Be keen and green for Climate Week, suggests councillor
ECO-FRIENDLY residents are being urged to run events to promote "green living".
This week is national Climate Week and Derby City Council is encouraging everyone to take part – by running an event to share a message about climate change.
The authority has also asked schools, businesses and community groups to all get involved.
Councillor Hardyal Dhindsa, cabinet member for planning, environment and public protection, said: "Climate Week is the chance for the city to work together for the single purpose of protecting the environment and we encourage everyone to take part.
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"The council is passionate about tackling climate change and want to share this message with the residents and businesses of Derby.
"We have invested in Derby's hydro-electric plant, which generates 1.3 million kilowatt hours of electricity per year, supplying enough green energy for more than 300 average households.
"We want to reduce our carbon footprint, while also actively encouraging others to follow."
Events can be registered at www.climateweek.com.
Comments
by DerbyFoE
Thursday, March 07 2013, 4:59PM
“So the City Council claims to be passionate about tackiling climate change and its carbon footprint. In that case, why are they planning to add to the 172,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide to be produced YEARLY from the planned Derby incinerator, by forcing people to throw foodwaste into the blackbin, for incineration, instead of such foodwaste being more sustainably composted through the brownbin?
Could it be because of the waste contract calling for 13,000 tonnes of 'organic' and 'calorific' waste of a certain 'moisture' content to be 'procured' by the councils.
The Resource Recovery Solutions incinerator company officer who was given the job of overseeing recycling in the city, has contributed very well to the city's drop in recycling of 2%. His friends at Shanks must be very pleased to see this drop. They need us to throw more into the blackbin, which they need to burn. The City Council's recycling officers previously did a sterling job in getting this city to almost 50% recycling in less than ten years and then in just one year all that work has been undone. That is not 'protecting the environment' and is unsustainable,. as well as a breach of UK Waste Regulations 2011 and the waste Hierarchy.
FIGHT CLIMATE CHANGE - USE THE BROWN BIN or compost. Better still take food close to its sell-by date to the foodbanks (a new foodbank is set up every 3 days in the UK) spread across the city. Oddly , lists of Derby foodbanks have been removed from the City Council's website. Why?
There are actually plans to grow full wheat for incineration (Whitwell, Derbyshire) instead of food, despite the need being proved.
Derby and South Derbyshire Friends of the Earth”