{"id":213,"date":"2018-01-09T15:06:01","date_gmt":"2018-01-09T15:06:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gecco.org.uk\/blog\/?p=213"},"modified":"2026-03-26T11:40:57","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T11:40:57","slug":"1000-saving-per-year-for-day-nurseries-and-pre-schools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gecco.org.uk\/blog\/2018\/01\/09\/1000-saving-per-year-for-day-nurseries-and-pre-schools\/","title":{"rendered":"\u00a31,000 saving per year for day nurseries and pre-schools"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"et_pb_section_0 et_pb_section et_section_regular et_block_section\"><div class=\"et_pb_row_0 et_pb_row et_block_row\"><div class=\"et_pb_column_0 et_pb_column et_pb_column_4_4 et-last-child et_block_column et_pb_css_mix_blend_mode_passthrough\"><div class=\"et_pb_text_0 et_pb_text et_pb_bg_layout_light et_pb_module et_block_module\"><div class=\"et_pb_text_inner\"><p><strong>Save money and help the planet. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Stop buying plastic aprons, gloves, straws, blu tack, shoe covers, glitter, balloons, sellotape, plastic wallets, and save about 14% of your consumables bill. And this includes replacing essentials with longer lasting products - like cloth aprons. You'll also save on stock taking, ordering time, delivery costs - diesel, tyre wear, unpacking, bookkeeping, not to mention not using up finite resources used to make the plastic, and waste management and costs once it goes in the bin, priceless! Happy Christmas!<\/p>\n<p>Apologies to manufacturers and distributors - but instead perhaps you could supply us with equipment we can rent and return when it ends its effective life - such as washing machines, driers, photocopiers, hand dryers and you can re-furbish it, or recycle it. We don't need to own all this stuff any more.<\/p>\n<p>We are in the market for 20 composters so we don't have to pay to have our waste food taken away.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">- Cheryl Hadland<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"et_pb_section_1 et_pb_section et_section_regular et_block_section\"><div class=\"et_pb_row_1 et_pb_row et_block_row\"><div class=\"et_pb_column_1 et_pb_column et_pb_column_&quot;4_4&quot; et-last-child et_block_column et_pb_css_mix_blend_mode_passthrough\"><div class=\"et_pb_with_border et_pb_module et_d4_element et_pb_team_member et_pb_team_member_0 clearfix  et_pb_bg_layout_light\">\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"et_pb_team_member_image et-waypoint et_pb_animation_off  et_pb_css_mix_blend_mode\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\" alt=\"&quot;Cheryl\" class=\"et_multi_view_hidden_image\" \/><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"et_pb_team_member_description\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h4 class=\"et_pb_module_header\">&quot;Cheryl<\/h4>\n\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"et_pb_member_position\">&quot;GECCO<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div><p>Cheryl Hadland (MA Ed) is Managing Director of the Hadland Care Group - an umbrella company for Tops Day Nurseries and Aspire Training Team, Bournemouth. In 2018 she was named 'most influential person in childcare' at the NMT Top 20 National Nursery awards, and in the same year completed a Sustainable Leadership course at the University of Cambridge. Cheryl is an avid SCUBA diver with many years experience and has seen first-hand the devastating impact of plastic pollution on our oceans and the creatures that live in them.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3610,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"<p>Save money and help the planet.<\/p><p>\"Stop buying plastic aprons, gloves, straws, bluetak, shoe covers, glitter, balloons, sellotape, plastic wallets, and save about 14% of your consumables bill.\u00a0And this includes replacing essentials with longer last products - like cloth aprons.\u00a0Also save on stock taking, ordering time, delivery costs - diesel, tyre wear, unpacking, book keeping, not to mention not using up finite resources used to make the plastic, and waste management and costs once it goes in the bin, priceless! Happy Christmas!<\/p><p>Apologies to manufacturers and distributors - but instead perhaps you could supply us with equipment we can rent and return when it ends its effective life - such as washing machines, driers, photocopiers, hand dryers and you can re-furbish it, or recycle it.\u00a0We don't need to own all this stuff any more.\u00a0We are in the market for 20 composters so we don't have to pay to have our waste food taken away.\" - Cheryl Hadland<\/p>","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-curriculum-practice","category-environmental-sustainability"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gecco.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gecco.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gecco.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gecco.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gecco.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=213"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gecco.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13692,"href":"https:\/\/gecco.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213\/revisions\/13692"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gecco.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3610"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gecco.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gecco.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gecco.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}