Ballymena residents urged to recycle old Yellow Pages - 30 November 2001
Residents across the Ballymena borough are being urged to participate in a Yellow Pages recycling campaign, which starts when the new edition of the directory, sporting fluffy chicks on the front cover, is delivered across the area. With recycling becoming more important and more prominent as an environmental issue, this is an excellent opportunity for everyone to get involved in recycling.The ecos Centre and Ballymena Borough Council have teamed up with The Directory Recycling Scheme, sponsored by Yellow Pages, to run Ballymena’s schools recycling programme. Primary schools will act as collection points for old Yellow Pages, which show fish on the front cover. Parents, relatives and neighbours are encouraged to take advantage of the recycling scheme and help their local school collect as many old Yellow Pages as possible. Yellow Pages are offering two prizes: £250 for the school which collects the most directories, and £250 for the school collecting the most directories relative to pupil numbers.
The Directory Recycling Scheme has also awarded Ballymena Borough Council a grant to help collect and transport the old Yellow Pages from the schools to a local recycling company and to enable the co-ordination of recycling workshops at the ecos Centre. The workshops, conducted by a local artist, will re-use a number of the Yellow Pages to make a special ‘green’ display of all the plants and animals in the ecos park. Five pupils and a teacher from each of the participating primary schools will attend the morning sessions, which will run continuously for four weeks early next year.
For households in the Ballymena borough who do not have a child participating in the schools competition, there is an alternative option to recycle old Yellow Pages. They can be recycled at the paper bank at the Waveney Road amenity site.
Adam Billiald, co-ordinator of The Directory Recycling Scheme, said: "Supporting local authorities to recycle directories is a major environmental strategy for Yellow Pages. Our research shows that people in Northern Ireland are amongst the most active recyclers in the UK. I expect this campaign to prove that once more."
