Nottingham City Council Recycling .. .... Bottom of the Class again!
Jon Beresford | 03.01.2007 20:11 | Climate Chaos | Social Struggles
In a recycling rate league table just released by the Government, Nottingham City Council came an embarrassing 339th out of 393 local authorities, with a combined recycling and composting rate of just 18.6 per cent for 2004-05.
Nottingham's Recycling rate is less that 3 per cent higher than the worst performing authority in the UK, Tower Hamlets. But it doesn't have to be this way, if next door neighbours Rushcliffe can achieved the second highest rate just short of 50 per cent, why can't Nottingham?
Why, well unfortunately Nottingham City Council choose to incinerate our waste at Eastcroft incinerator in the city centre. Eastcroft is the worst performing incinerator in the UK, with a history of pollution breaches, warnings from the Environment Agency and history of breakdowns and technical problems.
Instead of recycling and saving the earths dwindling resources, our City Council choose to pollute our environment with climate change gases, toxic heavy metals and dioxins, the most cancerous group of poisons known to man.
What can you do? Apart from the obvious and reduce, reuse and recycle your waste, tell Nottingham City Council and your councillor what you think, remind them that they are all up for election in May, ask them what are their plans to improve on this appalling situation.
Contact the City Council at;
www.nottinghamcity.gov.uk/wt_contact_us_main_form_/contact_customer_services.htm
View the league table at;
www.letsrecycle.com/info/localauth/league/2005ranked.jsp
Join NAIL (Nottingham Against Incineration and Landfill) and help us campaign to prevent a third incineration being built in the city.
Jon Beresford
NAIL (Nottingham Against Incineration and Landfill)
Jon Beresford
e-mail:
Mail@nail.uk.net
Homepage:
http://www.nail.uk.net
Additions
Nottingham Freecycle - an alternative to landfil
19.02.2007 11:43
We now have almost 4000 members on the Nottingham list who, instead of taking items to landfil, offer them on the list to anyone who wants them.
How it works:
You have an item you no longer want, you put an offer up on the list advertising this item. Anyone who is interested then emails you and asks you for that item. Whoever you choose out of those emails you mail back and they come to your house and collect it... FREE OF CHARGE.
No money exchanges hands and our landfils are saved from yet another dumping session.
If you would like to see what we are about take a look on our website which is
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/nottingham_freecycle/ Thanks for reading and lets hope we can minimize what does end up on our landfils !!!
Paula
Nottingham Freecycle List Owner
Paula
e-mail:
nottingham_freecycle-owner@yahoogroups.com
Homepage:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/nottingham_freecycle/
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