Memorandum submitted by Mr Jim Elliot
(CRED 32)
For 12 years I have co-ordinated the voluntarily
staffed scrapstore Mini-Scrapbox, charity number 1050261.
For the last five we have run Community RePaint
Norfolk and processed over 40,00 litres of domestic paint which
otherwise would have gone to landfill. Some 28,000 litres have
been redistributed.
What a waste and what a climate change effect
it would have been if all that had gone straight to landfill.
It has saved Norfolk County Council thousands
of pounds.
Our funding is ceasing and our patience has
run out. Governments and councils cannot expect volunteers to
carry out their climate protection and waste minimisation duties
once the value of schemes like ours is established.
There are 62/3 other RePaint schemes nationally
all doing sound environmental and social work.
Houses, schools, churches you name it they have
had new extended life put in them by a lick of re-usable paint.
I want your inquiry to find out why Government
is reluctant to acknowledge the worth of schemes like Community
RePaint and put funding into them.
Nationally paint re-used by schemes is over
150,000 litres and growing and what is true waste is disposed
of under hazardous waste licensing procedures and can be recycled
(along with paint steel tins) at an Avonmouth processor.
Mr Jim Elliot
January 2007
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