Tag: recycling
Any questions? Join our Waste Strategy webcast
Citizens, businesses, community groups and anyone else with an interest in how waste is managed in Birmingham can have their say during a special webcast on Tuesday (July 5). The session is part of the consultation over the aims and principles that will underpin the city’s waste strategy for the next 20 years. A panel […]
Have your say on city Waste Strategy
The overarching aims and principles for how Birmingham should manage its waste over the next 20 years have been published in a new document, out to public consultation from today (June 29). A Waste Strategy for Birmingham sets out the city council’s vision and ambition for new ways of managing resources to deliver against an […]
Partnerships key to Cleaner Greener Streets
Jacqui Kennedy, Acting Strategic Director for Place at Birmingham City Council, talks about the importance of partnership working to keep the city looking as good as possible… Hopefully over the last few months you’ve seen some of our promotional activity to showcase the excellent work being done in partnership with communities, by businesses, other organisations […]
Future Waste Strategy - consultation clarification
Media reports today are suggesting citizens could be asked to consider the concept of fortnightly waste collections when consultation on the city’s Future Waste Strategy starts next month. The city council would like to clarify its position as follows: - The grant awarded to the council in 2012 by the Government that helped introduce wheelie […]
“View the queue” at Household Recycling Centres
Any Birmingham citizens thinking of making a trip to one of the city’s five Household Recycling Centres can now “view the queue” through webcams that have been set up to monitor the entrances to each site
Update on Cleaner Greener Streets - March 2016
An infographic outlining various facts and figures relating to Birmingham City Council’s waste management service has been published. It outlines that in the forthcoming financial year (2016/17), the council needs to save approximately £6.7million from its waste management budget as a result of central government funding cuts - meaning the council has to make decisions […]
Time to reduce our packaging excesses
Jacqui Kennedy, Acting Strategic Director for Place at Birmingham City Council, blogs about what is being done to reduce the amount of waste created by excess packaging on products we buy on a day-to-day basis
R2JUNK2: Recycling star wars against waste
The artistic force has been with a resourceful Birmingham citizen – who has used other people’s unwanted items to help build a replica of one of the world’s most famous droids
Sign up for discounted 2016 garden waste service
Green-fingered citizens are being reminded it is still not too late to sign up for Birmingham’s garden waste recycling service – and earn a £2 discount in the process
Response to waste strategy petition
A petition from Friends of the Earth is to be submitted to Birmingham City Council as part of the council’s development of a Future Waste Strategy