Archive for April, 2009
Paint The Town Green
If you are planning on a spring spruce up, check out the new eco friendly paints ensuring they are produced to a low VOCs. Meaning volatile organic compounds free of lead and mercury for an environmentally protection and consumer safely. They are just as affordable as any other types of paints that you would use [...]
Woodland Trust’s Tree for All campaign
4,049,615 trees have been planted so far, and more will continue throughout the campaign. Attempting to plant 12 million trees between the years of 2004-2009, The Woodland Trust created a big challenge, but already has been successful. They want to include one million children in the effort- from schools, community groups, public events or in [...]
Birmingham fails to act on the Earth Hour campaign
As the rest of the world celebrated the global “switch off” campaign, the West Midlands seemed less than enthused to join in. Failing to promote the environmental campaign throughout the region, Birmingham City Council assured their input was substantial enough when the lights were turned off in the city’s council houses in Victoria Square and [...]
Northfield Ecocentre opens with a bang
Over 50 people attendended this week’s opening of the Northfield Ecocentre , with a royal guest, Deputy Lord Mayor Randal Brew planting the first of many fruit trees. Georgia Stokes, Northfield Ecocentre coordinator, commented: “We had a fantastic day. We were amazed by the number of people who came & their enthusiasm for the Ecocentre. Thank [...]
Car Scrap Schemes
Motorists may soon be able to exchange their old cars for new cars. The Government have the incentive to press ahead with a ‘Car Scrap Scheme’. It could see £2000 worth of vouchers handed out to replace vehicles nine years old or more. A scheme of this kind has been successful in Germany. France and [...]
Birmingham has ‘can do’ attitude for workplace recycling.
Birmingham has been specially chosen as the city to launch a new ‘Every Can Counts’ scheme that encourages workers to recycle used drink cans. This new campaign headed by Advantage West Midlands (www.advantagewm.co.uk) will see Birmingham at the forefront of recycling in national workplace recycling throughout the UK. Businesses and workplaces throughout the city will be encouraged to recycle [...]
This week on Birmingham Recycled
It’s holiday season and hopefully everyone is enjoying Easter and not doing too much hard work. There has been a few interesting stories on the site this week including our second Birmingham Recycled podcast, a 25 minute interview with Chris Unitt about a possible solution to climate change. So if you haven’t had the chance [...]
Birmingham International awaits newly approved Airport Extension
Solihull council has approved plans for an extension to take place at Birminghams International Airport. The council met last night to discuss the plans and thus concluded with the go ahead of the estimated £120m plans to extend the current runway by a massive 400m. The idea of the extension is to allow larger aircrafts [...]