Finding out about bubble and squeak during Wokingham Recycling Week
Recycling hints and tips will no longer be under wraps as a bonanza of environment and, not to mention, money saving ideas come to the Wokingham Borough as part of national Recycling Week 2008.
Wokingham Children, shoppers, businesses and even the Women’s Institute will be getting involved in the week-long promotion, to see how they can do small things to make a big difference to the environment.
Recycling Week is run every year through WRAP (Waste and Resource Action Programme) and this year it will be focusing on what small extra things can be done to recycle more and increase the impact of recycling.
On Monday (June 2) children from The Hawthorns Infant and Junior Schools in Woosehill were invited to get thinking about how to go green when Wokingham Borough Council’s waste and recycling manager Peter Baveystock made a special visit to the school. During Peter’s presentation the children were able to ask questions and come up with ways that they could all do something to help the environment, however small.
Serving up bubble and squeak for dinner and going shopping on a full stomach were just some of the ideas shoppers were able to take advantage of at a roadshow, that aimed not only to help recycling rates sore but could also help people save some cash too!
Representatives from the re3 waste minimisation partnership - a 25-year joint project between Bracknell Forest, Reading and Wokingham Borough Councils and Waste Recycling Group (WRG) – offered tips at Asda in Lower Earley on how small changes can make a huge amount of difference to recycling.
Members of the Riseley and Swallowfield Women’s Institute were given ideas by Peter Baveystock on how they too could be more environmentally friendly by recycling and composting on Tuesday when he was a guest speaker at their monthly meeting.
And on Thursday it will be time for big business to do their bit as staff from Oracle have invited the council’s waste and recycling team to help them understand what other little things they could do help out as they mark World Environment Day.
The Wokingham Borough already has a recycle rate of more than 37 per cent of their household waste, with more than 5,000 tonnes of green waste collected for recycling through kerbside collections.
Cllr Simon Weeks, executive member for environment, said: “The aim of Recycle Week is to get people thinking more about what they can do to help out – we all have our part to play in recycling and reducing waste.
“There have been many helpful tips available to residents, shoppers, business and even children throughout the week, from simply putting used paper into the recycling bin instead of the rubbish to making bubble and squeak out of leftover food!”
Wokingham Children, shoppers, businesses and even the Women’s Institute will be getting involved in the week-long promotion, to see how they can do small things to make a big difference to the environment.
Recycling Week is run every year through WRAP (Waste and Resource Action Programme) and this year it will be focusing on what small extra things can be done to recycle more and increase the impact of recycling.
On Monday (June 2) children from The Hawthorns Infant and Junior Schools in Woosehill were invited to get thinking about how to go green when Wokingham Borough Council’s waste and recycling manager Peter Baveystock made a special visit to the school. During Peter’s presentation the children were able to ask questions and come up with ways that they could all do something to help the environment, however small.
Serving up bubble and squeak for dinner and going shopping on a full stomach were just some of the ideas shoppers were able to take advantage of at a roadshow, that aimed not only to help recycling rates sore but could also help people save some cash too!
Representatives from the re3 waste minimisation partnership - a 25-year joint project between Bracknell Forest, Reading and Wokingham Borough Councils and Waste Recycling Group (WRG) – offered tips at Asda in Lower Earley on how small changes can make a huge amount of difference to recycling.
Members of the Riseley and Swallowfield Women’s Institute were given ideas by Peter Baveystock on how they too could be more environmentally friendly by recycling and composting on Tuesday when he was a guest speaker at their monthly meeting.
And on Thursday it will be time for big business to do their bit as staff from Oracle have invited the council’s waste and recycling team to help them understand what other little things they could do help out as they mark World Environment Day.
The Wokingham Borough already has a recycle rate of more than 37 per cent of their household waste, with more than 5,000 tonnes of green waste collected for recycling through kerbside collections.
Cllr Simon Weeks, executive member for environment, said: “The aim of Recycle Week is to get people thinking more about what they can do to help out – we all have our part to play in recycling and reducing waste.
“There have been many helpful tips available to residents, shoppers, business and even children throughout the week, from simply putting used paper into the recycling bin instead of the rubbish to making bubble and squeak out of leftover food!”
Wokingham Borough Council
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