Environment
The Green Legacy lives on....
The Year of the Environment may be over, but Liverpool’s ‘green dream’ lives on. City reports on an exciting three year project,
‘Greening the City’, which will get thousands of local people involved in improving their environment.
Liverpool continues to develop plans to place local people at the heart of creating a cleaner, greener city.
Liverpool City Council is also leading – and joining a range of other green projects throughout 2010 – including:
- Signing up to the Clinton Climate initiative, which aims to create and advance solutions to the core issues driving climate change.
- Pledging to reduce 10 per cent of the city’s carbon footprint in 2010 by signing up to the national 10:10 project
- Delivering the Carbon Trust’s Local Authority Carbon Management programme, to deliver key energy and carbon saving initiatives
- Recycling the city’s street sweepings and litter bin waste
- Increasing the number of recycling pods on the city’s streets
- Introducing a food waste collection scheme
- Developing plans to introduce a ‘Carbon Card’, a reward scheme for environmentally friendly businesses and residents.
For more on the city’s green future, visit www.liverpool.gov.uk/environment
