Recycling

Letter from Green Party ward Cllr Kaltum Rivers on the additional problems and mess created by the council failing to roll out the new recycling bins before students arrived back

One year ago David Attenborough’s Blue Planet 2 started a mass movement to end the single-use plastics that contaminate our oceans and even our drinking water.

Labour’s Cllr Peter Price continues to broadcast irresponsible incineration industry claims that burning waste helps to reduce our impact on the environment and is “sustainable”

It was ‘pat yourselves on the back’ time for the Labour-run council at the September 5th council meeting with their motion to coincide with the brown bin roll out.

Residents will know that new recycling bins are currently being rolled out in Sheffield this autumn. We are getting more bins but fewer collections, and no overall change to what can and can’t be recycled

The latest news from Nether Edge & Sharrow Greens

Here is what happened at September’s full council meeting, the one day in the month when all Sheffield’s elected councillors get together.

We await the roll-out of Sheffield’s “improved” recycling service. We will have 3 big bins per household, further cluttering up our streets.

These answers were given to our questions, on the Streets Ahead contract, fire safety and recycling, at the council meeting…

We await the truth behind the GMB leaked e-mail suggesting Veolia have been burning waste due to be recycled since…