Charity blow on recycling; APPEAL: Can collectors hit by new bins scheme.Byline: Mary Griffin A COVENTRY charity is being hit hard by the city's new recycling recycling, the process of recovering and reusing waste products—from household use, manufacturing, agriculture, and business—and thereby reducing their burden on the environment. scheme. Coventry Recycling of Waste (CROW Crow, indigenous people of North America Crow, indigenous people of North America whose language belongs to the Siouan branch of the Hokan-Siouan linguistic stock (see Native American languages) and who call themselves the Absaroka, or bird people. ) is staffed by up to 20 volunteers, including people with physical and learning disabilities. The charity, based in Sparkbrook Street, Hillfields, relies on aluminium cans from can banks at public recycling points and in supermarket car parks. But they fear their income will dry up as people bypass the can banks and use their new blue-lidded bins instead. Manager Barbara Cowling said: "People should know that putting cans in the can banks benefits disabled people from this city. "But now the can banks are filling up less frequently so there are going to be fewer cans coming through for us to process. "It will hit us financially." CROW introduced can recycling to Coventry in 1985, involving people leaving special schools who often face limited mainstream employment opportunities. Cans are the charity's highest earning resource and CROW sorts through a quarter of a million cans every year. They also shred the council's confidential papers and bail newspapers, magazines and printer paper from offices, schools and colleges across Warwickshire. Mrs Cowling said: "Cans are our best earner. The price of paper is nothing compared to the value of an aluminium can. "If people are driving to the supermarket anyway to do their shopping, we would ask, please put your cans in the banks because they will come to us and support our work." Cabinet member for city services The examples and perspective in this article or section may represent an unduly geographically limited view of the subject. Please [ improve this article] or discuss the issue on the talk page. Coun Hazel hazel, any plant of the genus Corylus of the family Betulaceae (birch family), shrubs or small trees with foliage similar to the related alders. They are often cultivated for ornament and for the edible nuts. Noonan (Con, Cheylesmore) said the council pays pounds 7,000-a-year to support CROW's work. She added: "For many years we've supported them in the best way we can by putting containers on 120 sites and collecting those containers on our vehicles and taking them to CROW's premises. "We'll continue to do that, but of course we're aware that people will be using the bin on their doorstep. If people are willing to take their cans to the can banks that's up to them. The important thing is that they are being recycled." CAPTION(S): CHARITY...Barbara Cowling, CROW manager, Ben Mochrie, CROW warehouse manager and (back) Patrick McCarroll, Ian Beebe, Scott Trippass, Andrew Farrington, Andy Brown Andy Brown may refer to:
|
|
||||||||||||||
Printer friendly
Cite/link
Email
Feedback
Reader Opinion