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	Recycle your old fridge to help local families 15 June 2010 When salad goes brown you get rid of it, when milk starts to turn you throw it away, but what about your fridge itself? If your fridge is past its sell-by date, then bring it to your Household Waste Recycling Centre this Recycle Week (21 – 27 June) and help a local family in need. Recycle Week is a national event organised by the Recycle Now campaign. Now in its sixth year, the aim of the week is to encourage more people to recycle more things, more often. This year’s theme is Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE) and to mark this, Veolia ES Nottinghamshire is working with prominent local housing charity Family First to recondition old fridges for local families. Kevin Parker, Communications Manager at Veolia ES Nottinghamshire (Nottinghamshire County Council’s waste management contractor) says: “We are really pleased to be working with Family First in a partnership which both promotes reuse and helps local people. This Recycle Week, please bring your old fridge to your local Household Waste Recycling Centre and if it can be re-conditioned, we’ll make sure it’s given a new home with a local family.” Three out of every four of us has at least one old or unused electrical item in our home which could be recycled to help save precious resources1. Many of these items contain important plastics and metals that can be recycled to make new products. Dilwyn Evans, Senior Service Manager at Family First says: “Our recycling and reuse service helps tenants who are moving into a new home and cannot afford to buy even essential pieces of equipment, such as a fridge. The partnership with Veolia ES Nottinghamshire will help maximise the income of people in need, while also benefiting the environment by reducing waste, discouraging fly-tipping and ensuring useable items do not go to landfill.” Photo opportunity Date: Monday 21 June Time: 1 p.m Place: West Bridgford Household Waste Recycling Centre, Rugby Road, West Bridgford, Nottinghamshire NG2 7HX To launch the scheme, representatives of Veolia ES Nottinghamshire, Family First and Nottinghamshire County Council’s waste management team will be photographed with some old fridges. If you would like to send a photographer or receive photos after the event, please contact Amy Roberts, Waste Awareness Officer at Veolia ES Nottinghamshire on 0115 850 5900 / 07825 863 058; or via amy.roberts@veolia.co.uk [Ends] Further information 1 = Recycle Now, 2010: http://www.recyclenow.com/what_can_i_do_today/recycle_week_21_to.html For more information on Household Waste Recycling Centres, please contact Veolia ES Nottinghamshire on 0115 850 5900 or visit www.veolia.co.uk/nottinghamshire Family First is part of the LHA-ASRA Group, which manages a substantial number of houses across Nottinghamshire. It is a leading provider of affordable housing, care and support, and recycling services for Nottinghamshire residents. Their work includes managing and maintaining affordable homes; recycling unwanted furniture and household items together with kidstuff; providing accommodation for young mothers and babies; and supporting people with mental health issues. For more information, visit http://www.familyfirst.org.uk Notes to the Editor Since 2006 Veolia Environmental Services, via a dedicated subsidiary, Veolia Environmental Services Nottinghamshire Ltd; has been helping Nottinghamshire County Council to manage household waste created in the County. Over the life of the 26 year PFI waste management contract Veolia ES Nottinghamshire will help to increase recycling to 52% by 2020 / 21 and to significantly reduce the amount of waste going to landfill. To date, Veolia ES Nottinghamshire has: • Provided waste awareness and education initiatives across the County • Provided a Materials Recovery Facility in Mansfield, which has the capacity to handle around 85,000 tonnes per year of mixed dry recyclables from Nottinghamshire households. This includes paper, cardboard, plastic bottles and metal tins / cans • Established a new, split-level Household Waste Recycling Centre (HWRC) to serve Worksop • Taken over the management of some of the County’s Household Waste Recycling Centres, establishing a unified approach and increasing standards at the sites to help maximise recycling levels achieved • Refurbished several of the HWRCs to make them more modern and user-friendly • Used existing, planned, constructed and licensed landfill sites to take residual waste from Nottinghamshire households In the future, Veolia ES Nottinghamshire plans to: • Create a network of new transfer stations to serve Newark and Worksop • Utilise existing sites at Giltbrook and south Nottingham to receive and handle waste and recyclables from Borough and District council collections • Continue our long-term refurbishment programme of the HWRCs • Construct an 180,000 tonne per year Energy Recovery Facility in the Mansfield / Ashfield area to convert residual waste into power. The 15MW of energy recovered from the energy recovery process would be the equivalent of providing power to around 22,000 homes • Provide a new composting facility in central Nottinghamshire and to utilise other existing composting sites, to handle a total of 100,000 tonnes of green waste per year • Continue providing waste awareness and education initiatives across the County, in partnership with Nottinghamshire County Council Veolia Environmental Services, part of the Veolia Environnement Group, is the UK’s leading waste management company. With a sizeable presence throughout the UK, mainland Europe and the world, Veolia Environmental Services employs 105,000 people worldwide, servicing more than 79 million customers in over 32 countries. Veolia Environmental Services is the only global provider of a full range of services for handling hazardous and non-hazardous solid and liquid waste. It provides waste management and logistics services as well as materials recovery and recycling. Veolia Environmental Services generated revenue of €9.05 billion in 2009. Veolia Environnement (Paris Euronext: VIE and NYSE: VE) is the worldwide reference in environmental services. The company has operations all around the world and provides tailored solutions to meet the needs of municipal and industrial customers in four complementary segments: water management, waste management, energy management and freight and passenger transportation. Veolia Environnement recorded revenue of €34.5 billion in 2009. Further information can be obtained by visiting the websites: www.veolia.co.uk www.veoliaenvironnement.com Veolia Environnement is proud to be the title sponsor of the Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition

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