Burn or Recycle?
In 2016 Birmingham City Council undertook a review of future processing of domestic waste. This was prompted by decisions on what to do about incineration. The City’s 25-year contract for the Tyseley incinerator, operated by Veolia, is due to end in 2019. The official...
Don’t Lose Your Bottle campaign update
For those of you who don’t know of this campaign, we are calling for a national Deposit Return Scheme on plastic bottles. The campaign is going well and starting to really take shape now. Over recent months our focus has been on building support from Councillors....
Zero Waste Shops
Zero waste retail outlets are in fact nothing new. However, you'd have to go back a very long time to find them on our high streets. Under the radar, they are making a concerted effort to become a force to be reckoned with as one seems to be opening or due to open all...
Waste Isn’t Rubbish
2017 was dominated by the rubbish strike. Bin bags piling up in the streets, rats returning and your recycling going into the incinerator. The resolution of the dispute was the staff to keep their jobs and have a new responsibility to help householders to recycle...
Our campaign for a National Deposit Return Scheme on plastic bottles
For anyone who doesn’t recognise the campaign name, ‘Don’t Lose your Bottle’ it has been changed to distinguish it from a similar campaign by Campaign For Rural England but the aim of our campaign is similar. The change of name was discussed and voted for in one of...
The way forward for Birmingham’s waste
Following on from the release of Birmingham City Council's report outlining what their Procurement plan and Future Waste Strategy will cover, we have produced a detailed report for the council on how the collection system can change, to recover more recyclable waste....