REVIEW Issue 8 November 2007
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REVIEW Issue 8 November 2007 COVER STORY ..t Here to help Graham Harrison helps out at a HWRC Find out how Resource Cumbria are helping Cumbrian kitchens Also inside Purple bags come to Allerdale JMWMS goes out for consultation Swedish for recycling Chinese delegation visits Cumbria Award winning communities Safer streets in Barrow 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 The table below highlights our performance so far this year. The percentages are the combined recycling and composting rates. Meet the Purple bags 1st Qtr 2nd Qtr members come to Allerdale Allerdale 41.5% 37.19% Barrow 25.69% 22.46% Here are the councillors who make Allerdale Borough Council will shortly be introducing up the Resource Cumbria partnership a new recycling collection scheme to areas of the Carlisle 49.28% 49.36% board. borough – the mixed collection of glass bottles and jars, metal cans and plastic bottles from individual Copeland 36.31% 34.84% properties. k Keeping the streets safe. Katherine and the rest of the team Eden 56.45% 54.11% k The new fortnightly collection from the kerbside will complement the existing paper, card and garden 42.71% 42.38% Council SLDC Council waste collections from these households, giving @allerdale.gov.u Hitting the Cumbria 42.39% 40.41% residents the opportunity to recycle the majority of Borough Borough their waste easily. source: BVPI Waste Management Report. streets in Barrow Councillor Dave Roberts Barrow [email protected] Help us to reduce LATS fines and keep our environment beautiful. Councillor Sam Standage Allerdale sam.standage The scheme will start in south Workington, Please recycle as much as you can! Harrington, Seaton, Broughton, Camerton and areas Engaging the public is one of the key roles of of Keswick. Initially there will be 13,000 properties our Recycling Rangers, so when the opportunity k on the scheme and it will be extended from there. It is presented itself to become involved with the hoped that around 39,000 properties will be on this If you require this information in any other format (e.g. audio k Streetsafe project, Barrow and SLDC ranger, Council cassette or large type) or in another language please telephone type of collection within 3 years. Katharine Smith seized it with open arms. 01229 894401. Council Borough It won’t be necessary to separate these materials, “Streetsafe is a fantastic project” Katharine said. City they can all be placed out for collection in the same “The idea behind it is to tackle local community ouncillor Geoff Blackwell disposable purple bag. We will collect them in a problems at a local level. Streetsafe operations [email protected] C [email protected] Copeland Councillor Ray Bloxham Councillor Ray Carlisle r standard refuse collection vehicle; our contractor will are taking place all over Barrow and South separate them for recycling later using a variety of Lakeland with involvement from the police, magnets, screens and blowers. the fire brigade, environmental health, the k refuse collection contractors and now Resource k The idea is to make recycling as easy as possible for Council Cumbria.” the residents of Allerdale. This type of system is also District very efficient in terms of collection – no specialist The streetsafe operation involves targeting certain Council vehicle is required, collections can be carried out streets within a particular area and interviewing quickly and easily and the more time consuming Lakeland District residents about their concerns which can range sorting is done at the recycling facility. from anything from anti-social behaviour to dog- Councillor Bryan Metz Eden [email protected] Councillor Brenda Woof South [email protected] fouling. Katharine has been using the opportunity For information on the scheme, feel free to contact a to ask residents about their views on recycling. k member of the recycling team at Allerdale on 01900 k 702964 or visit the web site allerdale.gov.uk “Basically I’ve been asking residents if they recycle already, what issues they might have with recycling and also whether they would like me to Council Council REVIEW contact them to discuss their issues.” Katharine explained. County County Thank you “People usually tend to have issues with their Councillor Ian Stewart Cumbria [email protected] Thank you to everybody who contributed ideas, Councillor Jack Richardson Cumbria [email protected] kerbside collection or simply need a new features and time to this edition of review. recycling container. So it’s a great time to make sure that people are using the recycling Photography The Partnership Board meeting minutes services that the council provides. About half of the residents interviewed often ask for more WRAP and other documents are available at resourcecumbria.org information on local recycling issues proving that Allerdale Borough Council people are keen to find out even more about Cumbria County Council recycling and what else they can do.” Steve Barber Cumbrian Newspapers Ltd 1 11111111dfgdfgasdasd2 REVIEW REVIEW 111111111dfgdfgasdasd3 JMWMS goes out for Here to help. Consultation How we deal with our waste now and in the future is one of the biggest challenges we face. The Joint Municipal Waste Management Strategy for Cumbria sets out the issues we face and looks to the future. The first draft of the strategy has now been published and is currently out for public consultation. As well as being distributed to various stakeholders, it has also been made available in all of Cumbria’s 53 libraries, and is even available to download via resourcecumbria.org. Anybody who reads or downloads the Head of Cumbria County Council’s JMWMS is then invited to offer their comment and opinion. All of these Waste Management Department does a shift at a HWRC. views are extremely important and Resource Cumbria will review each and every one before publishing the It’s 8am on a drizzly October morning. Joe, Mike, Adrian and Stu are doing the final strategy document. usual routine to get their Household Waste Recycling Centre (HWRC), Bousteads The consultation process is open Grassing in Carlisle, ready for the day’s recycling. Trying not to get in the way is until the 10 December. After this new boy, Graham Harrison. date the results will be consolidated and analysed. A report summarising the results of this consultation “These places are great. There’s so much good done “I’m really proud of the lads here, as I am with will be available to download at here” said Graham about Bousteads Grassing HWRC. everybody involved in waste management in Cumbria” resourcecumbria.org on 31 January “It’s clear that people don’t just come here to dump said Graham. “Make no mistake about it, we face a 2008 rubbish in skips, they come to recycle and there’s a challenge, but we’re rising to it, and the results are big difference. Just this morning a guy came in with a clear to see.” microwave. He was aggrieved to dump it and told me it worked perfectly and joked that his wife just fancied “The waste management industry in Cumbria has a new one. I explained that we collect things like this undergone tremendous change since I became Resource and when we have enough a local company, Impact involved just 2 short years ago” said Graham. “We’ve Cumbria reduce Housing, come along to collect them and put them all undergone a recycling revolution as people have • reuse • recycle to good use.” become more aware and indeed involved in the resourcecumbria.org issues. Like everybody we’ve had to keep up. I’ve seen Cumbria Strategic Over 600 cars a day use Boustead’s during the our team in the council grow from 3 to 13, and the Waste Partnership weekend. “We used to get as many as 1000 a development of Resource Cumbria, our partnership day” Joe explained “But this was before the County with the other authorities. Even today we’re moving into Joint Municipal Waste Management Strategy Council’s permit scheme which stops traders using new territory with our new waste partner, Shanks. I’m 2007 – 2020 the site.” Previously, the council tax payer was bearing constantly learning and I love that. I feel privileged to the cost of landfilling commercial waste, thanks to the be in the position I’m in.” Draft for Public Consultation introduction of the permit scheme it is estimated that a saving of £1.26 million will be made this financial When asked what they thought of the new boy, Mike year alone. “Mind you, it’s got a little busier of late, I said “yeah he’s really keen and a good worker, he can reckon we take in about twice as many bottles since have a job”; Adrian chipped in with “We’ll have to get the smoking ban came in. It’s good that people are him back on Sunday; the weekend is when it’s really remembering to recycle when they have a few beers at busy.” Graham unfortunately had to decline the offer home.” “sorry boys, I’m on a course on Sunday”. He always warm welcome and also for letting him do all the work. the all do him letting for also and welcome warm was a keen golfer. the for lads the to you thank big a out send to like would Graham Phew! 1 11111111dfgdfgasdasd 1 11111111dfgdfgasdasd4 REVIEW REVIEW 111111111dfgdfgasdasd5 Martin at a WEEE collection point in Umea Swedish Sad, isn’ t it? for recycling Having been sponsored by the North West Improvement Network, Waste Education Officer Martin Allman has recently returned from a study Resource Cumbria gets to grips with the county’s kitchen waste in our latest visit to the municipality of Umea, Sweden, to venture, ‘Love Food Hate Waste’.