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Report festive
fly-tipping, says CLA in the North
THE CLA is encouraging
farmers and landowners in the North to report waste dumped illegally
in gateways, fields and hedgerows over the Christmas season so local
Police forces can measure the scale of the problem. The
Association said fly-tipping in rural areas increases over any
holiday period, especially Christmas when households generate more
waste than usual and the days are shorter and darker. CLA North
Regional Director Dorothy Fairburn said:- "Waste dumped
illegally can contaminate land and rivers and threaten livestock and
wildlife. If caught, fly-tippers could receive a custodial sentence
and be fined up to £50,000. In reality, it is the private landowner
who is left to settle a large clean-up bill and face prosecution.
The CLA is lobbying government to create a new ticketing scheme that
would enable landowners to take fly-tipped rubbish to their local
tip free of charge. A successful pilot scheme along these lines is
currently up and running in Suffolk, proving this is a viable
solution."
Wishing you a very & greener New
Year THE CLA's
action plan to tackle environmental crime calls for the Government
to ensure local authorities can accept fly-tipped waste without
charge to landowners; an end to the prosecution of landowners who
have waste dumped on their land and have to pay to remove it, and
the creation of the right policy framework for local authorities to
work with Police forces on a zero-tolerance approach to the
perpetrators. PALM Recycling, who are Sefton Councils recycling
specialist, responsible for the weekly household collections of
recyclable materials, would like to remind residents that as
Christmas is traditionally the season for giving, why not give a
little back to the planet by remembering to recycle throughout the
festive season?
The weekly kerbside recycling collections will continue throughout
the Festive Seasion and New Year holiday period. As a reminder, the
following explains which waste materials can be recycled by Palm
Recycling, and which container or bag they should be placed in:-
► The blue bag can be used to recycle
paper, such as newspapers, Christmas Gift catalogues, TV guides and
other paper-based items.
► The food waste collection service using
the kitchen food waste caddy and the kerbside food waste bin, can be
used to dispose of all food leftovers from the Christmas dinner,
from sprouts to turkey bones and potato peelings.
► The green box can be used to recycle
glass and aluminium waste, such as empty mince meat and pickled
onion jars, beer and wine bottles, foil cases from shop-bought mince
pies and confectionery tins.
► The weekly textiles recycling collection
service, using the pink bag, can be used for clothing, paired shoes,
accessories, household linen and curtains.
Cllr Trish Hardy, Cabinet Member Environmental, Sefton Council,
said:- "Having a weekly kerbside recycling service provided by
Palm Recycling gives Sefton's residents a convenient way to recycle
and helps save the planet. Choosing to wrap Christmas presents in
non-metallic wrapping paper means that it can go into the blue bag
for paper recycling."
Ruairi Holyoake, North West Operations Manager for Palm Recycling,
added:- "For greater convenience, the weekly kerbside
recycling service will continue throughout the festive season. Using
this service all year round makes it easy to recycle more things,
more often." For any enquiries on the weekly recycling
service or to request any missing containers or bags, including the
food waste caddy, contact Sefton Council on:- 0845 140 0845. |
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More than 23,000
homes and businesses to benefit from BT's £2.5 billion roll-out on
Merseyside
HIGH speed fibre broadband
is now available to the first homes and businesses in three more
Merseyside communities, BT has announced.
More than 6,700 households and firms in Mountwood, on the Wirral,
are joining the high-speed revolution as engineers complete the work
in the coming weeks. Mountwood follows Churchtown (more than 7,200
premises) in Southport and Great Crosby (9,100), where fibre is also
being rolled out as a result of BT's £2.5 billion fibre investment
programme.
BT is set to announce further UK locations in the coming months that
will benefit from its commercial roll out of fibre broadband. The
company is also seeking to work in partnership with the public
sector to reach parts of the region that lie outside its commercial
footprint.
Mike Blackburn, BT's regional director for the North West, said:-
"BT's fibre network is expanding rapidly across the region
bringing a boost for local economies wherever it goes. Research
suggests that within 15 years fibre broadband could bolster the
economy of a typical town by £143 million and create 225 new jobs,
140 new start-up businesses and 1,000 more homeworkers. As more than
a million households and businesses have already discovered, fibre
broadband opens up a whole new world to internet users. Whatever
you're doing online, you can do it better and faster with fibre.
It's great for education, shopping, entertainment, the social
networking we now carry out routinely online and it also offers huge
benefits for businesses and public services.The arrival of fibre in
these communities can really help local firms in these economically
challenging times, opening up new ways of working and speeding up
vital operations, such as file and data transfers, conferencing and
computer back-up, all of which may also help cut costs."
BT's fibre footprint currently passes more than 12 million UK homes
and businesses. It is expanding all the time and is now due to pass
two thirds of UK premises; around 19 million premises; during Spring
2014, at least 18 months ahead of the original timetable.
Mike Blackburn added:- "Our ambition doesn't stop with our
commercial roll-out. We're keen to work with the public sector to
extend fibre broadband to the remaining parts of the country that
are harder to reach, and in many places that's already happening.
Reaching ⅔ of the country early will mean
we're well positioned to place an even greater focus on the
challenge of the final third."
Openreach, BT's local network business, is primarily deploying
fibre-to-the-cabinet (FTTC) technology, where the fibre runs from
the exchange to a local roadside cabinet. FTTC offers download
speeds of up to 80Mbps and upload speeds of up to 20Mbps3 and could
deliver even faster speeds in the future.
From Spring 2013 Openreach aims to make fibre to the premises (FTTP)
technology, where the fibre runs all the way to the home or
business, commercially available on demand4 in any area where fibre
broadband has been deployed. FTTP-on-demand will offer the top
current download speed of 330Mbps3. According to the regulator Ofcom,
the current average UK broadband download speed is 12.7Mbps.
At home, fibre broadband enables a family to simultaneously download
a movie, watch a TV replay service, surf the internet and play games
online all at the same time. A whole album can be downloaded in less
than 30 seconds and a feature length HD movie in less than 10
minutes, whilst high-resolution photos can be uploaded to Facebook
in seconds.
Unlike other companies, Openreach offers fibre broadband access to
all service providers on an open, wholesale basis, underpinning a
competitive market.
For further information on
Openreach's fibre broadband programme visit:-
superfast-openreach.co.uk
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