Inching Forward with Recycling

I met yesterday with Alan Stephens and Eleri Thomas, who are head of House Services and Residential Services respectively, about recycling and broader environmental issues.

The upshot is that by the beginning of the next academic year, there
- will be plastic bottles/glass/tin can recycling facilities ('receptacles' seems to be the fashionable word) at ALL locations near residences where there are currently big green bins to put black-bag waste.
- within residences, there will be some form of method for collecting recyclables - whether these are plastic boxes or racks from which green recycling bags can be hung will be confirmed in due course.

Making recycling easier and more accessible - and these measures will be combined with information inside halls and from management so that not only are the facilities in place, but the message is getting out to students too. The challenge is to integrate the whole waste reduction and recycling issue within how Residential and Hospitality Services operates - let's see what happens.

From my perspective, it's about time - we can expect no less.