Hemel Hempstead Liberal Democrats

Bright Green Plastics Recycling at Castleford

Mixed News About Recycling - UK needs to Improve the Quality of Recycled Materials.

While everyone is in favour of a greater proportion of plastic being recycled, not everyone is aware of the cost and complexity of the processes needed to achieve this. Dirty and/or mixed waste plastic has hardly any value at all and is fit only for the waste stream feed into an Energy from Waste Unit which will cost you about £90 a tonne (you pay them). At least this is cheaper than £113.15 a tonne at a landfill site (includes the Landfill Tax). On the other hand if you had clean, baled mixed bottles strapped on a pallet you might be paid £70 a tonne - and if you had clear, light blue PET bottles you might get as much as £240 a tonne.

26 Jul 2020

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A Good Year for Soft Fruit - as long as the Birds don't Find Out!

Growing soft fruit is not easy. The plants need sunshine to grow and ripen - making sugars to provide sweetness needs lots of energy in the form of sunlight. On the other hand they need lots of water, i.e. lots of rain, so all in all that's a bit of a contradiction.

24 Jul 2020

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Vivarail Class 230 for Wrexham to Bidston Borders Line

Further Progress for Vivarail as their First Battery Hybrid Passenger Train Delivered to Wrexham

This Monday, 20th July, 2020, the first trainset in an order of 5 battery hybrid passenger trains was delivered to rail and bus operator Trafnidiaeth Cymru in Wrexham to run on their Borders Line service between Wrexham in North Wales and Bidston on the Wirrall. At Bidston an easy change to Merseyrail makes for a fast and frequent service to Birkenhead and Liverpool.

23 Jul 2020

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Fibre Broadband Arrives - after 37 years!

Yes, folks, when I stood for Parliament for the Hemel Hempstead constituency for the SDP/Liberal Alliance in 1983 rolling out fibre broadband across the country was one of our flagship policies. Shirley Williams espoused it as her personal crusade and got a detailed three-page article in the Economist, a business affairs weekly established in London in1843. The Financial Times was similarly enthusiastic.

19 Jul 2020

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Tring Friday Charter Market - still going strong after 705 Years!

Despite the hard times of the covid-19 pandemic, Tring's Friday Charter Market, first established under a Royal Charter from Edward II in 1315, has kept going.

19 Jul 2020

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"Trust us, we're Tories" - Dacorum Borough Council Tories tell DBC Lib Dems

Every Principal Council should set up structures to ensure the actions and decisions of the Council Executive and the policies of the Council itself are able to be scrutinised by councillors and by members of the public.

16 Jul 2020

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