London recycling scheme to continue

improving city’s efforts to be green

Cory Environmental has teamed up with the Western Riverside Waste Authority (WRWA) to pledge £700,000 towards the high profile Recycle Western Riverside Programme, safeguarding the programme’s future.

 Funding for the programme, from the Landfill Tax Credit Scheme, ended last year and the new funding means recycling organisations London Remade Solutions and Waste Watch, can continue to run the recycling, waste minimisation, communication and education programme until 2010.

 The Recycle Western Riverside Programme works to encourage local residents, schools, businesses and other organisations to be actively involved in recycling and reducing their waste.  It is delivered to the London Boroughs of Hammersmith and Fulham, Lambeth, Wandsworth and the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea.

 Fran Comerford-Cole, General Manager, Transfer Stations, Cory Environmental said: “The Recycle Western Riverside Programme has played a vital part in encouraging recycling efforts, and reducing the amount of waste sent to landfill. We are delighted to be able to help this project carry on.”

 The new funding means the programme can continue to encourage recycling across the four Western Riverside Boroughs, with extra emphasis on educating children, teachers and parents at local schools on the importance of recycling.

 Fran continues: “The school’s education programme, ‘Recycle at School’, has already proved a success with around 130 schools in the area joining the scheme, leading to an average 50 per cent reduction in waste, with some schools reducing waste by 90 per cent.”

 Cory Environmental has been operating for over 100 years and is one of the UK’s leading waste management companies, managing in excess of 3.5 million tonnes of waste and recyclables every year. For its London waste operations, the company uses a fleet of tugs to transport waste on the River Thames, taking lorries off the roads.

 Cory also provides funding to a number of community projects UK-wide, through the Cory Environmental Trust in Britain (CETB), which was started in 2003 and has provided a total of £2.4 million of funding to over 60 projects to date.

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 For more information, please contact:

Lynne Cure at Cory Environmental on 020 7417 5200 or email lcure@coryenvironmental.co.uk or

Daisy Halliday at DTW Vavasour on 01233 614 525 or email daisy@dtwv.co.uk.