Environment champions visit HHP

Environmental Champions are a group of Nottinghamshire County Council employees who have volunteered to raise awareness of environmental issues at the workplace, and change staff behaviour to improve our environmental performance.

HHP hosted the annual event for about thirty of these Champions in September. The aim of the event was to thank the Champions for a year's hard work and enthuse and inspire them to change their actions (at home and at work) to help the environment.

The day involved a tour of the Project followed by brainstorming sessions on the best and worst things about the Champions scheme, and what would they like to change. Roger Latham (Chief Executive, Nottinghamshire County Council) attended part of the day to thank the Champions. There was excellent feedback from Champions about the event saying how great it all was.

The Environmental Champions have reduced their office waste, encouraged recycling and will be looking at issues of energy use and staff travel in the near future. In the Environment Department, staff gave up their individual waste bins in exchange for communal recycling facilities. For more details of what they achieved, or how to start a similar scheme in your workplace, contact:

Environmental Champions, c/o Sustainability Team, Trent Bridge House, Fox Road, West Bridgford, Nottingham NG26BJ

tel: 0115 977 4664

e-mail: env.champs@nottscc.gov.uk