I went along to a Community Waste Forum this evening, organised by the Council and CityClean and chaired by the University of Brighton. Waste may not be an exciting topic to many, but this was actually a really interesting couple of hours.
The purpose of the group is to allow communities more input into how we deal with waste in the city. This includes refuse, recycling and composting as well as initiatives to reduce waste in the first place.
We reviewed a list of eleven possible ideas for community projects which had come out of the previous meeting and been reviewed. CityClean is proposing moving the majority of them forward. They include amongst others a community composting proposal from residents of Beaufort Terrace which CityClean will help with in terms of trying to identify a site, and places for the compost to be used. The residents' job would be to manage the composting area and get people using it right.
Many people came along with plenty of ideas already which came out in the subsequent discussion. I like the idea of dealing with student end-of-term detritus in a constructive way. Apparently duvets often get thrown out at the end of the academic year. One suggestion was to see if there was any interest from dogs' homes for these. One person's junk may be of value somewhere else, and forums like this help to make these connections.
Tracey Hill
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