Aberdare Blog started as an experiment in communicating views of Aberdare and views from Aberdare. It remains an experiment in communication open to participation. Jane from Mountain Ash blogged the lead story on the Mountain Ash Opencast plans this week. Why not blog your own story from Aberdare today ?
Here is a list of the Top 100 tags used to describe posts on Aberdare Blog… if we haven’t blogged on a subject close to your heart, you can fix that yourself. If you prefer to blog a story with photos or video, that’ll do nicely thank you, send them today.
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A Note on Cafe Cymru History
Cafe Cymru is a discussion forum which started life early in 2006. It was originally named Freecycle-CafeCymru and provided a discussion forum for the Freecycle free recycling groups which were forming all across Wales.
Cafe Cymru ran smoothly for nearly seven months until September 2006, when things started going terribly wrong within Freecycle in Wales.
“Freecycle” is a trademark named owned by an American business called the Freecycle Network, and therefore in late September 2006, the name of Cafe Cymru was changed to avoid any association with this trademark.
For the same reason Rhondda Cynon Taff Freecycle changed its name to avoid being controlled by the American business, the Freecycle Network.
People seem to be getting wise to the true...
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The Freecycle Network is an American business that runs freecycling groups across Wales, including Cardiff Freecycle currently Wales’ largest freecycling group.
Rhondda Cynon Taff Ecycle is NOT a part of the (American) Freecycle Network (or TFN). We are an independent local group, owned, run, and managed by local people.
Perhaps it is time we wrote a brief ‘history’ for our group now that we are nearly two years old.
Many freecyclers are unaware of the controversies surrounding the American Freecycle Network. Below is a brief summary taken from Wikipedia. Feel free to add to the article at Wikipedia.
Freecycle Network Controversies
* Corporate Sponsorship - In February 2005, Deron Beal accepted TFN’s first corporate support of $130,000 from Waste Management,...
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Recycler and former railway worker Robert Grady was surprised to find a specialist railway manual offered on his local Rhondda Cynon Taff recently… Robert is an ex-railway guardsman who worked on the Valleys railway lines for many years.
As a conductor working across the Valleys railway lines, Robert carried this manual, and others, as part of his every day work load. “It’s a specialist manual called the National Routeing Guide so I was surprised to find it being freecycled,” said Robert.
“My wife Caroline and I learned to freecycle from my children… and we prefer to recycle rather than bin things… it’s such a waste.”
“We caught the train today. It was great to visit Aberdare once again.”
Photograph : Caroline and Robert Grady from Porth, in Rhondda Cynon......
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We’ve invested* thousands of pounds in a new corporate Freecycling logo..
The sofa photo was taken near Baverstock’s Hotel on the road above Llwydcoed.
* No we don’t waste money on daft corporate logos, like some ‘recycling’ groups we could mention....
Some useful seasonal advice from Waste Awareness Wales :
To help reduce the impact our celebrations will have on the environment this year, Waste Awareness Wales has compiled a set of handy hints and tips:
* Why not use festive items such as holly, mistletoe, sprigs and branches, pine cones and berries to decorate your home - make your own Christmas decorations and don’t forget to recycle or compost them afterwards;
* Buy recycled – there are plenty of unique gifts available that have been made from recycled materials. Alternatively, cut down on heavily packaged items by giving someone a gift experience such as theatre tickets or you could even sponsor an animal;
* Compost your vegetable peelings – instead of throwing away all those vegetable peelings, put them to good use by...
