Tyseley Incinerator Briefing Document for Birmingham City Councillors
The following briefing document was emailed to all Birmingham City Councillors. Briefing for Birmingham City Councillors 10th June 2020 From Birmingham Friends of the Earth Concerning the Tyseley Incinerator Our members live in all parts of Birmingham and we are...
Our position on developments with the incinerator
Birmingham Friends of the Earth is shocked to hear that a new contract to feed and to operate to 2034 the Council’s rubbish incinerator at Tyseley has been advertised, using ‘officers delegated authority’. This seems to us to ignore the Climate Emergency with its zero...
Recycling Food Waste – why not just do it ourselves?
By Federico Pettinella from Birmingham Eco Food waste recycling has a myriad of environmental benefits and can be done in various ways, from the household to the industrial scale. Anaerobic digestion (the breakdown of organic matter in the absense of oxygen) and...
All Saints Kings Heath Youth Group
Over the summer period at All Saints we did a series of weekly events around the theme of Climate Change. We started by creating EcoBricks; stuffing single use plastics into 2 litre bottles. We are going to use them to make stools and furniture for use in the youth...
My first experience going zero-waste shopping
Have you heard of zero-waste supermarkets? A growing number of these establishments are providing practical solutions to the problem of packaging waste. Supermarket food packaging is largely unrecyclable, meaning the majority of it ends up in landfills or...
Plastics campaign Spring update
It has been a busy few months working on our plastics campaign. We have been campaigning for the Commonwealth Games, which are coming to Birmingham in 2022, to be plastic-free. At our annual campaign planning day in early March, the group voted to continue with this...
