Recycling
After years of campaigning for more recycling, we're finally seeing a lot of progress - with almost all Calderdale's households now provided with a kerbside collection, and strong promotional activity under the banner 'Recycle for Calderdale'.  We congratulate the Council and all the other recycling partners on these positive developments, but there's a lot more to do - particularly to increase the range of materials that can be recycled in the kerbside collections.

2006 will see the Council consulting about their new long-term way strategy, and we will be campaigning hard for better recycling (and against any 'nasties' such as incineration that might just emerge!)

We gave our general support to the Harlequin composting scheme at Sharneyford, Todmorden, which has now been approved by the Council and which will provide 50,000 tonnes composting capacity in Calderdale, after having listened to both sides of the argument about the planning application, and despite a certain amount of disinformation about the scheme. ... for all the Friends of the Earth briefings on waste & recycling