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COMPANY PLEADS GUILTY TO FLYPOSTING IN STOCKPORT

Ultimate Kitchens (NW) Ltd trading as The Kitchen Showroom pleaded guilty to seven offences of flyposting at Stockport Magistrates Court on Wednesday 5th February.   The company was fined £250 per offence, a total of £1,750 and ordered to pay £994.16 towards all … [Read more...]

HOME SAFETY SCHEME HELPS PROTECT TODDLERS

In a bid to keep toddlers injury free at home Stockport Council has teamed up with Stockport Homes to offer the Home Safety Scheme.  The scheme offers eligible Stockport Homes tenants who are parents the opportunity to have stair-gates, drawer and cupboard locks, fireguards and blind cord … [Read more...]

UK HITS CARPET RECYCLING TARGET REPORTS ‘CRUK’ STOCKPORT

Carpet Recycling UK has beaten landfill diversion target two years early, according to figures released by Carpet Recycling UK (CRUK) of Stockport, indicating that 107,000 metric tons of scrap carpet was reused, recycled and recovered in the United Kingdom in 2013, a 21% increase on 2012. CRUK … [Read more...]

GIVE LIFE TO YOUR CHRISTMAS TREE

Stockport Council is urging residents not to abandon their real Christmas trees this year, but to give them a new life by recycling. Chopped up Christmas trees can be put it in the green wheelie bin, or placed whole alongside the green food caddy for the first green waste collection of the New … [Read more...]

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...]