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To be released immediately: 26 June 1999

NEW FACES FOR CRN EXECUTIVE

The Community Recycling Network (CRN) Executive Committee has appointed Joe Papineschi as the new chair. Several new members are also joining the executive for the first time. The 12 members, old and new, represent the not-for-profit recycling sector throughout the UK.

In his new role as chairman Joe will be looking to raise the public and political profile of the CRN and the community recycling sector as a whole. He hopes to achieve this through improving the branding of CRN and its activities and increasing its focused lobbying of policy makers.

Joe has a great deal of experience of the community recycling sector. He was a founder of the Magpie Greenbox kerbside scheme in Brighton and he has been on the CRN Executive Committee for two years.

Four newly elected members are also being welcomed on to the Executive Committee - Jim McLaughlin of BASH in Doncaster, Lucy Danger from Manchester's EMERGE, Recycling in Ottery's Carol Johnston and Andrew Thompson from Reclaim in Sheffield.

They are joining Ian Scott from ACRE in Manchester, Andy Cunningham from Bath and Wansdyke Recycling, Steve Bentley of Resourcesaver Recycling Systems, Nick Francis, CYLCH's Mal Williams from Cardiff, Andy Bond from London's ECT Recycling and Steve Sears from Lambeth Community Recycling.

Joe Papineschi said of his appointment as chair of CRN's Executive Committee: "I am really interested in reforming the structure of the organisation to make it more effective - so that it represents the commercial interests of our members."

Other services by CRN members includes bring schemes, furniture and appliance re-use projects, community composting, scrap store activities, waste exchanges, waste education, waste minimisation projects, office and retail collections and computer recycling schemes

Notes to the Editor:

The Community Recycling Network is a national umbrella organisation representing over 250 community recycling and waste management projects throughout the UK.

CRN member organisations collectively provide recycling services to over 4.1 million people, 14,000 businesses and 2,000 schools and colleges. Members include local authority kerbside subcontractors, community composting schemes, collectors of commercial waste paper, scrapstores, furniture recyclers and waste minimisation, education and re-use projects.

The growth of the not-for-profit sector in the UK has reached explosive proportions during the last two years. The CRN's members have become major players in the waste management sector, the network currently service over 760,000 households with door to door collections, making it the largest provider of householder separated kerbside systems in the country.

The CRN's aim is to promote community recycling as a practical and effective way of tackling the UK's growing waste problem. Our members work together to promote sustainable waste management and continue to have a pioneering effect on the development of Local Agenda 21, whilst achieving some of the highest recycling rates in the UK.

For more information about the Community Recycling Network, please contact Anna Maris, Publicity Officer on 0117 942 0142. Community Recycling Network, 10-12 Picton Street, Montpelier, Bristol BS6 5QA.

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