Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!
Are you a zero waste hero?
I'll be signing up...just in case I get a photo with Brian..I will get my face in Haringey People
From the council website:
Haringey Council has launched a search for residents brave enough to take part in a new challenge to see just how much they can reduce the amount of rubbish they throw away.
The council will be taking part in a north London Watch Your Waste Week from Monday 6 October, aimed at getting people to think more about the items they regularly place in their black bin bags.
Residents are now being invited to sign up to the Watch Your Waste challenge, in which they will try to minimise their rubbish during the week both by careful shopping and by reusing, recycling and composting materials.
Participants will measure the waste they produce on a normal week and compare it with the amount of rubbish they throw away during the challenge week.
Organisers hope this will raise awareness of the wide variety of items that can be recycled, as well as encourage people to think more about packaging when buying goods.
Everyone taking part will be given an information pack and will receive dedicated advice throughout the week from staff within Haringey Council's Environmental Resources Team.
If you want to take part, or for more information, call Adam Parvez on 020 8489 5691 or email environmental.resources@haringey.gov.uk.
Cabinet Member for Environment and Conservation, Cllr Brian Haley, said:
"We have increasingly become a nation of consumers, which means we are throwing an increasing amount of materials away. If we're genuinely serious about improving the environment and tackling climate change, we have to reverse that trend.
"One of the key priorities in our Greenest Borough Strategy is cutting the amount of rubbish sent to landfill from our borough. We'll be continuing to invest heavily in improving our recycling services, but we'll also need to encourage our residents to think more about the materials they buy, and our businesses to reduce the packaging they use.
"The Watch Your Waste Week is a great way of highlighting some of these issues. We're very pleased to support the initiative and I hope many residents will take up the challenge to reduce their waste."
Last year the average resident in Haringey produced more than a third of a tonne of rubbish, and figures show the amount of waste being produced across north London has been rising steadily at about two per cent per year for some time.
Among the actions you can take to reduce your waste are:
* Buy a reusable bag so that you don't need to keep picking up plastic bags when you go shopping
* Sign up to the Mailing Preference Service to cut down on unnecessary post
* Use a "no junk mail" sticker to keep your doormat clear of take-away menus
* Buy non-perishable food items in bulk, rather than individually wrapped, as this saves on packaging
* Take any leftovers to work in a Tupperware box so that you don't need to buy a pre-packaged sandwich at lunchtime
* Switch to reusable cloth nappies for your child.
* Unwanted clothes, books, CDs, DVDs and videos will always find a new home somewhere. Share them with friends and family or take them to a charity shop, rather than putting them in the bin
* Most important of all, before buying a new product, ask yourself if you really genuinely need it.
The Watch Your Waste Week is being run across the seven constituent boroughs of the North London Waste Authority - Haringey, Enfield, Barnet, Hackney, Camden, Islington and Waltham Forest.
From the council website:
Haringey Council has launched a search for residents brave enough to take part in a new challenge to see just how much they can reduce the amount of rubbish they throw away.
The council will be taking part in a north London Watch Your Waste Week from Monday 6 October, aimed at getting people to think more about the items they regularly place in their black bin bags.
Residents are now being invited to sign up to the Watch Your Waste challenge, in which they will try to minimise their rubbish during the week both by careful shopping and by reusing, recycling and composting materials.
Participants will measure the waste they produce on a normal week and compare it with the amount of rubbish they throw away during the challenge week.
Organisers hope this will raise awareness of the wide variety of items that can be recycled, as well as encourage people to think more about packaging when buying goods.
Everyone taking part will be given an information pack and will receive dedicated advice throughout the week from staff within Haringey Council's Environmental Resources Team.
If you want to take part, or for more information, call Adam Parvez on 020 8489 5691 or email environmental.resources@haringey.gov.uk.
Cabinet Member for Environment and Conservation, Cllr Brian Haley, said:
"We have increasingly become a nation of consumers, which means we are throwing an increasing amount of materials away. If we're genuinely serious about improving the environment and tackling climate change, we have to reverse that trend.
"One of the key priorities in our Greenest Borough Strategy is cutting the amount of rubbish sent to landfill from our borough. We'll be continuing to invest heavily in improving our recycling services, but we'll also need to encourage our residents to think more about the materials they buy, and our businesses to reduce the packaging they use.
"The Watch Your Waste Week is a great way of highlighting some of these issues. We're very pleased to support the initiative and I hope many residents will take up the challenge to reduce their waste."
Last year the average resident in Haringey produced more than a third of a tonne of rubbish, and figures show the amount of waste being produced across north London has been rising steadily at about two per cent per year for some time.
Among the actions you can take to reduce your waste are:
* Buy a reusable bag so that you don't need to keep picking up plastic bags when you go shopping
* Sign up to the Mailing Preference Service to cut down on unnecessary post
* Use a "no junk mail" sticker to keep your doormat clear of take-away menus
* Buy non-perishable food items in bulk, rather than individually wrapped, as this saves on packaging
* Take any leftovers to work in a Tupperware box so that you don't need to buy a pre-packaged sandwich at lunchtime
* Switch to reusable cloth nappies for your child.
* Unwanted clothes, books, CDs, DVDs and videos will always find a new home somewhere. Share them with friends and family or take them to a charity shop, rather than putting them in the bin
* Most important of all, before buying a new product, ask yourself if you really genuinely need it.
The Watch Your Waste Week is being run across the seven constituent boroughs of the North London Waste Authority - Haringey, Enfield, Barnet, Hackney, Camden, Islington and Waltham Forest.
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Permalink Reply by John McMullan on
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Most important of all, before buying a new product, ask yourself if you really genuinely need it. - I bet the CBI would have something to say about that.
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Permalink Reply by finsburypark on
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I was wondering about the same.... I guess this campaign could be a good excuse to say that the recession is not a true story but it's the effect of the zero waste campaign ;-)
However, I still don't believe we'll go into a recession anyway. Just yet another speculation.
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Permalink Reply by Liz on
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Come on people. I've signed up and have ticked the Publicity box. Lets get our collective Harringay faces in the Haringey People wearing HarringayOnline t shirts maybe?
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Permalink Reply by alistairj on
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Use a "no junk mail" sticker to keep your doormat clear of take-away menus
How does one get one of these? Do they work?
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Well, I may get a sticker in my special promised pack but a while back Birdy produced some door signs, attached, which would do the job. As to whether they work, I guess it depends on how well the people delivering read English, I did see a sign in Umfreville once in about 5 languages just to get the point across.
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Wouldn't "no junk mail" stickers and Birdy's POLITE NOTICE have outlawed our recent Traffic Petition flyers? I put mine through 140 letter boxes, returning next evening to chat about it and complete the petition process. Real zero waste heroes would have lynched me on the doorstep. None did.
Also, don't take-away-menu-deliverers etc get paid even if they drop their menu or 'H.Advertiser' in my green crate at the gate? Who's going to check on who put it there? Displacement activity, or cutting out the middleman?
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Birdy's sign is pretty specific about what mail is not acceptable, and I think the flyer would have qualified as something like a 'community notice'. He also says commercial surveys not residents petitions so I reckon you're safe enough.
Actually I don't stop people delivering things through my door as I use the flyers from time to time and I sort of 'read' the Advertiser despite its dullness. However I do get an awful lot of them and they sure fill up my recycling box.
How about alternative uses for the paper
http://thisrecycledlife.wordpress.com/2007/12/03/craft-idea-for-rec...
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Permalink Reply by Cat on
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I produce only about a carrier bag's worth of rubbish most weeks anyway, which seems to provoke the bin men into believing I am so fond of my rubbish I don't want them to take it away. They must think I put it in the wheelie bin for safekeeping.
When I was delivering the HoL leaflets, I construed the term "junk" rather narrowly and decided they weren't within the definition. And rationalised that most people wouldn't categorise information about an issue that affected them as residents as junk. And that if they didn't care about that issue they probably wouldn't care so very much about a single piece of paper either. And bestowed a leaflet on them anyway.
But I did draw the line at wheelchair adapted properties displaying no junk mail signs - it must be a real pain to have to keep picking up no end of unasked-for leaflets off the floor if you're in one of those.
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More on this. There is still time to sign up and there are 'perks'
"All challenge participants will be eligible to attend a recycled fashion show at The Roundhouse in Camden on the 2nd of October. Adam Parvez is also looking for a couple of volunteers who would like to represent Haringey on the catwalk. So if you fancy getting your hair (and make-up) done and showing off some intelligent design from the ‘leave me be’ or ‘vintage for sale’ collections let him know ASAP.
It promises to be a fun and enlightening event with stalls from freecycle, ReStore (furniture reuse project), as well as composting and other waste reduction information. As well as refreshments there will also be mountains of advice to hand to help you with your challenge. Adam Parvez will also be attending and so can field any specific questions you may have as you snack!
As a final incentive, upon completion of the record sheet in the soon-to-be-mailed challenger pack, a random selection of participants will receive a £10 voucher as a thank you."
Contact: adam.parvez@haringey.gov.uk or call the number above
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For three whole months I've pored over HP in search of that Friendly Green Giant, but all in vain. Now at last Brian reappears in the guise of a doorstepping Santa Claus bearing gifts.
But who is this on the page opposite, parading her scavenging kids? Nice jolly picture. Alas, Liz, you didn't get your photo opp. with Brian. Congratulations on the big effort, and to Ms Annelise and Master Joseph equally. Nice to see real Harringay People with names and identities - not just the usual anonymous crowd as backdrop to some Cabinet member or other.
And I notice Lorna Reith has chosen to start her new Neighbourhood pages with Harringay & St Anns. Somebody must be listening occasionally.
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Yes, apart from the disappointment that my two references to HOL were edited out of my diary in the magazine, I awaited in vain a knock on the door from Brian, who appears to be having a photo op with Matthew Kelly of tv's Stars in their Eyes fame.
Thank you for your kind words and now that I have achieved my ambition to be in the Haringey People, I know that I can spend the rest of my life contented, having achieved my 15 mins. We really did cut back on our waste so much that I can now find space in my bin for other people's bags of crap in my wheelie. Is there nothing I won't do to help our leader, Brian, in his fight against sh*te?
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