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Dr David Bellamy OBE |
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Dr David Bellamy OBE |
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Dr Bellamy OBE believes initiatives like Reverse Vending Recycling Machines installed in shopping centre's embody his beliefs in how we can work together to save the planet. |
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The veteran green campaigner said: "Every day we hear stories we are all going to be dead by 2050 because of carbon emissions, the forests being cut down and the fishing stocks being depleted, but we have the solutions in technology and our scientists, we just need more money invested in them". |
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“We do have the green infrastructure in place in Britain to a certain degree- we just need to get more people and more money invested into it.” At 73, Dr Bellamy said he had been a recycling enthusiast for many years.
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He added:” I have been in this recycling business a long time. I bought my first bike during the war by collecting jam jars and getting the (money) deposit back on them. “It was the same with my first car a 1932 Austin 7.I paid £27,50 for it after collecting glass bottles at Silverstone which I got money for. |
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Dr Bellamy said, “I believe machines such as the Reverse Vending Machine installed in the food court of the Eastgate Shopping Centre was a prime example of how technology was the key to caring for the environment” |
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“We need consumerism, otherwise there would be no jobs for people and our economies would collapse. But I get letters from children disappointed to learn that once they have collected plastic bottles they all ended up in the same place – landfill. |
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“We can’t carry on like that as we will run out of room and, more importantly, if you let a child down like that they will not grow up to solve the problem. |
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“That is why machines like this help. They sort the rubbish and compact it and what comes out can be sold
For example in China they are taking plastic and using it to produce oil.” He added with a laugh: “ So I say hooray for Basildon to be leading the way.”
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"What we don't hear about so much is the green renaissance that is going on ." Some of Eastgate's initiatives include the first-ever reverse vending machine in a UK shopping centre, in which plastic bottles and cans are collected for recycling rather than going to landfill sites. more >> |
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Official Opening of the UK's 1st Reverse Vending Recycling Machine in a UK Shopping Centre |
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On behalf of Reverse Vending Corporation,
TV environmental guru
Dr David Bellamy OBE presented an award to
Eastgate Shopping Centre general manager Hans Wustefeld at an "official opening ceremony" of a Reverse Vending Recycling machine on Friday the 1st of December 2006 more >> "What we don't hear about so much is the green renaissance that is going on and you here in Basildon are part of that." Some of Eastgate's initiatives include the first-ever reverse vending machine in a UK shopping centre, in which plastic bottles and cans are collected for recycling rather than going to landfill sites.
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General Manager of Eastgate Shopping Centre - Mr Hans Wusterfeld |
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1st December 2006 - Mr Wustefeld said: "We have 14 million visitors a year to the Eastgate so we have a fantastic opportunity to promote the environment and what can be done to help save resources".
Mr Wustefeld said: "It is true to say we have been hyperactive as far as the environment is concerned. "But it is an issue very close to our hearts and one we have integrated fully into every aspect of the centre's management. "We feel we have a responsibility as part of the community to not only educate and inform people about this issue, but to start at home' and make a difference ourselves." |
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Ben Bradshaw MP, Minister of State ( Local Environment, Marine and Animal Welfare) |
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30th November 2006 - " I am replying as The Minister with responsibility for waste issues, David Miliband and I , wish you every success for the opening of a Reverse Vending Recycling Machine at Eastgate Shopping Centre ".
Ben Bradshaw was appointed Minister of State on 10 November 2006. He joined Defra in June 2003 as Minister for Nature Conservation and Fisheries until May 2005. From May 2005 he was Minister for Local Environment, Marine and Animal Welfare. He came to Defra from the Privy Council Office where he was appointed Parliamentary Secretary on 29 May 2002. Previously he was Parliamentary Under-Secretary at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO).
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Dr David Bellamy OBE with - Angela Smith MP Parliamentary Under Secretary of State |
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Angela Smith MP said " This Reverse Vending, in terms of the waste we produce from shopping, the Eastgate Centre is leading the way in Environmental issues in Basildon, what is good about it , is they are spreading the word, not just keeping it to themselves, I am very proud of them".
>>>More about Angela Smith Parliamentary Under Secretary of State
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