Project Freesheet-ridding the streets of free newspapers

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Permalink Reply by Alan Stanton on January 29, 2009 at 21:35

Thanks for this link, Liz. Here's another link from Alenka a Russian-born resident of Amsterdam. She describes (on the Project Freesheet Flickr site you give) what's happening in Amsterdam.
Is there anyone with any Amsterdam or other Dutch contacts who may be willing to post more information on this?

For me it all reinforces the idea that there are thousands of good ideas 'out there' for tackling litter and dumping, increasing recycling, and persuading people to change their behaviour. (Alenka says the Amsterdam schemes give people electronic credits.) We need to plug into this; pick-n-mix; and experiment for what works best in London and Haringey. (And Harringay, of course!)

Liz, would you have time to send Alenka a Flickrmail?

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Permalink Reply by Clive Carter on January 30, 2009 at 0:00

INTERESTING. The worst offender locally is of course the unsolicited and largely unwanted Haringey People publication from the council. Does anyone else get multiple copies force-fed through their letterbox?

HP typically does not end up in the street, but goes unread, unused and quickly ends up as landfill or recycling. Does the useful information in Haringey Pravda People comprise as much as 10% of it?

At least the free newspapers are not full of tenditious quasi-political propaganda. Although we pay for their sweeping up, we do not pay for the paper itself, it being paid for by advertising (NB. I hold no brief for these free-sheets, just comparing it with another unpaid-for freeshit).

I am given to understand that advertising in Haringey Pravda is particularly expensive – and I have that from an arm of the council that had better remain nameless. Members of the "Cabinet" "Executive" of course are not charged for their publicity photos (again and again), which is free to them, but costs all rate-payers.

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