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Make Recycling a
New Year's Resolution!
SEFTON'S residents are
being urged to make recycling a New Year's Resolution by North
West-based Palm Recycling who under take the kerbside recycling
service on behalf of Sefton Council. Cllr. Trish Hardy,
Cabinet Member Environmental, Sefton Council, said:-
"Recycling rates in Sefton are improving year by year. However,
there's always more that we can do. Why not make a New Year's
Resolution to recycle more things, more often? It would be great for
all glass bottles and jars, cans and every bit of paper used in
Sefton to be recycled, as well as any textiles and food waste. The
weekly kerbside recycling collection service provided in Sefton
makes it as easy to recycle as it is to throw it in the bin."
Ruairi Holyoake, North West Operations Manager for Palm
Recycling, added:- "Waste created during the festive period is
at an all time high and much of this can be recycled. Think about
the environment and try not to put anything recyclable into the
waste bin. Please use the weekly kerbside recycling service provided
by Palm Recycling for all your glass bottles and jars, cans, paper,
textiles and food waste." The blue bag can be used to
recycle newspapers, magazines and all other paper-based items, which
is transferred to Palm's state-of-the-art paper mill where it is
reprocessed into fresh newsprint. The green box can be used to
recycle empty cranberry sauce and pickled onion jars, beer and wine
bottles and lager cans, as well as biscuit tins and aluminium foil.
The glass is recycled into new glass products, whilst aluminium tins
and steel cans are recycled into new metal products. The food
waste collection service using the caddies and kerbside food waste
bin, can be used to dispose of all leftovers from the New Year
celebrations. Food waste collected in Sefton is transported to a
special processing plant in West Yorkshire that composts it for use
in horticulture. The weekly textiles recycling collection service,
collected via the pink bag, can be used for clothing, paired shoes,
accessories, household linen and curtains. Ruairi continued:-
"If your recycling containers get full, extra glass bottles and
jars, cans and paper can be put out for recycling in plastic carrier
bags next to the green box and our crews will collect them too."
Residents not currently opted into the food waste collection
scheme can request a food waste bin for outside, an internal kitchen
food waste caddy and an information pack, free of charge, by
contacting Sefton Council on:- 0845 140 0845. Free extra or
replacement blue bags for paper recycling, pink bags for textiles
and green boxes for glass bottles and jars and tins/cans and aerosol
cans may also be requested by calling this number.
Green Party
backs rail fare protests!
THE Green Party leader
Natalie Bennett has offered her party's support for protests against
the further significant rise in rail fares. British rail fares have
been hiked for 10 years in succession and our trains are now the
most expensive in Europe. Natalie said:- "Households already
struggling with fast-rising rents, food prices and energy costs are
going to suffer a new blow. Many households that consider themselves
middle class, who only a few years ago were comfortably off, are now
struggling, finding themselves able to make ends meet only by
extreme economies ranging from skipping meals to unhealthily cutting
heating. Many others have already been priced off the rails; forced
into convoluted, long bus journeys or into their cars when they'd
rather not be, adding to congestion on our roads and increasing our
greenhouse gas emissions. All of this only highlights the sense of
renationalising the railways, to save us the £1.2 billion additional
costs caused by the fragmentation and profit taking in the current
system, as the Rebuilding Rail report last year showed.
Privatization has also given us a fragile, unreliable system in
which fewer than 70% of trains run on time, i.e. within a minute,
the measure used in much of the rest of Europe. Britons have the
longest commutes in Europe, reflecting the concentration of job
opportunities in larger centres, and high house prices, rents and
the shortage of social housing. We need to cut the cost of train
travel, but we also need to reduce people's need to travel. This is
one more reason why we need to look to rebuild strong local
economies, promoting small businesses and cooperatives that are
growing food, making the goods we need and provide services on a
local scale." More information can be found via these
links:-
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Review of the
Regulations of Cosmetic Interventions comments
PROFESSOR Kirwan, who was
born in Liverpool, is a Plastic Surgery practitioner with Plastic
Surgery practices in Abu Dhabi as well as in both the USA and UK.
On 1 January 2012, he gave this
response to the media, following the publication of an interim
report which has urged on tighter restrictions on cosmetic surgery
in the UK. The report followed responses to a public consultation on
cosmetic surgery, showing very strong support for a ban on cut-price
deals and aggressive selling. The consultation came after concerns
over health risks had surfaced in December 2011, following the
scandal over the Poly Implant Prostheses (PIP) implants made by a
French company.
Prof. Laurence Kirwan
MD said:- "I am a 100%
behind regulation in favour of good medical practice. Many of the
recommendations are already basic rules of the ethics policy of the
American Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery, such as not
promoting surgery as a prize in a raffle. Banning free consultations
and non-physician consultations is ideal and will affect all levels
of the industry. The USA would do well to do the same where big
business is taking over cosmetic surgery such as in the Lifestyle
Lift which uses heavy marketing and patient consultants (sales
people). Physicians should be the only ones to advise. There are
other fields such as LASIK surgery which also use aggressive
marketing and should be regulated. It seems that many of these
suggestions should be implemented by the licensing bodies such as
the General Medical Council and the respective medical societies,
which already oversee standards. Another layer seems redundant.
Hopefully this report will be the beginning of a new era.
Unfortunately, I did not see anything in the interim report to
explain the regulatory failure of the government when it comes to
PIP which was the tinder that sparked the fire in the first place.
It seems that we are recalling 'the driver instead of the car'. Is
the consumer going to be any safer in the future with the current CE
system of approval of medical implants? No tighter standards, no
government liability or corporate responsibility is recommended for
the immediate future. In that respect I think we are still as
vulnerable to another PIP type storm in the future."
Also writing in the foreword to the summary of responses, the
British Government's Health Secretary, Sir Bruce said the
responses:- "send a clear message that the current regulatory
framework doesn't do enough to support consumer rights or patient
safety."
A final report, by Sir Bruce Keogh, the NHS medical director leading
the English review, is due in March 2013.
Have you been affected by any of
the issues raised in the:- "Review of the Regulations of
Cosmetic Interventions" (link)
and do you agree or disagree with the views that
Liposuction treatment Cosmetic procedures should not be sold
aggressively? Email us your thoughts to:-
news24@southportreporter.com.
Did you know that:-
► It is suspected that up
to 40,000 women in the UK have the silicone implants, mostly done
privately rather than on the NHS.
► The consultation had 180 responses; the
majority were in favour of tighter restrictions on the advertising
of cosmetic surgery.
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