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Report to Area Panel re Environmental Improvements
TACKLING WASTE AND IMPROVING THE ENVIRONMENT
REPORT OF THE AREA CO-ORDINATOR, MAY 2006
Background
This report outlines a number of planned activities that the Area Panel has developed with partners to both improve the environment and try and encourage waste reduction, removal and re-cycling. All of the activities recorded below are able to happen due to Neighbourhood Renewal Fund allocations, which in some cases have brought in additional funds.
Burngreave in Bloom
Green City Action have helped submit a number of localities in the area for the Lord Mayor’s awards as part of the ‘Sheffield in Bloom’ campaign. These include:
Page Hall
Firshill community garden
Green City Action have also arranged a number of events around the area where staff (including the DIG team, Delivering it Green) and volunteers will help local residents construct their own hanging baskets, planters etc.
Abbeyfield Park Environment Day 21st May 12noon – 4pm
Page Hall 24th May 3pm – 7pm
Burngreave Bank 25th May
Verdon St/Brunswick Rd 1st June 1pm – 5pm
Burngreave Recreation Ground 3rd June 2pm – 5pm
Firshill/Roe Lane Community Centre 8th June lunchtime
Page Hall 10th June 10am – 2pm
The Area Panel sponsored street floral displays of planters, flower towers and hanging baskets (in partnership with Streetforce) will again be displayed on Ellesmere Green, and surrounding pavements and shops; top of Barnsley Rd; Page Hall; Firshill estate; and outside each nursery in the area.
Bring out your rubbish days
Marilyn King has liased with Streetforce to agree 22 Bring Out Your Rubbish days for every house in the whole Burngreave Panel area. This Area Panel is the only Panel that has made this level of investment in supporting households – particularly those without access to a car, or for people with limited mobility – to help remove waste.
The general timetable is (all bring outs are Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday)
1st week June Fir Vale neighbourhoods (Firth Park Rd/Barnsley Rd)
2nd week June Barnsley Rd, Firshill, Cookswood
1st week July Pye Bank, Rock St, Catherine St, Brunswick, Verdon
2nd week July Skinnerthorpe, Whiteways, Earl Marshall, Crabtree
1st week August Abbeyfield, Scott Rd, Osgathorpe etc
2nd week August Burngreave Rd, Earldom, Carwood
1st week September Ellesmere
2nd week September Wensley, Page Hall
Bring out your green waste
Burngreave households do not have access to a green bin collection. Some households already compost their green waste. The recent City Council/Onyx very cheap offer of compost bins was advertised in the Area Panel Messenger column, May 2006. Again, Marilyn has arranged with Veolia (ex-Onyx) and Green City Action to have a trial ‘bring out your garden waste’ day. This has been arranged for Saturday 10th June (morning). Green City Action are going to provide leaflet distribution and run two composting workshop sessions. Veolia are collecting green waste in selected streets between 8am and 12 noon on 10th June. There will be a strict definition of what constitutes green waste!
Waste reduction
There is a need to reduce the approximate one ton of waste that each household in Sheffield produces each year. In the longer term, it might not be possible to maintain the bring out your rubbish initiative. At present, all the rubbish is taken to landfill. The City Council Waste Management service, Veolia and local projects are keen to explore ways of waste reduction and re-cycling. It is proposed that at the public Area Panel meeting either this September or November, that the Panel host a discussion about the different ways citywide services and local community and voluntary organisations can assist with waste reduction and re-cycling.
Recommendations
That this Area Panel
(a) notes the information provided in this report
(b) agrees to invite partners from Waste Management, Streetforce, Veolia and local organisations to a future Area Panel meeting
Andy Shallice
18th May 2006
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