JERICHO ECHO ARTICLE

Celebrity trash

Channel 4 feature

June 2007

For some reason, Jericho’s travails with the new recycling scheme have attracted the attention of the national media, with visits from BBC1 and the News of the World. Channel 4’s Dispatches programme also weighed in, asking people to put their two weeks-worth of non-recyclable rubbish in a yellow bin so that they could see how much there was. A bin too far for some residents. Meanwhile the Council has sent 129 warning letters to people in Jericho who are blocking the pavements all week with their wheelie-bins, bags and boxes.

This article appeared in Jericho Echo No 62, June 2007.