This page is designed as a resource and information point to learn more about the effects of pollution and the ways that recycling can help our environment - please scroll down the page and click the various links for more information.

GAIA is an expanding international alliance of individuals, non-governmental organization, community-based organizations, academics and others working to end the incineration of all forms of waste and to promote sustainable waste prevention and discard management practices

Brighton Friends of the Earth have produced a helpful factsheet: 40 ways to recycle. Click here to download.

The Big Recycle: This action-packed campaign is designed to encourage us all to recycle more of our household waste.

The Freecycle Network™ is made up of many individual groups across the globe. It's a grassroots movement of people who are giving (& getting) stuff for free in their own towns. Each local group is run by a local volunteer moderator (them's good people). Membership is free. To sign up, find your community by clicking on the region on the right. It will generate an automatic e-mail which, when sent, will sign you up for your local group and send you a response with instructions on how it works. Or, go directly to the Web site for your local group by clicking on your community's link on the left. Can't find a group near you? You might want to consider starting one (click on "Start a Group" for instructions). Have fun!

Magpie Recycling Co-Op - support your locals! Visit their website here

Blooming Futures, an alternative, sustainable fuels and energy co-operative. Visit their website here

Industrial Noise - real all about it here

Local Groups fight for the environment - read a report from The Guardian here

The environment: What you can do to help. Channel4 website click here

Children living on heavily trafficked streets are more likely to develop chronic respiratory problems.
Source: Occupational and Environmental Medicine

There was a doubling of asthma cases in children under five during the 1990s. One in eight children now suffer from the condition, a total of 1.4 million (this figure has increased six-fold in the past 25 years). Eighty-one per cent of people with asthma say pollution brings on asthma symptoms.
Source: National Asthma Campaign 2004

Air pollution causes between 12,000 and 24,000 premature deaths each year.
Source: Committee on the Medical Effect of Air Pollutants

Air pollution, including particulates from traffic fumes, could be responsible for one in six cot deaths caused by Sudden Infant Death Syndrome. Air pollution could also be responsible for nearly a quarter of all respiratory disease deaths of normal birth-weight babies under one year old.
Source: Foundation for the Study of Infant Deaths, US 2004

In terms of pollution (carbon dioxide, nitrogen oxides and volatile organic compounds) from vehicles (tonnes per 1000 people), the UK is a mid to high level polluter.
Source: CfIT 2001

Eighty-four per cent of people in the UK hear traffic noise at home and 40 per cent of people are bothered, annoyed or disturbed by it. 28 per cent of people say that road traffic noise at their homes has got worse over the past five year
Source: DEFRA

The UK has the most extensive traffic congestion in Europe (in terms of the proportion of links congested) and its roads are the second most heavily used after Spain (in terms of vehicle kilometres per kilometre of road).
Source: CfIT 2001

Road traffic in England is expected to grow by 26 per cent by 2010 (on 2000 levels), 31 per cent by 2015 and 40 per cent by 2025.
Source: Department for Transport 2004

Read More - click the links below for more stories about Brighton's pollution problems (from the Argus paper) and pollution facts in general

http://www.theargus.co.uk/the_argus/archive/2004/06/03/NEWS10ZM.html