big bins near the entrance. These bins take everything from carrier bags, and wrappers from fruit, veg biscuits, rice, and pasta, etc. As long as it is clean and scrunchy!
With Easter around the corner and many of us likely to be gifting, or receiving, chocolate eggs and Lindt bunnies wrapped in foil, before throwing your (clean) foil into the recycling bin, wait until you’ve got about a tennis ball sized amount. It makes the recycling process easier and more efficient.

…

Here are some photos of yesterday wellbeing art sessions held at Kidderminster. Another 14 of our own budding artists took part, once again using Liquitex or Galeria acrylic paint on W&N canvas board, all under the tuition of demonstration artist Leanne Ellis. Twenty-six people took part and everyone finished their 2 hour session with a completed painting. Also below, there’s a photo of 23 of the 26 finished paintings (three visiting staff took theirs home after the first day’s painting so weren’t available for the group shot.) It was a great couple of days, many were a little nervous and apprehensive at the start but very quickly relaxed and had a thoroughly enjoyable couple of hours painting and it left many wanting to do it again! High 5 to everyone who had a go and producing some great paintings.

…

Little wink for L&B and W&N who are present at the Brussels comic strip museum with their aerosol fixative varnish in a showcase where we can observe a cartoonist’s workshop … 😉

…

Lefranc Bourgeois est ravi d’accompagner les Aristotes du collège Henry Lefeuvre du Mans, pour leur projet compétitif « Course en cours » !
L’équipe doit concevoir une voiture de course électrique miniature, et trouver ses sponsors pour élaborer son stand et sa campagne de communication.
Les Aristotes porteront donc les couleurs de Lefranc Bourgeois pour cette belle aventure !
Tous nos encouragements pour la première phase de qualification le 29 avril !
@Stephane Baudet

Lefranc Bourgeois is proud to support the Aristotes from the Henry Lefeuvre middle school in Le Mans, for their competitive project “race in progress”!
The team must design a miniature electric racing car and find its own sponsors to develop its stand and its communication campaign.
The Aristotes will wear the colors of Lefranc Bourgeois for this great adventure!
All our encouragement for the first qualifying phase on April 29!

…

Day 1 of the two day wellbeing acrylic paint tutorials on site at Kidderminster has finished with some amazing creations. We had six students per session and here they are proudly displaying their works of art. Each 2 hour session was led by demonstration artist Leanne Ellis and most started their class looking slightly apprehensive and feeling worried they couldn’t paint or draw but everyone had a great time and the results are absolutely outstanding. Well done to all who took part, tomorrow we have another 2 classes to look forward to.

…