Tuesday 26 January 2010

RECYCLING WORKING GROUP

any questions or suggestions you would like me to bring up just, e-mail to me at e.bauer@guild.bham.ac.uk

11:00am Wednesday 27th January 2010, S252 Metallurgy & Materials Building

AGENDA

1. Apologies

2. Update on Current Initiatives
(i) Binless Office Scheme
(ii) Rocket Composter
(iii) Grounds & gardens initiatives
(iv) Guild initiatives
(v) New battery recycling scheme

3. Waste and Recycling Figures

4. Awareness, including website

5. Waste and cardboard tender

6. Any Other Business

7. Date of Next Meeting
Posted by Edward Bauer at 03:32

2 comments:

  1. Anonymous26 January 2010 at 12:54

    Hi.

    If you could involve something about raising awareness about the recycling in Selly Oak. It took the council weeks to reply to my message asking when the SO recycling dates were and the Guild's community wardens still haven't answered my messages. Because I live down an alleyway just off Dawlish our boxes keep being taken so we have to use the green garden waste bags for our recycling, which so far has been fine, but worrying incase they decide not to collect future bags.

    Cheers

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  2. Edward Bauer27 January 2010 at 11:22

    Yeah the green garden bags are good, they are see through and they can see what it is, a lot of people do that I wouldn’t worry about them not being taken away.

    The WRRG (waste management and recycling) is responsible for on campus and halls only see this for the areas they deal with http://www.environment.bham.ac.uk/waste.shtml

    Awareness in this meeting was discussing how to make people 1. Use the bins on campus and 2. Use them correctly

    Housing and accommodation services put out some information which can be found here..

    http://www.has.bham.ac.uk/studentaccom/housingservices/community/recycing.shtml

    But it is largely the job of the community wardens and council.

    The community wardens are great in my experience; I have messaged them to find out what happened to your messages, which e-mail where you send it too? Hopefully it is a defunct one that is still being advertised.

    However that being said, I think there is an opportunity for some crossover between the campuses recycling efforts.

    The WRRG manage a help and advise section http://www.environment.bham.ac.uk/contact.shtml

    And they operate environmental co-ordinators for each department
    http://www.environment.bham.ac.uk/additional/EnvCoords.shtml

    I have just messaged them to ask if there is any chance the community warden recycling information materials could be disseminated by this departmental network.

    If you have any ideas for promoting recycling I would love to her them, bare in mind that there is not really and money around for this 

    Also you may be interested that there is going to be a sustainable living fair on campus on the 19th of march, with information about recycling, free bike workshops, do it yourself recycling workshops (wallets out of tetra packs), plants, vegetarian food and free bike fixing. Maybe you would be interested in coming along.

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