Top retail supermarkets team up with RWM for this year’s exhibition
This year’s Recycling Waste Management Exhibition (RWM) is creeping closer and closer to Birmingham’s NEC with less than an month to go before the big launch.
Set to take place on 15 – 17 September, RWM have prepared for a highly informative and interesting exhibition concerning environmental issues, with over exhibitors, a live recycling plant on [...]
Nappucino mornings aim to decrease landfill waste in Birmingham
Last Tuesday saw the introduction of a series of Nappucino mornings held specially for parents within Birmingham.
The event took place at Cocks Moors Woods Leisure Centre at 1:30pm hosted by the recycling department of Birmingham City Council.
The first Nappucino morning was focused on introducing the more recycle friendly ‘Real Nappy’ (which is reusable unlike the [...]
Cadbury’s future looking green.
Being one of the largest companies and manufacturer’s in the UK hasn’t made Cadbury forget about or desregard the importance of their carbon and enviromental footprint.
Launching the ‘Purple Goes Green’ initative back in 2007, Cadbury are looking ahead to the future and have set out a series of goals and targets they hope to achieve by [...]
Recycling & Waste Management Exhibition 2009.
From the 15th-17th of September, Birmingham’s very own NEC Arena will host the yearly Recycling & Waste Management Exhibition.
This UK event see’s the biggest players and companies in the waste and recycling field take over the Birmingham arena. Along with hundreds of stalls demonstrating areas of the industry such as products, brands and management technique, there is a [...]
Council cracks down on out of town recyclers
July 2009 has seen the introduction of the ‘Proof of Residency Scheme’ by Birmingham City Council in order to stop members of other councils from using Household recycling facilities specifically for Birmingham residents and encourage them to use their own!
The councils plan is to have residents verbally announce their postcode when arriving at a recycle [...]
Midlanders can Tweet for charity
The world’s first Twitterthon will be taking place tomorrow (Tuesday 16th June) at 11AM, where Computer Aid (or @Computer_Aid) will be campaigning for an ambitious 1,000 donations of old computers in four hours to help schools and hospitals in the developing world.
Birmingham Recycled has previously spoken about how people in the Midlands can donate old [...]
Eco Schools
Today is Britain’s first ever ‘Green Day’ which over 30,000 pupils across the country will be taking part in! Green Day gives pupils the chance to discuss environmental issues and put into practice making their school more sustainable.
Pupils are encouraged to wear a green item of clothing to school and to walk or cycle from [...]
Londoners need help getting greener!
Residents of Birmingham will be pleased to know that despite being renowned for many things we might not be so proud of, ‘brummies’ are not so bad at recycling!
Surely our capital city should be setting a good example, but in fact recycling rates in London are among the lowest in the UK. Whilst the city’s [...]