On Saturday 28th October, Islington Friends of the Earth, along with Islington Timebank, set out to pick up litter around the new Emirates Stadium whilst Arsenal were playing at home inside.
During the ninety minutes of the game we were able to collect 17.8 kg of glass and plastic bottles, and drinks cans. At the end of the day we delivered our collection to the recycling centre on Caledonian Road.
Our action highlighted two things:
First, the lack of recycling facilities for spectators at the Emirates stadium. All the rubbish the fans threw away would go to landfill or incineration.
Secondly, the dire need for street litter to be recycled. At the moment in Islington whilst there are plenty of litter bins there are very few places in the street for the public to deposit items for recycling. Equally whilst the street cleaners do an excellent job clearing up - at our recycling pick we found ourselves running behind them to keep up - all the stuff they sweep up gets thrown into landfill or incinerated.
Islington council is planning a zero waste strategy. For this to succeed, the Emirates stadium must be required to have recycling facilities and the council needs to ensure that there are facilities to recycle street litter.
For more on our recycling pick, click on the link below to watch a short movie filmed by Islington Friends of the Earth and Timebank member, Kirsty Burns:
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