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REVIEW Issue 13 August 2009 Kirkbride School celebrate first place in north Cumbria The winners of R Factor 2009 are... After months of hard work by thousands of commercial radio stations - CFM, the Bay, and Cumbrian primary school children the winners of Lakeland Radio - throughout Cumbria during July. the R Factor 2009 were finally unveiled at a glitzy live finale at the Rheged Discovery Centre near There were awards too for our runners up. Placed Penrith on June 24. second and third in the south of the county were Crosscrake Primary from Stainton and Cambridge Kirkbride Primary School from Wigton were crowned Primary from Barrow respectively. In the north were winners in the north Cumbria category with their Rosley School near Wigton and Abbeytown’s Holm song “Don’t be mean, you’ve got to be green”. The Cultram Abbey School. winners in the south of the county were Castle Park Primary School from Kendal with “Can we do it? Yes Inside is a special double page spread of the we can!”. Both songs were aired on R Factor LIVE. Also inside How are we performing? Allerdale help local kids stay safe and litter free Cumbria attend the Times Education Awards Signing on the dotted line with Shanks Hats on for Carlisle Recyclers Tackling our tourists waste Review is the partnership newsletter of Resource Cumbria. If you would like to access more information, advice and resources or even just keep up to date with what we are doing visit our website resourcecumbria.org How are we performing? Cumbria attends the Times waste education awards The chart below indicates the total household waste recycled and composted by district and by the county as a whole from April 2008 to March 2009. All figures include recycling collected via Kerbside Collection Services, Recycle Points (also known as bring sites) and Household Waste Recycling Centres. The figures On 9 June, Ian Garrow, Senior Waste Education are provided by Cumbria County Council’s Waste Management Performance Team and reported to the Officer, attended the Times Educational Supplement Department for Environment, Food and Rural Afffairs (DEFRA). (TES) Schools Awards as a guest of DEFRA’s Waste Resource Action Programme (WRAP), one of only two Local Government representatives invited. 44% ALLERDALE 56% WRAP sponsored the Sustainable School award, recycled and composted sent to landfill won by Turners Hill Primary School, West Sussex. BARROW 22% 78% recycled and composted sent to landfill The winning school has a fantastic approach to sustainability. They regularly recycle and compost. CARLISLE 48% 52% There are two wind turbines, photovoltaic roof recycled and composted sent to landfill Staying safe and litter free panels and a three-acre site with 1,750 planted trees. An outside classroom has vegetable gardens, COPELAND 35% 65% recycled and composted sent to landfill chickens and a wildlife garden. Pupils are taught Children from Allerdale had the chance to about environmentally-friendly behaviour in their explore a mocked-up building site in a bid by EDEN 47% 53% citizenship education, and an eco-committee has recycled and composted sent to landfill Allerdale Borough Council to stop them getting been formed. hurt on the real thing. SOUTH LAKELAND 46% 54% recycled and composted sent to landfill As a result of discussions and contacts made at Through the council’s child safety campaign, that event, the Waste Education Team have been organised and run by its Building Control 42% 58% asked to review the WRAP material targeted at both CUMBRIA team, around 400 year six school children from recycled and composted sent to landfill primary and secondary students, before it goes live Workington, Maryport, Cockermouth, Broughton, on their website. In addition, our work investigating Looking back Dearham, Clifton and Harrington were educated This time last year Cumbria was recycling and composting 38% of it’s waste the scale of schools’ food waste in Cumbria has about the dangers of playing on building sites. aroused the interest of WRAP and Wastewatch, The table below is your ready reckoner to waste statistics in Cumbria. The figures below relate to information who have both asked for further information as it gathered between April to March in both 2007/08 and 2008/09 to allow a like-for-like performance comparison. Waste minimisation officer Mark Studholme becomes available. also delivered a session on waste and recycling. 2007/08 2008/09 The session focused on the impact of waste on Total household waste created 262,491 tonnes 261,103 tonnes the environment and people’s lives, including a presentation about litter and recycling in Total household waste landfilled 161,380 tonnes 151,219 tonnes Allerdale. Percentage of waste recycled 22% 24% This was followed by a short talk on littering, the problems it can cause and the dangers of Percentage of waste composted 16% 18% moving vehicles, particularly refuse collection Total percentage recycled and composted 38% 42% lorries, as well as a demonstration of how recyclables and refuse are kept in different Kilograms of waste generated per head in Cumbria 529 kg 525 kg compartments of the same vehicle. Looking at LATS There was also a chance to see how recyclables are held in glass storage bunkers and baled In terms of LATS, we expect to be 48,000 tonnes in credit although this will be wiped out at the end of this for reprocessing ready for making into new year. Our estimate for the end of 2009/10 is that we will be 3000 tonnes in credit. products. Meet the members The Partnership Board meeting minutes and other documents are available at resourcecumbria.org. ouncillor Allan Holliday Councillor Tim Knowles Cumbria County Council [email protected] [email protected] Councillor Tony Markley Councillor Tony Cumbria County Council Councillor Ken Williams Councillor Ken Barrow Borough Council [email protected] Councillor Mike Tonkin Eden District Council [email protected] C Copeland Borough Council [email protected] Councillor Sam Standage Allerdale Borough Council [email protected] Councillor Brenda Woof District Council South Lakeland [email protected] Councillor Ray Bloxham Councillor Ray Carlisle City Council [email protected] 1 11111111dfgdfgasdasd2 REVIEW REVIEW 111111111dfgdfgasdasd3 The R Factor LIVE show hits town As Cumbria’s fantastic new talent quest draws to a close our 6 finalists were invited to perform their songs at the glitzy showcase finale event. Review was in attendance for The R Factor LIVE and looks back at how the project developed. Last September, Resource Cumbria challenged all Here CN radio really came into their own Next to entertain the crowd were our of Cumbria’s primary school pupils to create a and helped generate massive excitement winners, Castle Park School from Kendal song that would inspire Cumbria to reduce, reuse about the competition. Presenter talk time and with their song “Can we do it? Yes we and recycle. And just like on TV’s hit show “X simultaneous countywide broadcasts, coupled can!” and Kirkbride Primary with “Don’t Factor” it would be the public who would decide with our authentic X Factor style intros and be Mean, You’ve got to be green”. After they which song would be crowned winner. adverts, all helped to give the competition a real had raised the roof of the Rheged auditorium sense of ‘primetime’. Some of the children were with their performances they were presented with Cumbria’s R Factor project represents something even invited into the radio stations to unveil their their first prize platinum discs. The audience was quite unique in waste prevention. It utilises a songs and appeal for votes. then treated to the exclusive first play of the two popular reality TV format to not only educate professionally recorded songs prior to them being school children, but captivate the wider An incredible 5,394 votes were polled both launched countywide on Monday 27 June. Cumbrian public on the importance of the 3Rs. online and via SMS texting during finals week which eventually saw Castle Park School from Widely-renowned junk percussion band In order to deliver such a project we knew that Kendal and Kirkbride School from Kirkbride Weapons of Sound also took to the stage with we would need a little help. Resource Cumbria crowned winners and awarded their prize - a an amazingly energetic and mesmerising therefore teamed up with professional music professional recording session to enable their performance using instruments created entirely charity, MusicLinks, and CN Radio and embarked song to be played throughout Cumbria to get from recycled materials. on a mission to make the R Factor the most people reducing, reusing and recycling. exciting competition Cumbria’s primary schools Ian Garrow, Cumbria County Council’s Senior had ever seen. To celebrate the achievements of our 6 finalists Waste Education Officer, said: “The whole R Factor we invited them along to perform their tracks in competition has been a big success and I know the An amazing 139 schools signed up to take part front of a live audience at the R Factor LIVE held children have had a great time in putting together in the talent quest - half of all Cumbrian primary in Rheged’s impressive 250 seater auditorium their songs while learning about the importance schools. Those signing up were contacted by and hosted by Lakeland Radio DJ, Simon Yaxley. of reducing, reusing and recycling - an essential MusicLinks who arranged to go in and deliver And with performances on the day that would message that will hopefully stay with them for a their own tailored R Factor musical workshop have impressed even Simon Cowell himself, our lifetime.” dubbed ‘bootcamp’.