CAMDEN RESIDENTS ARE RECYCLING MORE THAN EVER

21/6/06

Photographs including real nappy babies and ‘give and take days’ are available from the Camden Council Press Office on 020 7974 5719.

Local residents have recycled more waste than ever before - more than 27 per cent of household rubbish in 2005-6.

Last year residents in the borough helped Camden Council recycle a grand total of 19,580 tonnes of trash, equivalent to the weight of 1400 London buses or 3265 African elephants1.

Whilst this is a great achievement, the council is encouraging local people to keep up the good work, and making it easy for them to recycle even more. The council aims to recycle 30 per cent of the borough’s waste by the end of 2006-7, to help improve the environment locally and globally.

The number of residents requesting green boxes or bags has more than doubled over the last year2. All households, except for some blocks of flats, can now use the kerb-side service to recycle plastic bottles and cardboard as well as paper, cans and glass. Residents can also use the 326 recycling units provided on housing estates.

Cllr Mike Greene, Executive Member for Environment, Camden Council, said:

“I’d like to thank local residents for such great efforts to reduce, reuse and recycle their rubbish. Camden Council has a good record on recycling but there is a lot more we can do, and many more improvements we can make. We will be looking at ways of encouraging retail businesses to get involved and recycle more, plus continuing to step up our educational work with all local schools.”

Young people are already getting in on the recycling act, with all 85 Camden schools having a recycling option on site, and a number of schools taking up the council’s ‘Little Rotters’ scheme to install wormeries for composting other waste.

More and more green-fingered residents are using composting bins, with almost 800 delivered to residents during the last year. Other residents have reduced their waste, with the number of people taking up Camden Council’s £54 subsidy to use ‘real nappies’ instead of disposables, rising sharply over the last year3.

Residents have also started to reuse what they might otherwise have thrown away. Hundreds of local people thronged to the council’s ‘Give and Take’ days, community events at which people bring along an item they want to get rid of and exchange it for something else that takes their fancy.

Camden Council’s recycling results for 2005-6 were presented in a report to the Executive (Environment) Sub Group meeting yesterday evening (20 June). For more details see:

http://www3.camden.gov.uk/templates/committees/showcommitteedetail.cfm?committee=305

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