19-27 November: Enjoy the Pinkham Way Alliance music events - because it's also the "European Week for Waste Reduction"!

(Click above for details - in Scotland!)

And the

NORTH LONDON WASTE AUTHORITY

is celebrating in style!

For details of the exciting NLWA events, click on Chair Clyde Loakes's tea-cup below (Councillor Loakes is the one on the right).

European Week for Waste Reduction 2011
"Love Food Hate Waste!
Come along to one of the NLWA's free interactive information stalls
to find out how to lunch for free!"
(this separate picture is from the NLWA's 'Watch Your Waste Week' 2009)

Oh Dear! Did you not find:

"Lunch for free with Love Food Hate Waste. Come along to one of our free interactive information stalls this month, to find out how to lunch for free! Advisors from the NLWA and the north London b..."

http://www.nlwa.gov.uk/waste_&_resources/get_involved/european_week_for_waste_reduction_2011 

Perhaps the NLWA doesn't want us to "get involved" after all!

Anyway, we only do it for the children, don't we?

So let's try for another 'European Week for Waste Reduction 2011' web page (although admittedly the web address is not as explicit as last time): 

"Celebrate the European Week for Waste Reduction 2011 with Great Taste Less Waste Shows! To celebrate the European Week for Waste Reduction from 19-27 November 2011, we are working with Circ..."

http://www.nlwa.gov.uk/waste_&_resources/information_for_schools/waste_prevention

No luck again?

---

Actually, the situation is not QUITE as bad as it seems. There ARE some events after all:

This is the timetable of 'Love Food Hate Waste' sessions:

Date	Time	Venue	Borough
Monday 21 November	10:00-13:00	Morrisons, Holloway 10 Hertslet Road Holloway , N7 6PL	Islington
Monday 21 November	14:00-17:00	Morrisons, Wood Green High Road, Wood Green, N22 6DR	Haringey
Wednesday 23 November	11:30-14:30	Enfield Civic Centre Silver Street, EN1 3XY	Enfield
Thursday 24 November	10:00-13:00	Waitrose, Whetstone 1305 High Road, Whetstone, N20 9HX	Barnet
Thursday 24 November	14:00-17:00	Hackney Service Centre 1 Hillman Street, E8 1DY	Hackney
Friday 25 November	10:00-13:00	Morrisons, Camden Chalk Farm Road, NW1 8AA	Camden
Friday 25 November	14:00-17:00	Sainsbury's, Low Hall 11 Walthamstow Avenue, E4 8ST	Waltham Forest

This table is on a real, actual 'European Week for Waste Reduction' web page, on the NLWA web site - but we leave you to find it. You certainly cannot search for it, and it's not under "News"!


The NLWA has already set up a separate, attractive NLWA 'Love Food Hate Waste' web site, which contains a similar table, for events last summer. The web page that links to it has this text:

Love Food Hate Waste is a national campaign aimed at raising awareness of the need to reduce food waste. The campaign shows that by doing some easy, practical everyday things in the home we can all waste less food, which will benefit our purses and the environment too.

This summer, we attended community events to meet local people and spread the Love Food Hate Waste message even further. Food waste experts from the NLWA and its constituent boroughs were on hand to offer advice on portion control, storage, date labels and smart shopping.

We also exchanged some fantastic tips and rescue recipes with north London residents. We hope you enjoyed the events and picked up some new information to help you save money and food. There will be more Love Food Hate Waste activities during the European Week for Waste Reduction, November 2011. So watch this space! [We are still watching.]

http://www.nlwa.gov.uk/yourwaste/get_involved/love_food_hate_waste_2011


So, overall, there is evidence of planned school initiatives that are not happening, and a special web site that has not been updated and mobilised for newer events.

Try emailing post@nlwa.gov.uk and asking the NLWA what happened to all their planned 'European Week of Waste Reduction 2011' events and publicity.

A fuller series of events on waste reduction, clearly planned at some stage, would marginally have reduced the need for an incinerator-fuel plant at Pinkham Wood, or anywhere else.
So it's a NLWA budget cut!

UPDATE: It's a bit better now.

---

Link to HOME (see all posts).