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STOCKPORT URGED TO PARTICIPATE IN CLIMATE WEEK

Residents and businesses in Stockport are being urged to go green and to celebrate and participate in Climate Week, from 3rdto the 9th March 2014. Climate Week is Britain’s biggest climate change campaign, inspiring a new wave of action to create a sustainable future. Culminating in a week … [Read more...]

SEASHELL TRUST STUDENTS BURY TREASURE

A special school and college have buried a treasure trove of memories to be discovered by future students. The current students at Seashell Trust have buried time capsules under new buildings to show what life was like at the charity for disabled young people in 2014. The trust, on Stanley … [Read more...]

STOCKPORT SCHOOLS HELPING PARENTS MAKE ‘SMART SWAPS’

Stockport primary school children are set to benefit from a healthier start to 2014 by taking part in the new Change4Life campaign. As part of Stockport Council’s ‘Get Involved in a Healthier Stockport’ initiative,  the Change4Life ‘Smart Swaps’ campaign aims to … [Read more...]

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...]