Residents urged to cut back on waste

Herefordshire residents are being urged to make a resolution to reduce household waste in 2008.

As part of Herefordshire Council’s Steps to Sustainability campaign, residents are being urged to cut down the amount of waste they produce.

Suggestions for this include cutting down on excess packaging, preventing junk mail and re-using, recycling and composting.

Herefordshire Council will be encouraging people to make these kinds of changes and to look at other issues that impact on the environment, the economy and health and well being.

The ‘Steps to Sustainability’ simple guide is available from the website www.herefordshire.gov.uk and in leaflet form from Info Shops and council offices from the end of the month.

It illustrates what the council is committed to doing to promote sustainability and tackle climate change.

Councillor John Jarvis, Herefordshire Council’s cabinet member for the environment and strategic housing said: “Sustainability is at the heart of everything we do.

“It is embedded in the way we conduct our business and in our efforts to encourage others to adopt behaviours and actions that will also help.”

“We are hoping that by reading the ‘steps’ guide people will identify what they can do to make a difference, and work with us to tackle some of the dilemmas that face society today,” he added.

The council is currently reviewing its household waste strategy and will be consulting with householders over the next few months.