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Christmas garlands designed and
created by local school children from garden cuttings will be used
to decorate Peterborough Town Hall during the festive period. The
garlands, which have been made from materials that would normally be
consigned to the compost bin, have been entered into a competition
to be judged on Thursday 7 December.
While the judging takes place at the
Town Hall, the pupils will be entertained by ‘Doctor Who’, in an
educational play called ‘A Christmas Past and Present’. The ‘time
lord’ will be comparing Christmas in 1935 to the present day. The
winners will be presented with awards by Trevor Gibson, Peterborough
City Council’s director of environment and community services.
“The competition has been running
now for several years and each year the children’s imaginations and
creativity gets better and better,” said Kirsty Martin, education
and campaigns officer for Peterborough City Council. “These entries
demonstrate how we can re-use the materials that we usually throw
away.
“Children will not only get the
chance to be creative, but also have the opportunity to see how
Christmas was celebrated in 1935. This was an era when Christmas was
not all about lots of packaging and waste and the play provides a
worthwhile comparison to the present day.”
The city council’s brown bin
collection has increased the rate of recycling in Peterborough to 45
per cent. So far this financial year, 8,936 tonnes of material from
brown bins has been collected, compared to 6,798 tonnes last year.
The service has resulted in a dramatic reduction in the volume of
waste being buried in the city’s Dogsthorpe landfill site.
Kirsty said: “There are a range of
environmentally-friendly options to reuse, recycle and reduce the
consumption of natural resources during the festive season, reducing
the amount of waste being sent to landfill. Packaging materials can
be reused or even taken to playgroups and schools as play and art
materials. Vegetable peelings and garden waste can be composted at
home, and real Christmas trees can be cut up and placed in brown
bins along with organic garden waste.
“Meanwhile, Christmas cards,
wrapping paper, waste paper, TV guides, catalogues, cardboard,
plastic bottles, tin and aluminium cans, and aerosols can be
deposited in the green bins. People can even use Christmas cards as
gift tags for next year or take them to WH Smith or Tesco stores for
recycling, while glass bottles and jars can be deposited at local
bottle banks.”
Residents will also be able to
dispose of their Christmas waste and recyclables at eight additional
sites over the Christmas period. On Saturday 30 December, refuse
lorries will collect household waste and festive wrapping, card,
plastic bottles and other recyclable materials from the Copeland
Centre in Bretton, Peterborough between 8 am and 9.30 am.
The lorries will then visit the
Orton Centre car park in Orton Goldhay, Peterborough from 10 am to
11.30 am; Hampton Court in Ravensthorpe, Peterborough from 12 noon
to 1.30 pm; and the Pyramid Centre car park in North Bretton,
Peterborough from 2 pm to 3.30 pm.
Refuse lorries will also make
collections on Saturday 6 January 2007 from the car park in Lawson
Avenue, Stanground, Peterborough from 8 am to 9.30 am; Park Lane car
park in Eastfield, Peterborough from 10 am to 11.30 am; Christ
Church car park, Dogsthorpe, Peterborough from 12 noon to 1.30 pm
and the Rainbow Centre, Werrington, Peterborough from 2 pm to
3.30pm.
Householders are also reminded that
refuse and recycling dates over the festive period will change for
most households. Collections will continue on the normal weekly
schedule. However residents who would have had a service on Monday
25 December will instead have their bins collected two days earlier
on Saturday 23 December. The remaining collections during the
holiday period will be one day later than usual. Brown bin
collections will be suspended from Friday 15 December until Tuesday
6 February 2007.
December 2006
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