Waste Watch

Waste Watch to manage The Co-operative's education centre

11 June 2007

Waste Works, located at The Co-operative’s waste recycling centre in Manchester, will offer school children and community groups the chance to learn about recycling and see it in action.

The centre showcases The Co-operative’s commitment to ‘closing the loop’, through recycling all the waste paper from head offices and surrounding businesses, to create toilet paper and kitchen paper which is then sold in their stores.

Melanie Phillips, Community and Campaigns Adviser for The Co-operative, said: “Our new education centre is going to be packed with exciting features and activities that make sustainability relevant to school children, and bring environmental issues to life.”

Director of Waste Watch, Peter Robinson, said: “We are delighted to be working with The Co-operative, an organisation with a long-standing commitment to sustainability. Waste Works is a great opportunity for thousands of kids to see recycling in action and learn how to live more sustainably.”

Work is currently underway at the new centre, which will open in September 2007.