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Published: 10 May 2007

Recycle this paper

• MILLIONS of Londoners rely on their local newspaper for the latest news from a new bus route to the activities of safer neighbourhood teams. This week is Local Newspaper Week and I’d like readers to join me in recognising the important role the Camden New Journal plays in this community.
That this year’s Local Newspaper Week has an environmental theme and could not be more appropriate as climate change is not just international issue but a very local challenge for us all.
‘Going green’ doesn’t mean Londoners have to reduce their standard of living. In fact it will create significant economic opportunities.
We can all make a difference, and one of the best ways is to recycle more. Londoners produce enough rubbish to fill the Canary Wharf tower every 10 days, but we only recycle 21 per cent of that. The rest gets dumped in the ground in landfill sites or is burnt in incinerators causing even further damage to the environment.
Sixty per cent of households in Camden now have a doorstep recycling service so that three materials, including paper and mixed cans, can be taken away for recycling.
If you are not sure how their local collections work, then they can log onto the Recycle for London website, and type their postcode into the postcode locator to find further information on local collections – www.recycleforlondon
.com
We can protect the world from climate change, but we need to act now through recycling and other small changes or it will be too late.
KEN LIVINGSTONE
Mayor of London

Send your letters to: The Letters Editor, Camden New Journal, 40 Camden Road, London, NW1 9DR or email to letters@camdennewjournal.co.uk. The deadline for letters is midday Tuesday. The editor regrets that anonymous letters cannot be published, although names and addresses can be withheld. Please include a full name, postal address and telephone number. Letters may be edited for reasons of space.

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