Image by Rich Baybutt. Words by Rach Coleman One of the things that drew me most to working at TFT was the organisational objective of obsolescence . Even in its nascent form 4.5 years ago when I joined the team, it still felt completely unique across the outdoor and environment sector. It's this idea that we are aiming to make ourselves redundant as an organisation - to get to a point where the 7 of us who sit behind desks and travel hundreds of miles about the country deli

Trash Free Races took us to some incredible places last year. We’re very grateful to be able to laugh, play games, engage, chat and listen to a lot of people at those events. For reasons out of our control or explanation, every now and then, one conversation sticks a little more than others. The knock on effect of one conversation in particular has resulted in a new roving Community Hub and 7138 items of single-use pollution removed and reported by one power couple in Calder

Words by Heather Friendship-Kay Photos by Pete Scullion. I sat in the cafe, looking out at the sun glinting through the trees, the birds on the feeders, before turning back to Dom. “So we want to invoice each brand for the number of items of their packaging we have removed…” my mind boggled, “How many volunteer hours can be attributed to that brand - what the cost to nature is - and how much it has cost Trash Free Trails? Would the current pEPR legislation allow for that?” Th