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Trafford MBC Trafford recyclers help grow trees in UK and abroad |
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Trafford recyclers help grow trees in UK and abroad
SENT OUT ON BEHALF OF ALUPRO
Recyclers of aluminium drinks cans and clean foil have caused a massive quarter of a million trees to be grown in the UK and Africa since 2004, thanks to a programme run by not for profit organisation, Alupro. A tree is grown for every tonne of aluminium recycled, and Trafford’s contribution has risen 10 per cent in the past year, to around 952 tonnes recycled.
Executive Councillor Jonathan Coupe said: “This is a fantastic result, and a great credit to local recyclers. Recycling aluminium is 20 times more energy and carbon efficient than making it from the raw material bauxite, and the fact that we’re also helping grow trees every time we put our drinks cans, empty aerosols and clean foil out for recycling really drives home the fact that the benefits of recycling go beyond managing our household waste efficiently.”
Alupro’s current fruit tree programme with British charity Ripple Africa in Malawi is now entering its third year, with 150,000 fruit trees already grown in 100 community nurseries in an area to the north of the country. Around two-thirds of the trees are native guava and paw paw for local consumption, with a third of trees resulting from grafting larger, juicier improved mango and orange species on to local lemon rootstock.
Once cropping begins as the trees mature, small business enterprises will be encouraged which will dry and juice the fruits - helping provide much needed income to the area.
Full details available from: www.alupro.org.uk
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