Environmental issues have been at the forefront leading up to the United Nations summit on climate change in Copenhagen. Environmental groups, activists, and governments have been encouraging citizens to get involved by making innovative schemes that will reduce waste and increase recycling. All of this has been done to raise awareness for the Copenhagen summit, which many believe can be the catalyst to global change on carbon emissions. Although some leaders have expressed concern that the summit will merely be a lot of politicking without results, environmentally minded citizens are doing their part to put pressure on world leaders to get something done at the summit.
One such group consists of some Burnley College students who have formed a recycling firm on their campus. The team of students from Burnley College Sixth Form centre created a business which seeks to raise awareness about the importance of recycling. The firm was started by eleven A level students, who called the firm Envirofunk. Originally the firm was part of the Lancaster University’s voltage project. The main goal of the company is to shed light on Britain’s disposable culture in which people often thrown things away instead of recycling them. This has been a major problem in the western world as things like electronics, cars, and furniture have gotten so cheap as to become disposable rather than reusable.
The group will be doing a variety of thing to raise money for the cause, including buying, customizing, and reselling jewelry, as well as selling candy canes for the holiday season.
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