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Launch of aluminium recycling campaign
11/07/2003
Environment Minister Ross Finnie today launched a
national campaign on the environmental and community
benefits of recycling aluminium.
The 'Get Recycling' campaign, spearheaded by the
Aluminium Packaging Recycling Organisation (
Alupro), will
result in a tree being planted in communities across
Scotland for every tonne of aluminium recycled.
'Get Recycling' is one of a number of projects which is
backed by the
National Waste Plan to encourage Scots to recycle more
and take responsibility over the environment, reduce
pollution and improve communities.
Mr Finnie said:
"This scheme complements the work of the Scottish
Executive in turning around Scotland's poor recycling
record and it will assist in the Executive's ambitious
drive to recycle 25 per cent of all municipal waste by
2006. It is only by working together that that ambition can
be realised.
"This is an excellent project which emphasises how doing
a little to change our throwaway habits can bring benefits
to our communities and I hope its key message is adopted by
households throughout Scotland."
The organisation has written to all Scottish local
authorities to sign up to the scheme. So far, Shetland,
Borders, Inverclyde, Perth & Kinross, Argyll &
Bute, Dumfries, Aberdeenshire, Moray, Highland and
Clackmannanshire councils have all signed up to the
scheme.
Any local authority or organisation expecting to
collect over a tonne of aluminium cans or foil in a year
can register with Alupro. Cans will be collected through
kerbside collections schemes where local authorities
operate these and can banks at supermarkets and recycling
centres.
The 'Get Recycling' campaign encourages householders to
recycle and to persuade them how easy it is to do.
Alupro hopes to plant 35,000 native trees in community
woodlands and towns and villages across the UK by July
2004.