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COMMUNITY Movers & shakers Waste and r e c y c l i n g management firm Viridor has promoted Victor Perez-Mares as senior communications manager. Speaking about his appointment, director external affairs Dan Cooke said he was pleased to have appointed Perez-Mares to head up the firm's communications team. He added: "Working with colleagues across the business, Victor will also lead the delivery of Viridor's employee engagement and internal communications strategy, and associated plans and programmes." The Local A u t h o r i t y R e c y c l i n g and Advisory C o m m i t t e e (LARAC) has appointed Lee Marshall as its new chief executive officer. Marshall, who will also take over some duties currently carried out by the LARAC chair, will take up the position from April 1 2014 on a three-year contract with a possible two-year extension. Marshall, who also served as LARAC Community roundup Heavy fine Cory Environmental Trust in Britain (CETB) has selected Iconic Gateway Bridge in Bexley as the winner of its £100,000 10th anniversary grant. C E T B , founded in March 2003, is celebrating its 10th anniversary and decided to mark the occasion by offering a once in a lifetime grant to one, worthy project. The grant is a sum equal to £10,000 for each year they have been in operation adding the trees are auctioned off at the end of the festival to raise vital funds for Francis House – in 2012 the auction raised £25,000. Fareham-based waste management firm L&S Waste is helping a London-based youth charity by donating old discarded up to £100,000 - and Thamesmead's Bridge Project is the lucky winner. Textile recycling organisation BIU Group has continued a longstanding partnership with Francis House Children's Hospice by taking part in the charity's annual Festival of Trees, which happened last month. The Festival of Trees is a display of Christmas trees that have been decorated by well known national and local organisations in and around the Greater Manchester region. Organisations taking part include Manchester United Football Club, John Lewis and the Coronation Street cast and crew. All L&S Waste has so far provided dozens of bikes to the Streets of Growth charity, which helps engage youths and young adults in some of the most deprived wards of East London, in life skills and educational programmes. Streets of Growth run a regular bike recycling workshop each Tuesday evening for 12-19 year olds, with the aim of teaching youngsters basic mechanical skills. It also helps those with an interest in a bike-related career to obtain the relevant qualifications. The bikes are then offered to local families that desperately need a bike but perhaps cannot afford one. bicycles for a restoration recycling project. chair for four years prior to current chair Joy Blizzard, now works as interim head of environmental development and operations at Oadby and Wigston Borough Council in Leicestershire. Outgoing executive officer Colin Kirkby MBE, who took up the position in 2001, will retire from the role in May 2014. Keith Boyfield announces he is finally hanging up his gloves with the Heil Farid European Company following 20 years of outstanding loyal service. Boyfield moves on to pastures new by mutual consent having joined the founding firm in the early 1990s. and Throwing away the remains of a takeaway wrapping proved costly for a Medway woman. A member of the public contacted Medway Council to say he had seen a bag of rubbish being dumped from the passenger side of a vehicle in Albany Road in Gillingham. A registration check showed it belonged to Andrew Snook, who lives in Rochester. A fixed penalty notice response form was sent to Snook asking for details of the passenger. She was identified as Charlotte Hows. Enforcement officers visited her and she confirmed that she was the passenger and was aware of the incident. She was then issued with a fixed penalty notice. No payment was received and the case was sent to Medway Magistrates Court. Hows failed to appear in court to answer the charge of non payment of an £80 Fixed Penalty Notice for littering. In her absence Hows was fined £200 and ordered to pay costs of £278.31, plus a Victim Surcharge of £20. A spokesman for the council said Hows' actions were "thoughtless". January 2014 Local Authority Waste & Recycling 25

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