CSPR helps raise recycling awareness in Monmouthshire schools

15 Jan 2003

December 2002

PRN funds, allocated by Garvin Freeman - CSPR’s Regional Recycling Development Executive for Wales, West & Midlands - have been used to purchase can crushers for two Monmouthshire schools. The aim of the project is to encourage ecological responsibility among students by increasing recycling initiatives and communication in local schools.

Paul Quayle, Waste Strategy Officer at Monmouthshire County Council, says:

"The Council’s Waste Strategy is to reduce the amount of material going to landfill and to start considering much of our waste as a resource. The first step towards this goal, we believe, is to communicate the importance of recycling to young people."

Garvin Freeman, from Corus Steel Packaging Recycling, says:
"We are keen to assist Monmouth in getting pupils to reconsider what is ‘rubbish’. Used steel cans and other scrap steel are actually a valuable resource; they form an important part of the steel manufacturing process. In this case the cans collected by these schools will be recycled at the Corus works in Port Talbot."

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For further information please contact Garvin Freeman 01639 872043 or email garvin.freeman@corusgroup.com