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FESTIVE RECYCLING AND WASTE COLLECTIONS

Stockport Council is encouraging residents to recycle as much as possible over the festive period as part of its ‘Right Thing, Right Bin’ initiative.   Residents now also have the facility to recycle more of their household waste, using their wheelie bins. This includes wrapping … [Read more...]

STOCKPORT TOPS RECYCLING TABLES

Stockport Council is thanking green-minded residents for helping the borough be the best for recycling in the North West. Stockport residents are once again leading the way, recycling more than any other metropolitan authority and 6th out of the 354 councils nationally. Councillor Stuart … [Read more...]

GROUNDWORK HOST SEMINAR ON WASTE MANAGEMENT

Marketing Stockport's environmental champions are hosting a lunchtime seminar, for both members and non-members of the Green Business Membership, on 25th November 2013 11.30am at The Palace Hotel in Manchester. The seminar will focus on the subject matter of Waste Management and supply chain … [Read more...]

STOCKPORT CHIEF EXECUTIVE TAKES ON CHINA CHALLENGE

Helen McHale, Chief Executive of Stockport Homes certainly likes a challenge! She has agreed to walk the Great Wall of China in October to raise much needed funds for Stockport Homes’ charity of year: Beechwood Cancer Care.             … [Read more...]

ACORN BUSINESS PARK’S BRONZE AWARD WINNERS

Two businesses in Acorn Business Park have achieved the Bronze Environmental Business Pledge Award with the help of Groundwork Manchester, Salford, Stockport, Tameside and Trafford (MSSTT). Both Fairhurst Estates - a leading firm of commercial charted surveyors, and Print Image Network, one of … [Read more...]

MP CALLS FOR BREDBURY ‘STINK’ TO BE PRIORITY

Andrew Stunell is urging waste companies to treat the problem of the apparent foul odour eminating around Bredbury to be a priority for action. A meeting of waste companies, the Environment Agency and the GM Waste Authority held last month has been told by the MP for Hazel Grove that fixing the … [Read more...]

STOCKPORT SCHOOLS SUPPORT RECYCLE WEEK

Three Stockport schools recycled nearly 400kg of broken and unwanted electrical items as part of Recycle Week. Recycle for Greater Manchester set up 28 ‘Don’t Bin it Bring it’ recycling points in schools and businesses with support from recycling and waste management partner … [Read more...]

LifeLEISURE TAKE ON COAST-TO-COAST CHALLENGE

A team of eleven Life Leisure employees are undertaking the gruelling challenge of cycling coast to coast (100 miles) in one day, to raise money for Sefton Village Orphanage in the Philippines. The cycle takes place on Friday 26th July, when the team will set off from Whitley Bay on the east … [Read more...]

STOCKPORT RESIDENTS TO BECOME ‘CARBON LITERATE’

Stockport residents from Offerton, Romiley and Cheadle will be amongst the first people in Stockport to become Carbon Literate, as part of Groundwork's 'Sustainable Living in Stockport' project. After spending a glorious sunny day visiting low carbon projects across Greater Manchester with some … [Read more...]

SUCCESSFUL RIVER MERSEY CLEAN-UP OPERATION

Stockport Council have been working in partnership with the Environment Agency to clean-up a stretch of the River Mersey where approximately two tonnes of waste was taken away including tyres, pallets and street cones.  The clean-up operation started from the Bear Pit by the bus station in … [Read more...]

CORONATION HONOUR FOR STOCKPORT MEADOW

Chadkirk Meadows in Stockport have been selected as one of only 60 sites across the country to be part of the Coronation Meadows Project to commemorate the 60th anniversary of The Queen’s Coronation.  Chadkirk Meadows were selected by Plantlife in partnership with the Wildlife Trust … [Read more...]