East Riding residents recycled and composted 55 per cent of their waste in May compared with 46 per cent in May of last year. The figures released by East Riding of Yorkshire Council show that the biggest increase is in the amount of waste collected from the brown bins. Much of this waste was due to the roll out of the collection of food waste and cardboard in the brown…
This weekend 40 young people aged 16 to 30 took part in the first event of their summer youth led volunteering project ‘Angels in Actio’n. They helped out at the Beverley Festival 2011 and fulfilled a number of tasks including helping The Green Team whose role it was to promote the new and excellent recycling facilities. They brought Eryc and Eryca bears to life and entertained the children on site…
It won’t have escaped your notice that Beverley Folk Festival starts today Friday. (June 17 – 19) But you may not know that if you travel to the event by train you can get 10% off festival tickets for next year. This money-saving offer forms part of an agreement with Northern Rail in support of the festival policy of promoting issues of sustainability and the environment. All you have to…
East Riding of Yorkshire Council is launching its latest kerbside collection which will allow residents to put glass, a wider range of plastics and Tetra Pak in their blue bins. In a phased roll out over the next six months, the council will deliver the new service to up to 150,000 households across the area. Councillor Symon Fraser, portfolio holder for environment, housing and planning, said: “The recycling of glass,…
East Riding residents recycled and composted a record 54 per cent of their household waste in April. This percentage is the highest monthly figure ever achieved in the East Riding and includes the first collections of food waste and cardboard in the brown bins in Holderness, Driffield and Bridlington. The total amount of waste collected last month from across the council’s 10 household waste recycling sites, the 140 bring sites…
On 5 May 2011 people in every village, town and city in the UK will have the chance to vote in the Local Government Elections. This is your chance to have your say about what you want from East Riding Council. Labour candidates are standing for election because we want to give people the choice to vote for a pro-public services, pro-education, pro-NHS, positive alternative to Coalition cuts. Labour agrees…
My name is Neil Bant. I’m thirty six, married with two children and have lived around Beverley for 19 years. I went to Beverley Grammar School, gained my degree locally and now work for Kingston Communications. I am standing to represent the St. Marys Ward where I live. Some candidates standing do not live in our ward. I believe that having a candidate who lives within the ward they represent…
The hunt is on to find the East Riding’s most green family or resident. This will be the fourth year running East Riding of Yorkshire Council has run the competition to find its eco ambassadors. Past winners have been the Osborne family of Driffield (2008), the Miller Smiths of Tunstall, Holderness (2009), and the Bradford family of Beverley (2010). John Skidmore, head of streetscene services, said: “Previous winners have set…
The amount of wood taken to the sites this winter, compared with the same two months of last winter, was down by 43 tonnes, or five per cent, and glass was down by 17 tonnes. Plastic and tins were both down by four tonnes this winter compared with last winter and cardboard was down by eight tonnes. John Skidmore, head of streetscene services, said: “This is further evidence that residents…
A collection of fashions by East Riding students goes on display at the Treasure House, Beverley from 15 February. The outfits have been made from pre-worn clothing, including from charity shops, to show how to give garments a new lease of life. The fashions will be entries submitted by students at East Riding College and Bishop Burton College as part of the council’s competition to highlight the 3,000 tonnes of…
East Riding of Yorkshire Council is holding six special collections of cardboard across the area after Christmas. Councillor Symon Fraser, portfolio holder for environment and planning, said: “At Christmas, we all end up with an abundance of cardboard because of the packaging on everything from food to toys. “Lots of it gets taken to our 10 household waste recycling sites over Christmas so, this time, we are taking the collections…
POLICE are appealing for witnesses following an alleged robbery in Tesco’s car park in Beverley. At 1421hrs on Thursday 28 October 2010 it is alleged as a 37-year-old man was leaving his parked white Vauxhall Caddy hire van (about 100 yards away from the recycling bottle bins) in the Tesco’s supermarket car park on Morton Lane in Beverley, his vehicle was approached. The suspect, described as being a white man,…
East Riding residents took less waste to the 10 household waste and recycling sites over the summer months compared with the same months last year. For East Riding of Yorkshire Council, Councillor Symon Fraser, portfolio holder for environment and planning, said: “This is excellent news because the cheapest waste to get rid of is the waste we don’t make. “It saves the council and our taxpayers the cost of dealing…
Results of a survey of the waste in the East Riding’s green bins show that residents are trying to reduce what they throw away. The survey, by East Riding of Yorkshire Council, is the latest in a series of nine through to 2012, monitoring what is put in the green bins and sent to landfill. While the amount of waste in the bins was down, nearly a third of it…
East Riding of Yorkshire Council is holding a series of roadshows to focus on the recycling of small electrical items. Councillor Symon Fraser, portfolio holder for the environment and planning, said: “We are concentrating on smaller electrical and electronic equipment, like toasters and toothbrushes, because it is the fastest growing waste stream. “The aim of the roadshows is to demonstrate how old, broken electrical items can be recycled while those…
Councillor Stephen Parnaby OBE, leader of the council, has today announced that the council aims to freeze council tax next year, so that people will, in 2011/12, pay no increase in the part of their bill which funds East Riding of Yorkshire Council services. Only unforeseen events, such as major flooding and other extreme weather conditions, or particularly extreme cuts in Government funding, could hinder these plans. Councillor Parnaby said:…
Two students from East Riding College have taken part in a competition to turn discarded clothing into high fashion. Zoe Oakes and Faye Theabould, who are both first year students on the National Certificate in Fashion and Clothing at the College’s Bridlington campus, designed and created dresses using pre-worn and charity shop garments as part of the contest organised by East Riding of Yorkshire Council. The competition aimed to highlight…
The Humber Colts slumped out of the Vice Presidents Cup as they were beaten 4 – 1 on the road by AFC Steel Recycling. Despite a bright start it showed that they were playing their first competitive match in 7 weeks. HU17.net Picture Gallery: Click on the thumbnail picture below to enlarge the image to full size HU17.net Picture Gallery: Click on the thumbnail picture below to enlarge the image…