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Don't have a rubbish Christmas
GIVE your bin a break at Christmas, recycle!
With the Christmas season approaching Warrington Borough Council is urging people to stop and think about the amount of waste they're throwing out at this time of year and recycle more.
Last year, about 3 million tonnes of rubbish was generated between Christmas and New Year in the UK, with as much as 83 sq km of wrapping paper and 30% more glass bottles, aluminum and steel drink cans than usual getting dumped in bins.
To stop people's homes getting cluttered with rubbish the Council has joined forces with its recycling partner, UPM Shotton, to put together some top tips for recycling.
Cllr Terry O'Neill, Executive Board Member for Environment and Regeneration, said:- "On average, a third more rubbish is created over the Christmas period than at any other time of year and so much of this waste can be reused and recycled, so we're appealing to residents to follow our easy tips and get recycling.
Reducing the amount of waste going into landfill is one of the Council's top priorities and we want to encourage as many people as possible to recycle at Christmas and throughout the year."
Top tips for recycling at Christmas:-
* Put those extra Christmas catalogues, flyers and brochures out with your recycled paper for kerbside collection.
* After Christmas, remember not to throw cards away, they can be recycled, you can take then to your local WH Smith or Tesco who are working with the Woodland Trust to save them. About 45 million cards were recycled in 2003, the equivalent of 15,000 trees - and almost a tonne of cards were recycled in Warrington last year. Alternatively, you could save them to use as gift tags for presents next year.
* Instead of spending money on wrapping paper, which many places won't recycle, why not try wrapping gifts in brown paper or newspaper instead. Alternatively, try recycled gift bags that can be used again and again.
* As you prepare for your parties, set up recycling bags in your kitchen to collect paper, cans, bottles and other goods. They can be taken to recycling banks.
* When buying all your party and Christmas foods re-use shopping bags or use a 'bag for life'. Each person uses about 130 carrier bags a year and these take 500 years to degrade in landfill. Doorstep delivery services from supermarkets are widespread and also cut down on the unnecessary use of carrier bags.
* Buy loose fruit and vegetables rather than packaged ones for all those family meals and parties.
* If you're having a party, rent or borrow items you don't use very often. Most supermarkets and off licences rent out glasses for parties, saving on disposable cups.
Warrington currently recycles 13% of household waste and the Council is working towards increasing this figure by introducing new schemes and expanding existing ones.
Issued by Joanna Driscoll, Communications Officer, (01925) 442081 on 14 December 2004.
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Liverpool nativity is child's play
MORE than 500 Liverpool schoolchildren from Sudley Junior School, All Saints' Primary, Blessed Sacrament Junior School, St Anne's Primary School, St Finbar's Primary School, St Margaret's Church of England Primary School, St Nicholas Primary School and Music from the Archbishop Beck wind band showed off their Christmas creativity this week by performing a stunning new version of the nativity.
Pupils from seven primary schools and one high school will told the story of Christmas through music, mime and words.
An audience of over 1,300 people watch 'The School Inspector's Christmas' at the Metropolitan Cathedral on Thursday 16 December.
The new script and music was written by Richard Woolford, performing arts officer of Liverpool City Council's education service, and combines the bible story with a modern twist to appeal to infant and primary schoolchildren.
Richard Woolford said:-
"We are retelling the Christmas nativity in a way that retains the traditional bible story and appeals directly to pupils at Key Stage 2.
The people of Liverpool possess a unique creative talent and the youngsters of the city are extraordinarily creative.
I get to see at first hand their musical and dramatic skills and can honestly say that the quality and quantity of talented young people is not matched anywhere in the country."
Pupils at Sudley Junior School and All Saints' Catholic Primary School were taught the songs during the autumn term, with the music recorded onto CD and sent to the other six schools involved.
The story will be mimed by pupils at All Saints' Infants, the drama acted out by All Saints' Juniors, with music provided by the Archbishop Beck wind band. All of the children will join in singing songs.
Councillor Paul Clein, Liverpool City Council's executive member for education, said:- "This is a wonderful showcase for the creativity of our young people.
It will be a great night at the Metropolitan Cathedral and will leave everyone full of festive spirit."
LETTER TO THE EDITOR:-
Isn't it time Lord St. was given an overarching glass roof?
"I suggested to Lord Richard Rogers that National Lottery funds be used for this purpose. I had a polite reply that my letter had been received, but no more than that.
My notion of Southport as Britain's first weatherproofed resort is founded on my belief that big cities,
constantly being enhanced by superb architectural projects, think Manchester's War Museum, or Newcastle's Sage music centre,
such initiatives are leaving coastal resort towns in the lurch. Southport, my birthplace, has even lost its identity having been subsumed into the meaningless Sefton complex.
A far greater effort is needed in future to compete even with formerly sad Birmingham that now can boast of a brilliantly revived canal system and a wonderful concert hall.
Lord Street badly needs to attract the kind of classy Italian and French clothing outlets one can see in lively Verona. On my visit to Southport a few years back the shops looked as though nothing had happened to them since my childhood there in the 1930's.
The glass overarching of Lord Street should not be totally enclosing, it should have a retractable roof, technically possible, think of the stadium at Cardiff. Think also of the magnificent area that would be released for popular events. Think, too, of the greater chance of attracting seminars, conferences, at all." Denson.
Interesting letter. What do our other readers think?
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