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Llangollen Friends of the Earth teamed up with Ysgol Dinas Bran today to urge the Government to boost recycling in order to halve the rubbish which people have to put into their black bin bags.<\/p>\n

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Pupils at Ysgol Dinas Bran in Llangollen took part by each taking home a bag to fill with unwanted textiles, children\u2019s books and leather goods.\u00a0 Amanda Edwards, teacher and vice-chair of Dinas Bran Eco-Council said \u201cMany of items which the children have collected, such as shoes, are not in good enough condition to take into the charity shops.\u00a0 As Denbighshire Council does not currently offer textile recycling in its door-to-door collections, most of what we\u2019ve collected would have just been thrown away\u201d.<\/p>\n

The school is also paid per tonne of recycled goods they collect, meaning that as well as stopping items being unnecessarily thrown away, this project also has the added bonus of generating an income for the school.\u00a0 Amanda Edwards went on to say \u201cThe collection is still ongoing, and we would welcome any members of the public who would like to drop off unwanted textiles, leather goods or children\u2019s books into our main reception\u201d.<\/p>\n

Kay Polley from Llangollen Friends of the Earth said \u201cThis is a great example of how people want to do more recycling, but often don\u2019t have the opportunity to do so.\u00a0 This is why we are urging Government to do more so that we can halve \u2018black bag\u2019 waste my 2020\u201d.<\/p>\n

Local politicians have also been showing their support for the campaign.\u00a0 Susan Elan Jones, MP for Clwyd South said \u201cRecycling is so important, and this project is fantastic as there is an added incentive for the school.\u00a0 We can all definitely do more, but currently there are disparities between different councils, meaning some people are able to recycle more than others\u201d. \u00a0<\/p>\n

Eleanor Burnham, AM for North Wales also noted this fact when she said \u201cI appreciate that it can be difficult for some people where door-to-door collections do not take as much recycling as in other areas\u201d.\u00a0 The AM also went on to say that as she is lucky enough to live close to recycling facilities, she has recently been making use of these amenities in order to reduce her own household rubbish. She added \u201cIt\u2019s up to all of us to do our best\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Llangollen Friends of the Earth teamed up with Ysgol Dinas Bran today to urge the Government to boost recycling in order to halve the rubbish which people have to put into their black bin bags. \u00a0 Pupils at Ysgol Dinas Bran in Llangollen took part by each taking home a bag to fill with unwanted […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.llangollenfoe.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.llangollenfoe.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.llangollenfoe.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.llangollenfoe.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.llangollenfoe.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/www.llangollenfoe.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":127,"href":"http:\/\/www.llangollenfoe.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82\/revisions\/127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.llangollenfoe.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.llangollenfoe.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.llangollenfoe.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}