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FREE BAGS FOR KIRKLEES SCHOOLS RECYCLING MILK
CARTONS
Pass this on to your friends who
need Free bags for the milk cartons.
1.
Make sure you email the Manager at Dewsbury see attached details sent by Anne
Dixon FRESH PASTURES. For bags, Sita are willing to leave bags on
request.
2. Please can we make sure the milk cartons are EMPTY. Sita say they can be fined for
contaminating the highways with the milk coming out from the back of the wagon.
So
let’s empty them, if I doubt put the full ones to one side for out of school
clubs etc. or put them in the normal waste. We don’t want to lose this
recycling scheme all for the sake of educating staff and the children to empty
the cartons.
3.
Collection Problems. If your wheelie bin does not get emptied also email he
manager at Dewsbury who will be more than willing to help.
IF
YOU REQUIRE THE EMAIL ADDRESS PLEASE EMAIL ME
EMAIL ME HERE
Hope
this helps
Peter
Caretaker
St Johns CE J+I School
www.schoolsrecycle.org
Do you know which date you can start
recycling from?
Not sure well have a look at the fortnightly collection dates. You will be able
to do a fortnightly collection, up to 4 green bins every 2 weeks.
Some off you will not get the chance un til 2010, which is madness, I am now
contacting Councillors to get the schools recycling now. The schools that want
to recycle should be able to do it now and not wait years.
Send me your thoughts or support, the more I can take to meetings the better
the response. You can also contact your local councillors to put on extra
pressure.
THE MORE YOU RECYCLE THE MORE YOU SAVE.
I am being told you will need to contact the waste department and request the
bins. You can contact them via the link on KMC website. http://http://www.kirklees.gov.uk/eGov/emailForm/index.asp?mailto=environmental.waste@kirklees.gov.uk
or
Tel: 01484 414700
THE DATES ARE AS FOLLOWS
July, 2007
Denby Dale, Clayton West, Scissett,
Skelmanthorpe, Shelley, Shepley, Kirkburton, Emley, Flockton, Dalton, Rawthorpe
and Kirkheaton.
September/ October, 2007
Scholes, Holmfirth, New Mill, Honley, Brockholes, Berry Brow, Meltham,
Netherton, Newsome, Lowerhouses and Springwood.
February/March, 2008
Marsden, Slaithwaite, Golcar,
Linthwaite, Longwood, Mount, Lindley, Marsh, Birkby, Highfields, Birchencliffe,
Fixby and Fartown.
Summer, 2008, or February/March, 2009
Ravensthorpe, Hopton, Mirfield, Roberttown, Hartshead, Cleckheaton, Scholes,
Birkenshaw, Heckmondwike, Gomersal, Hanging Heaton, Chickenley and Earlsheaton.
2009/10
Bradley, Sheepridge, Deighton,
Brackenhall, Cowlersley, Milnsbridge, Crosland Moor, Aspley, Marsh, Salendine
Nook, Outlane, Thornhill, Savile Town, Batley, Birstall, Dewsbury and
Staincliffe.
I received an email from Steven just as we were about to get rid of some old computers and stuff. I went to I was touched and found myself moved by the picture of the little girl. I also felt ashamed that I was worried about how I will get all my stuff done before i go on holiday. i take everything for granted, and i am sure we all do if we were honest enough to admit it. If in some way I can help by emailing you all, asking you to consider giving your unwanted computer items to Land of Smiles. I will even collect them from you, so Steven can collect them from me.
If I had one thing I would ask from you all is, take a look at the site, and make your own minds up. LAND OF SMILES
My name is Steven Woodhouse and I am currently recycling PCs for charity "www.landofsmiles.co.uk"
I found your site by following a link from one of the schools that has kindly donated to us and thought Id make my charity known to you. Though primarily we are collecting through fundraising concerts we are now supplementing that by recycling PCs and have had much help from the schools system towards this goal. We are desperately short on PC towers and peripherals, keyboards, mice, sound cards, graphics cards, memory, cd drives etc. PC Recycling for charity Who are we? We are a group of three professional people based in Lancashire and Yorkshire who visited Thailand on a humanitarian holiday in January of this year to see the work that still needs to be done two years on from the tsunami. Whilst in Thailand we visited the BAN NAM KHEM orphanage and met the children and the staff and asked them the best way that we could help. They informed us that they were currently renting land behind the orphanage to grow crops and that was putting a strain on their finances. If the land was theirs they could become self sustained and even sell excess crops at the market. The cost of the land is 42,900 Baht which is around £6000.00 (UK Sterling) and we have already raised half of that amount. We have set up a website so that people can have a look at what we are doing. Check us out online for more information. We are raising funds in several ways through charity concerts, sponsorship, donations, and by recycling unwanted pcs. Should you have any unwanted PC related parts Pcs, monitors, printers, scanners, drives, memory, modems, sound cards etc we will gladly pick them up and recycle them for charity. Kind regards Steve Woodhouse Tel: 07775 578644 Let’s Make A Difference! Please no 15" crt monitors as we have many in store. St Johns School Going Greener
Thanks to the foresight of the Schools Governors and the backing of the Head of the School Mrs Benford.
St Johns CE (A) Junior & Infant school moved a huge step forward in saving money and the reducing of the schools carbon foot print.
With the energy audit now complete at our school, I settled down to tackle the areas we need to improve on.
Water was – Good Electric was – Poor Gas was – poor
With this in mind, I tackled the water first. After checking for leaking taps etc. I installed water saving bags from Yorkshire water into the toilet systems in the cloakrooms. Great way of saving water, reduces a litre of water on each flush “please check your systems are able to accept the bag” and with 22 flushers in school. 18 of them old type now with water bags in them.
“20 flushes per toilet on average in a school per day” as quoted by Yorkshire water (I think this would be closer to 300-350 flushes a Day with 220 children and 22 staff)
You do the Math : 18 toilets 5 days a week 40 weeks of the year 20 times a day. = A lot of water 72000 litres saving or 144000 mugs of tea which is 394 mugs of tea a day! Over the year
Electrical
A very Speial thanks to Carlton from A+Electrical Ltd who quoted and advised the way forward.
see the link
Then I looked at the types of lighting we have. We do have the auto detection devices when you enter the room, the lights come on, and when you leave after a while they go off, the sensor picks up movement. Some teachers moan they go off while they are in the class room, I have told them to stop falling asleep and move once in a while!!
Then we have the dreaded tungsten spot lights, who ever thought these would be good in a school, must have shares in electricity.
In our school we have the following.
1. There are 33, low voltage 12v 50watt and 13, 240v 50watt a total of 46 tungsten spotlights/lamps. Using 2.3Kwph between the hours of 0800 to 1730 = 9.5 hours per day, 5 days a week over a 40 week school year. Total 1900hrs
1A. Electric usage. 46 lamps using 2.3Kwph 40 week year @ 9.5hrs per day = 1900hrs x 2.3kwph = 4370kw x 6.8p per Kwh = £297.16 (This does not include holidays and extended school hours)
1B. We replaced 32 lamps last year from April 06 to March 07. At a cost of £1.37 + vat each = £43.84 for the year. (I need to replace 19 now already)
Total for the year is 1A £297.16 + 1B £43.84= £341.00
So I thought why not try the following.
2. Replace the 46 lamps with 7watt low voltage low energy/LED lamps giving the same output of 50watts. Each lamp would cost £5.25 = £241.50
2A. 46 lamps using 300Wph 40 week year @ 9.5hrs per day = 1900hrs x 300Wph = 570kwh x 6.8p per Kw = £38.76 (This does not include holidays and extended school hours)
2B No expected replacements for over 3 years.
Total for this year is, 2 £241.50 + 2A £38.76 = £280.26
Saving
Take section 1 £341.00 subtract section 2 £280.26 leaving an annual predicted saving for this year of £60.74 and this includes the initial investment of £148.50 for the new lamps, leaving the second year savings predicted to be (1 £341.00 - 2 £38.76)= £ 302.24 at 2007 prices.
I did not stop there; I looked at the “STANDBY” situation on all our electrical items. Now I know we all do it, the VCR The DVD the Monitor The Microwave The Photocopier. All using electric, now I am not sure how much they all use, but TURN them OFF!
Last but not least I looked at the GAS, and I have to say this is the hardest thing to sort out, everyone says TREND this and TREND that, But what do they do? Well apart from getting about £340 per school per year. I don’t think much more? With the help of a man from the council, we walked round the school and found several things we could do to sort the increasing costs of heating the school.
1. Lag the surface mounted pipes to the radiators, reducing loss of heat, and heating the class room up when the radiators are turned off. £30 per room to lag the pipes.
2. Set the radiators to 19c or number 3 on the independent radiator controllers, if you have 3 radiators in a room, turn one of them off.
3. Reduce the lead times of the hot water and central heating, every half hour a day is 100 hours a year of heating.
4. Reduce the high set point to the water even by half a centigrade can make a lot of difference.
5. Turn the heating over to holiday setting during the holiday period (if your system allows it)
Finally Education is a key part of saving money, saving the environment. If it’s on, and does not have to be on then turn it off, if your hot, then turn the radiators down, and not to just open the windows. Replace the CRT monitors with the flat panel type reducing heat and also uses less electric.
1 million or 1,000,000
It does not matter how you say it? Kirklees still supply 1 million tetra cartons of milk to schools within its control. and not one of them can be recycled by the same council???
Hi I thought I would update you all on the “TETRA PAK” campaign with Kirklees Council.
I have now been able to involved the green party who has won our parish council elections and managed to get 2 seats in the local government elections., and with their help Kirklees Council now have to supply me with the details I request.
Below are many emails and replies to letters I have received. Enjoy.
Just look at the quantities of Tetra Pak Cartons. And now, as from April the glass bottles have stopped. So all the milk is supplied by Tetra Cartons, until a supplier is Found that can supply the council. ? the tender is for the contract in 2008? I
ts just madness………………….come on Kirklees wake up and smell the roses.
Children & Young People Service
Contract Management & Support
5th Floor
Oldgate House
2 Oldgate
Huddersfield HD1 6QW
West Yorkshire
Tel no: 01484 225223
Fax no: 01484 225182
gloria.sharman at kirklees.gov.uk
Our ref :FA/Milk/FOI/GES
Date: 23 May 2007
Dear Peter
INFORMATION RESPONSE FOR MILK SUPPLIED FREE OF CHARGE TO CHILDREN IN SCHOOLS
With reference to your email of 12 May 2007 requesting information concerning free milk supplied to Kirklees' schools and your response for further clarification.
Milk is provided to schools in both cartons and glass bottles and is free of charge to:
1. Children whose parents are in receipt of certain benefits which qualifies them for automatic entitlement to free milk, or :
2. Children below the age of 5 receiving KS1 education.
However, as you have been specific about the type of information you require I have only detailed this; these figures do not take account of the children who pay for the milk.
• The amount of milk supplied to schools in Kirklees in 1/3rd pint cartons, provided free of charge to children whose parents are in receipt of benefits which gives them an entitlement to receive free milk during 2006/2007 was 254,919.
• The amount of milk supplied to schools in Kirklees in 1/3rd pint recyclable glass bottles provided free of charge to children whose parents are in receipt of benefits which gives them an entitlement to receive free milk during 2006/2007 was 222,402.
• The amount of milk supplied to schools in 1/3rd pint cartons for nursery children (under the age of 5, KS1 are entitled to receive free milk) during 2006/2007 was 396,938.
• The amount of milk supplied to schools in 1/3rd pint recyclable glass bottles for nursery children (under the age of 5, KS1 are entitled to receive free milk) during 2006/2007 was 228,019.
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FA/Milk/FOI/GES
You requested specific information for St Johns CE (A) J&I School in Golcar for 1/3rd pint cartons supplied free during 2006/2007 which is detailed below:
• The number of cartons supplied to nursery children free of charge was 1,460.
• The number of cartons supplied to children whose parents are in receipt of
benefits which gives them an entitlement to receive free milk was 953
Kirklees Council is in the process of re-tendering the milk contract for the supply of milk to schools and as part of this, is actively seeking methods and types of supply which meets the authority's green ambition and sustainable procurement strategy.
Should you require any further information or seek clarity on any of the above information then please contact me directly at the above address.
Yours sincerely
G
Administration & Procurement Manager
Contract Management & Support
The Emails.
----- Original Message -----
From: Cllr Andrew Cooper
To: Peter ; Cllr Derek Hardcastle ; Cllr Graham Simpson
Sent: Friday, May 25, 2007 4:01 PM
Subject: Fw: Re: Milk information request
Peter
That sounds barmy. I wonder how many kids have ever been hurt with
glass bottles.
I'll chase this up
Regards
Andrew
>>> "Peter" 23/05/2007 18:47:05 >>>
please find the details attached. the council has stopped
bottles(glass) last month over health and saftey. so we are only using
cartons.
peter
----- Original Message -----
From: G
To: ecogranddad at dsl.pipex.com
Cc: Annie Taylor ; Cllr Graham Simpson ; Hayley Bradbury ; Juliet Stott
; Leif Wilks
Sent: Wednesday, May 23, 2007 4:06 PM
Subject: Fwd: Re: Milk information request
Hello Peter
Please find attached letter in response to your recent request for
information regarding free milk.
Regards
G
Administration & Procurement Manager
Children & Young People Service
Contract Management & Support
Kirklees Metropolitan Council
>>> G 16/05/2007 17:39 >>>
Hello Peter
Thankyou for your response. Your request is being processed, this may
take a few days to compile the information you have requested.
Regards
G
Administration & Procurement Manager
Children & Young People Service
Contract Management & Support
Kirklees Metropolitan Council
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>>> "Peter" 14/05/2007 19:11 >>>
Hello G
please find the alterations to your email, and thank you for
correcting my mistake about the quantaties of cartons. please find the
details in GREEN
With reference to your email of 12.5.07 to Hayley Bradbury and
Juliet
Stott regarding milk. I would be grateful if you could clarify some
of
the issues you have raised, before I am able to respond to your
request
for information.
1. You ask about "the free to schools", do you mean the milk that is
provided free of charge to children of parents who are in receipt of
certain benefits which entitles their child to receive free milk?
Yes
2. Which school are you referring to as there are two schools in
Kirklees called "St Johns School" Field head Golcar ? In General all
the schools in Kirkless and playgroups who receive "free milk"
3.You have a calculation of 340 cartons per week x 38 weeks =
12.920
per school x100 approx =1,292000 cartons a year approx i am using the
figures as a "approx" to get a feel of the quantaties involved.
4. You ask "how many cartons of milk a year Kirklees supply free to
schools" Can you clarify what you mean by free? Schools have a
mixture of pupils that pay for milk and pupils that are entitled to
receive free milk. No milk is actually supplied "free" to schools.
(ks1
and playgroups and entitled to receive free
milk).
I would be grateful if you could respond to the clarification
questions
above directly to my email address.
Regards
Administration & Procurement Manager
Children & Young People Service
Contract Management & Support
Kirklees Metropolitan Council
The reply from the Kirklees Councillors
Good Morning Andrew,
Tetrapacks are a real issue and as far as I remember the scheme they
have to be posted back to tetrapack which makes it expensive and not
cost effective. We will check it out and get back to you with more
information.
I am disappointed that SITA didn't respond and at least they should
have referred it to us.
As far as schools go I have spoken with Group Heads representing
schools who I thought were feeding back to schools in their group.
At Cabinet on the 30th members will be asked to approve the revised
implementation plan for the domestic scheme which now includes schools
and after this we will be in touch with schools via headnet which I
understand is the electronic means of reaching all schools.
Attached is the cabinet report about recycling in schools and it is OK
to pass this on to Peter if you wish
Please let me know if you require any further information at this
stage.
Steve
>>> Cllr Andrew Cooper 12/05/2007 16:53:13 >>>
Steve
Any thoughts about the attached?
Regards
Andrew
PS - Apologies for the SITA meeting - got a new job they expect me to
turn up a lot at the moment.
Cllr Andrew Cooper,
Green Party Councillor,
The letter.
KIRKLEES METROPOLITAN COUNCIL
REPORT TO:
CABINET
DATE:
11 APRIL 2007
STATUS OF REPORT:
PUBLIC
AREA COMMITTEES /
WARDS AFFECTED:
ALL
CABINET PORTFOLIO:
TRANSPORT & ENVIRONMENT
TITLE:
Recycling Plan For Schools
WHY IS IT COMING HERE / WHAT DECISION IS REQUIRED?
Approval to implement the Recycling Plan for Schools
Approval to waive office paper recycling fees for schools
IS THIS AN URGENT ACTION APPROVED BY THE CHAIR OF SCRUTINY?
NO
WHAT ARE THE KEY POINTS?
1.0 Background
1.1 Decisions to charge schools for refuse collection services were taken by the Council in November 1993 following the introduction of the Controlled Waste Regulations 1992 which introduced a range of discretionary charges.
1.2 Environmental Services provides refuse collection services for approximately 180 schools generally in the form of skips or paladin type containers. Approximately 20 schools do not take refuse collection services from the Council.
1.3 Some schools (51 - listed in Appendix 1) are provided with a chargeable office paper collection for recycling service system administered by Environmental Services but collected by private contractor. Charges for this service are levied annually in arrears.
1.4 27 schools have recycling containers for various materials (Appendix 1) provided at no cost to them following the successful award of a grant from the Department for Environment, Food, & Rural Affairs (DEFRA). In the main these tend to be High and Middle schools.
2.0 Proposal
2.1 Under the Recycling Plan for Schools it is intended to offer each school 4 green bins (240 litres capacity each) for collecting the same range of materials as contained in domestic green bins (paper, cardboard, metal cans, plastic bottles) but in the case of schools green bins will also take office paper and the existing office paper scheme will be progressively withdrawn. Schools not wishing to take part in the Recycling Plan will be able to retain the office paper collection scheme if they wish.
All bins will be collected by the domestic crew for the area on a fortnightly basis, with materials being delivered to the sorting facility at Vine Street.
2.2 Implementation of the Recycling Plan for Schools will be at the same pace as the Recycling Plan for Kirklees for domestic properties and it will be necessary to agree a presentation point with the school to avoid the refuse collection vehicle entering school grounds (for health & safety reasons). The scheme will be voluntary for schools (known as ‘opt in’).
2.3 As a precursor to delivering the proposed Recycling Plan for Schools it is proposed to waive the office paper recycling scheme charges to schools with effect from April 2007. The current income is £3,000 pa and the financial impact of this action can be contained by Environmental Services.
2.4 The service will not distinguish between independent schools and others, and all will be invited to participate.
2.5 Some discussion has been held with Heads by colleagues in Children and Young Peoples Services (CYPS) with, in the main, positive support for the proposals. Colleagues for CYPS are suggesting that an agenda item be placed on the forthcoming Area Head Teacher meetings to provide an opportunity for Officers and Members to discuss the proposals further with Heads. A list of meeting dates has been requested.
OFFICER ADVICE
That the Recycling Plan for Schools be implemented as suggested in Section 2 of this report, having due regard to any comments received from Head Teachers.
That the current charge to schools for participation in the office paper recycling scheme be waived for 2007/08 and henceforth.
PORTFOLIO HOLDER'S RECOMMENDATION
CONSULTEES
Children and Young People’s Services, see paragraph 2.5 above.
CONTACT OFFICER AND RELEVANT PAPERS
Name of Contact Officer & Job Title: Steve Noble, Assistant Director
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