ACTION ON WASTE
Today marks the start of a new Birmingham Friends of the Earth (BFOE) campaign to cut black bin bag waste.
I passionately support all efforts to reduce waste - starting by carefully considering what we really "need" to buy - but I had thought that Birmingham City Council's achievements in reducing landfill by producing "Energy from Waste" at Tyseley were good. I thought that the items that I put in my black bag had some use through producing useful energy. I'm sorry to realise that I was naive - read John Newson's article "Up in Smoke".
Please read about the campaign and take action at three levels.
1) Personal action: reduce food waste and dispose of your remaining food waste using a green cone or Bokashi;
2) Local action: contact your local councillor to ask for better recycling services;
3) National action: take part in the FoE campaign
Please spread the word about your successes in "Comments" on this page.
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