Cheltenham Integrated Recycling Project (CHIRP)
A new aluminium foil recycling service was launched in Cheltenham on 6th December 2006. The project is being run by CHIRP (the newly formed Cheltenham Integrated Recycling Project, incorporating several local day services for people with learning disabilities) and aims to provide local residents and businesses with a service that will improve the environment. The project provides meaningful voluntary work for severely disabled people who sort the foil at Oakley Adult Opportunity Centre, Whaddon. Recycling banks are situated at the nine sites around Cheltenham that currently offer plastic bottle recycling. Once collected and sorted the foil is compacted by the volunteers into 25kg bales. Avon Metals buy the foil and then recycle it through a melting process into aluminium ingots.
Income raised form the sale of the foil to is reinvested into the project which has full involvement of ALUPRO (Aluminium Packaging Recycling Organisation), and support from Vision 21 (Cheltenham) and Cheltenham Centre for Change.
CHIRP consultant – Jerry Friar, Fairtide Recycling, Fairtide Centre, Naas Lane, Lydney, GL15 5AT.
Tel: 01594 840 142 or jeremy.friar@gloucestershire.gov.uk
Gloucestershire Ambassadors
Avon Metals is a member of the Gloucestershire Ambassadors Programme organised by Gloucestershire First.
Ambassadors work support and encourage a thriving local economy. This is achieved through good networking and the provision of information but with minimum bureaucracy and no regular meetings.
The programme recognises that there are many people who are in influential positions and can promote the county as part of their everyday lives. The Ambassadors Programme seeks to harness this community interest and provide a support mechanism for it. Members are drawn from across the county and represent all businesses sectors as well as the public and voluntary/community sectors. Expatriates and opinion formers from the media and politics are also involved. Each member personally commits themselves and their company/organisation to the programme.
The main purpose of the Ambassadors Programme is to support the development and economic wellbeing of the county by:
confirming commitment and action from Gloucestershire ‘key influencers’ creating door-opening opportunities and influence wherever possible supporting partnership initiatives to create a sustainable economic environment promoting Gloucestershire throughout the UK and around the world on every possible occasion increasing media coverage and involvement of Gloucestershire worldwide
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