Congratulations to Mark Phillips who received a well-deserved Platinum Champions Award (more details).
Category: General News
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Flight operations at RAF Northolt
Please be aware that a C-17 will be conducting routine flying on Thur 10th Feb, at RAF Northolt so it will be slightly busier than normal.
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Ian K Rushforth
Station Visits & Engagement Support Officer
RAF Northolt
RAF Northolt is a Station that embraces innovation in support of safe, efficient and sustainable operations, invests in our people and acts as a positive force in our local community and with our partners.
Footway Resurfacing
Part of this year’s planned footway resurfacing programme, work starts on Azalea Walk the week commencing 11 October 2021.
Hillingdon Waste Food Collection
You may be aware, if you’ve looked in the right places, that the Council have been running “Recycling Roadshows” recently, although Eastcote doesn’t seem to have figured. I was going to provide a link to their website with the latest ones, but I now see the last one advertised is today (as I write), so I’ve missed the boat – sorry.
Thanks however to Cllr Becky Haggar, who attended one a couple of weeks ago at the Duck Pond Market and sent us some information about it.
High on the list was LBH’s recently-introduced change to the food waste recycling scheme. Food waste is now collected separately from garden waste – had you spotted the new vehicles? – and then undergoes an anaerobic digestion process to produce bio-methane gases for electricity generation.
An eye-catching fact passed on by Cllr Haggar is a reference from resource efficiency experts WRAP, that if everyone in London recycled one banana skin today, we could turn that into enough energy to charge 16,616,738 mobile phones.
Apparently, on average, food waste makes up 40% of black bag waste by weight. I’m not sure whether that’s for Hillingdon or nationwide, but the figure is far too high. All that waste is the eventual source of methane, a greenhouse gas that is many times more potent than carbon dioxide (apparently 25 times or 86 times, depending on the timeframe – that’s far too complicated for me, but you see the point) so it’s really a VERY GOOD IDEA to recycle food waste, and it’s really NOT THAT DIFFICULT.
The way the collection system works hasn’t changed, and it’s all here:
https://www.hillingdon.gov.uk/food-waste .
The textile collection system has also changed, but you’ll have to wait for that one – I’ve probably already written too much for one news item!
National Organisation of Residents Associations news
Please find attached the NORA July Newsletter, which contains a summary of the proposed National Planning Policy Framework.NORA JULY 2021
Can you help?
Are you interested in Eastcote and our local community? Do you have maybe 1-2 hours a week that you could spare to help?
If YES then please contact chair@eastcotera.co.uk to discuss how you can help.
National Organisation of Residents Associations May Newsletter
Please find attached their May newsletter: Newsletter May 2021
Updated responses to residents questions from Open Forum Dec 2020
National Organisation of Residents Associations Newsletter
The National Organisation of Residents Associations has produced their March newsletter: NORA Newsletter March 2021
NORA have also a handy guide to spotting scams that you may find useful: SCams etc