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Hi Veena, Firstly, your project sounds great, was that James Lovelock narrating the video? In terms of getting quantities of waste paper, you can directly contact the free newspaper companies and see if they'll give you their overruns, although they sell this to recycling plants so may not want to give up their cash flow, all i can say is give them a call because they may be more than happy to help, i am not able to speak for them. Alternatively you could contact the Aylseford paper recycling plant and see if there is any paper spare that they have not been able to recycle and see if they'll donate it. Otherwise, you may have to resort to the old go on the tubes and do a collection. How much paper do you need?

James Mummery, 20 April 2009 23:17

No worries James - good luck with your exams, hope it goes well. I'll be in touch for future events. All the best. Michelle :)

Michelle , 14 April 2009 11:04

Hey James!Really happy to hear that you enjoyed the experience. It was great to have you helping and advising the young campaigners and we would love to invite you back again! We have a programme day on the 5th May and if you have the availability it would be great to have you on the programme. Thanks and all the best!! :)

Michelle, 08 April 2009 16:03

Hi Michelle, Thanks for having me to be honest. I Love any opportunity to help other young people reach their goals and start up projects. The young people that i got to work with were a really impressive group of people and their ideas were so fantastic. It just shows that if given a chance to express themselves, young people have very defined and caring opinions on many social issues. Please stay in contact, I would relish the chance to work with more young people.

James Mummery, 08 April 2009 01:29

Hi James, Its Alex from the STOP campaign, I love the idea of the website where people can actually get involved and make recycling fun. I just keep thinking "how can we make it more of an incentive to encourage people to recycle?" like i remember in america you can gain money back from the amount of recycled cans they collect and bring back, - How could we possibly bring that scheme over to england ? - could it be a system that is linked up to tube lines and you get a free ticket per 100 newspapers you recycle (I'm just thinking out loud here) or could we link it up to big businesses that are doing alot to recycle and get discounts in various stores as a result of recycling its always easier to change attitudes by giving people little treats for doing the right thing to begin with hope my midnight ramblings help Thanks for coming down to the Start Think and Stop event

Alexander Rose, 28 March 2009 00:36

*To Leo* Thanks Leo, well i feel i can answer a few more questions: 1) Tube Lines and Metronet do recycle at the terminal points (at least I am certain of the former, haven't investigated Metronet yet) so this is really good. In the case of Tube Lines they then collect the money from selling recycling to go into a CSR fund that they give to charities and volunteering staff. A really good policy, amazing in fact, in my opinion. The key for FNCTE is to pursue network rail and the mainline train stations to put recycle bins on their overground pplatforms whilst also support the trails of on-platform recycling bins on some tube platforms at current. 2)In terms of those recycling ads you mentioned, although they may have limited impact, to engage the public with the message of recycling, a series of complimentary strategies are required. The new initiative we have agreed with thelondonpaper is a step on that path and we hope to enagge the public over the course of the next few months with more and more reasons why you should recycle your free newspaper. Ranging from fun and incentivised messages, to hard hitting factual campaigns. Thanks for the offer of help, i will be in contact very soon. Also, I am organising the Age of Stupid volunteering for the 13th March to collect the energy sources for the premier tent so if you are around that day then come along. Hope you're good, James

James Mummery, 04 March 2009 09:01

heyyy james ye was lovely to meet up the other week going back there again this weds to meet with chris arnold and creative orchestra again :) the one i have at the moment is from starbucks i bought it around christmas time because was sick of my other one which kept leaking so its got a christmassy outside! it looks just like a normal flask, its quite tall and slim and has a clip lid which doesnt leak at all. it also stays cold on the outside even when the drink is boiling unlike some others which actually get quite hot! hope that helps aimeexx

aimee nathan, 03 March 2009 00:11