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NEW! I’m dreaming of a green Christmas 05/12/07
With the Christmas season almost upon us, it is important to keep recycling at the front of people’s minds at this busy, and often wasteful, time of year. It may be one of the last things people think of as they are ripping open their presents, or enjoying lots of food and drink with family and friends, but there are many ways you can easily do your bit for the environment this coming festive season.
NEW! Young recycling champion 05/12/07
Rebecca Dickinson, aged 10 from Leeds, is a true young recycling champion. She believes we can all ‘DOB’ – do our bit – to recycle more and has launched her own website to help educate her local community on the importance of recycling. She has even starred on BBC radio!
NEW! Christmas carnage 05/12/07
We are always looking for new ways to update and improve the SCRiB website and the latest edition to the site is a great new game called Can Carnage. The object of the game, which can be found in the ‘Kidz Zone’ area of www.scrib.org, is to melt as many steel cans as fast as possible by zapping them to fill up your melted steel collector to make recycled steel products.
NEW! Corus goes back to College 05/12/07
Corus Steel Packaging Recycling, who sponsors SCRiB, recently went back to college to help students understand more about recycling and sustainability issues. Nicola Bennett, Communications Manager, was invited to give a series of lectures at Coleg Sir Gar in Llanelli, which is just two miles from Corus’ Trostre site in South Wales.
SCRIB: One Year On 15/06/07
How time flies when you're having fun! The revamped SCRIB website is celebrating its first anniversary in June. The website has proved to be hugely popular with teachers, pupils, parents and other members of the public alike. In the last 12 months, tens of thousands of visitors have logged onto the site, we've received hundreds of requests for our 'Kids in Charge' DVD and we've answered lots of questions on all aspects of steel packaging recycling.
Recycle Now Week: Putting steel packaging in the spotlight 15/06/07
As one of the main sponsors of Recycle Now Week (2nd - 9th June), Corus organised two media stunts to raise awareness of the importance of recycling steel packaging, demonstrating just how versatile and strong steel is as a packaging material.
Click here to find out more about recycled steel bikinis and record breaking feats of strength!
Hitting targets two years early 15/06/07
You may be aware that the UK is set annual recycling targets to ensure that less packaging material ends up in landfill sites. There was good reason to celebrate recently when new figures revealed that the UK's steel packaging recycling rate had beaten the 2008 target of 54% set by the UK Government two years early.
Click here to find out what this means for the future of steel packaging recycling.
