Action to protect the envoronment
Nick Herbert on his visit to flood hit areas of Cumbria
Please note that the post below was published more than ten year ago on 21st November 2009 Nick Herbert MP, shadow cabinet member for the Environment, Food, and Rural Affairs, was in Cumbria this morning to see the areas affected by the flooding. He writes on Conservative Home about his visit. Here is an extract. I’ve been in Cumbria today to see the areas affected by the floods. I arrived early in Keswick where I met officials from the Environment Agency. Although the river levels had fallen considerably and homes were no longer flooded, the damage to homes had been done. And the water which had got into houses wasn’t just from the river – it was foul water which had risen from the drains. I talked to fire crews who were pumping flood water back into the river, and discovered that they were from Tyne & Wear and Lancashire. They had been called in at an hours’ notice and had been working on the scene ever since, staying at a local hotel. You cannot fail to be impressed by the...
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I remember many years ago when the first supermarket to introduce the £1 deposit for a trolley was Presto (became Safeway and was located where argos is in whitehaven now) Anyway, The docks had an endless problem with trolleys until that happened. I also used to be in the Sea Cadets, and can tell you if i ever found a trolley i took it back, £1 - ta.
everyone wins. basically instead of letting the councils sell off recycling stuff, let the public deal with those sellers directly.
its hardly a new ground breaking idea. the only thing is that the payments stopped.
I think you have a point, Jim, that we ought to look again at some of the recycling ideas that worked successfully in the past.