Autumn 2009 - Islington Council

Good news –
you now can recycle
more than ever before!
Keeping an eye on
our environment
Sustainability – protecting our
environment and making sure
we have a good quality of life
both now and in the future – is a
key council priority, and a major
international issue.
You can now place drinks cartons
and household plastic packaging
(such as yoghurt pots and fruit
punnets) out for recycling,
in addition to all your other
recyclables. This means that there
will be practically no materials
left for you to throw out!
You can now recycle:
Cartons (tetra paks)
Household plastic packaging
– bottles and packaging
containers of any colour
Cardboard – boxes, corrugated
card and greetings cards
Glass – jars and bottles of all
colours
Metal tins, cans and packaging
– food and drink cans, empty
aerosol cans, aluminium foil and
metal caps
Paper – newspapers,
magazines, catalogues, yellow
pages, junk mail and envelopes
(including windowed)
This has been made possible as we
will now be sending your recycling
to new Materials Recovery Facilities
(MRFs) which are capable of sorting
a wider range of materials.
If you want to find out more about
the full range of materials that you
can now recycle, please visit
www.islington.gov.uk/recycling
Islington’s State of the Environment
Report 2009 gives an update on the
health of our environment providing
the broadest picture yet of the
quality of our local environment. Its
aim is to raise awareness of the key
environmental issues in Islington and
encourage innovative action with
chapters on the build environment,
biodiversity, climate change, transport,
recycling and may other issues.
For the first time the report contains
information on climate adaptation.
Adaptation is the way in which
we make changes to the physical
environment and to our everyday lives
to ensure that we can cope with the
already changing climate. This could
involve installing a green wall, changing
what we plant or simply advising
people how to deal with extreme heat.
The report will be available in hard copy
and on the council’s website from mid
October. Look out for copies available in
the Green Living Centre and website
eyesmagazine
Images courtesy of Groundwork and St Luke’s Parochial Trust.
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