Chelmsley Wood pupils support recycling campaign

GREEN GANG: The pupils at Coleshill Heath have recorded the YouTube
video, which is in the style of a classic "public information film".

PUPILS from Coleshill Heath Junior and Infants School have been enlisted to improve residents' understanding of the borough's recycling system.
The children recorded a video which highlighted some of the most common mistakes that people make when placing rubbish in the bins and bags they leave at the kerbside.
The clip, uploaded to YouTube earlier this month, was shot to help promote National Recycling Week.
Councillor Ken Hawkins, the cabinet member responsible for bin collections, was confident the public awareness campaign would help the council build on the year-on-year increase in recycling.
"It will mean there will be fewer instances of people not having their bins collected and hopefully less contaminated recycling, which means less costs to the taxpayer and more benefits for the environment," he said.
Last year, Solihull residents recycled more than 39,000 tonnes of waste - equivalent in weight to around 3,900 African elephants.
The council previously set itself the target of recycling 60 per cent of all rubbish by the end of the decade.