Local Works

Local Works is the home site for supporters of the Sustainable Communities Bill.

In essence, it's wanting to promote more control of local communities by those communities, supported by the Government, and promoting sustainability.

More details can be found at the link above but this is one campaign that I'm really rooting for

Pay for rubbish

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/08012007/140/new-pay-throw-rubbish-plan.html

The idea is that rather than getting your rubbish picked up for free, your recycling is picked up instead. I'm all for this with one little proviso - our local council (lewisham) is less than stellar at it's recycling pickups.

8 flats share 3 recycling bins and the only pickups are when myself or the better half call up to complain about the lack of service - hardly the weekly pickup we were promised.

Though, part of the problem may be some of the neighbours who still haven't read the list of items that Lewisham take (not as big as you would think). I'm having to pull out about a bin-bag of rubbish a week, removing non-recyclable items.