Newham Community Channel

Unfortunately contrary to yesterdays report members of the boroughs recycling team will not be in the NCC studio today but will hopefully be joining us on Thursday afternoon instead.

There presence on Thursday will hopefully give us an opportunity to find out how the week has been going and what effect they feel this will have had on improving recycling performance in the borough.

Of course Newham starts from a decidedly humble position in terms of National league performance but with the reported concern of both Newhams’ elected Mayor, Sir Robin Wales and recently appointed Chief Executive, Joe Duckworth there will be pressure to see recent improvements in performance continue - I’m sure the borough team will give us a clear indication of the scale of the task at hand and how they intend to go about putting Newham positively on the national recycling map.

Of course one of the advantages of being part of the burgeoning community development that is the Didsbury Centre in East Ham is that you invariably have someone on the spot to give a bit of feedback with regard to events in the borough.

In this instance, Cliff Schafer of the Wombles, responsible for the running of the Didsbury Centre and a leading light in the third sector recycling movement in the borough was on hand at the first event at Newham Dockside, Beckton. While the week long initiative by the borough attempts to highlight the issue of recycling it will be passionate and ongoing commitment that ultimately engages residents to change their way of doing things – to this end Cliff has promised to return to the Beckton location with the Wombles to build on Mondays event at a date to be confirmed next month.

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