Hull City Council is encouraging its residents to ‘Go Green’ on Wednesday 7 May by supporting a national ‘Connect To Your Council Day’.
The day aims to remind local people that they can easily access information on green issues and an expanding range of services by using the environmentally-friendly method of logging on to the Council’s website. Residents who contact their councils via the internet rather than travelling could help save nationally over 14,000 tonnes of CO2, the equivalent of 5,362 return air flights from Heathrow to Malaga each year.
As part of Connect To Your Council Day, organised by Communities & Local Government, Hull City Council is inviting residents to check the environmental impact of their own lifestyles on the environment by following the link on its homepage - www.hullcc.gov.uk - and go to the environment section to determine their carbon footprint on the CO2 calculator. The carbon calculator will show how people, their family members and friends, fare on the eco-scale by answering a series of questions based on everyday lives.
As well as finding out how green - or not - they are, residents are being challenged to go about reducing their carbon footprint by making simple lifestyle changes, which can have a positive effect on the environment whilst actually saving them money.
For example, turning a thermostat down by one degree could reduce carbon emissions and cut fuel bills by up to 10 per cent. More care in planning grocery shopping helps cut the annual £424 of food waste of the average UK household whilst benefiting the environment by reducing methane levels. It would also lessen the harmful environmental impacts from producing, packaging and transporting food.
This week (4 - 10 May) is National Compost Week and tips on getting garden-wise and putting resources back into the earth can be found on line via the council at www.hullcc.gov.uk or check out www.compostawarenessweek.org.uk. You can order your free compost bin from the Council’s website.
Hull City Council representatives will also be at St Stephen’s Shopping Centre from 11am to 3pm from Tuesday 6th May to Friday 9th May so that the public can find out more about composting and on getting a free composting bin.
Cllr Dave Woods, portfolio holder for environmental sustainability said: “We want to encourage residents to give some thought to green issues tomorrow (May 7th).There is a wide range of information and advice on our council web site - everything from checking your carbon footprint to signing up for a free composting bin. Information about almost all council services is available online - and you can do everything from reserving a library book to searching for a new council home by logging on to the council web site.”
Hull City Council offers a range of environmental services on its website. Whether it is, cardboard recycling sites, paying for a brown garden waste bin, or reporting dog fouling, fly-tipping, and streets that need cleaned, it is all just a click away.
The ‘Connect To Your Council Day’ is part of Communities and Local Government’s Take-Up Campaign, which aims to encourage citizens to put themselves in control by accessing their local authority services online - anytime, anywhere.
Hull City Council’s ‘Do It Online’ service allows residents to log requests with its Customer Service team and then track their progress. At the touch of a button, residents can do anything from paying their council tax or applying for planning permission, to reporting anti-social behaviour or smoking in public places.
