Friends of the Earth respond to Nectar recycling reward scheme
Joe Peacock of Birmingham Friends of the Earth has responded to news of Birmingham City Council’s pilot Nectar point reward scheme for recycling:
“Incentives are a small step in the right direction and we are glad that the council recognise that we need to increase recycling rates. It is a shame that this has to be done through Nectar, meaning more money going into big chain stores rather than local, independent shops who tend to have a better record of using less packaging and producing less waste.
Generally, we need to reduce the complexity of recycling and collect more recyclable waste more often to ensure it doesn’t go into black bags and get burned instead.
Councils need to reduce the frequency of black bag waste collections so long as they increase the frequency of recycling collections and collect food waste every week. What is crucial is that people understand that recycling does save councils a lot of money, which in turn saves the tax-payer a lot of money.
Birmingham Friends of the Earth have been calling for the amount of rubbish in black bags to be halved through food waste collections and better kerbside recycling.”
The online petition for this can be found here.
- Council pilot Nectar points recycling incentive
Homes in Erdington and Bourneville who receive a Friday blue-box paper recycling collection, are to receive Nectar points as a reward from September 2. The... - Talking half the rubbish
Birmingham Friends of the Earth have led an online e-petition asking Birmingham City Council to stop food waste going to incinerators with a seperate collection....
Related Posts
Did You Enjoy This Post?
Please consider giving us your vote
-
Delicious
-
Twitter
-
Digg
-
Stumble Upon
Council pilot Nectar points recycling incentive : Birmingham Recycled says:
[...] Read a statement by Birmingham Friends of the Earth on the scheme. Related PostsTalking half the rubbishBirmingham Friends of the Earth have led an online e-petition asking Birmingham City Council to stop food waste going to incinerators with a seperate collection…. [...]
Aug. 22 at 5:22 pmanne says:
This would probably work if you could actually get your card registered I’ve given up!!!!
Nov. 23 at 11:17 amonline shopping website says:
I beloved as much as you will receive carried out proper here. The caricature is tasteful, your authored material stylish. nonetheless, you command get bought an edginess over that you wish be delivering the following. in poor health unquestionably come further beforehand again since exactly the same just about very frequently inside of case you shield this hike.
Mar. 16 at 3:59 am