"Two new free newspapers have created 1.5 tonnes of extra waste on the
London Underground (LU), it has been claimed."

Full story from BBC News:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/5363818.stm

Mizter T wrote:
"Two new free newspapers have created 1.5 tonnes of extra waste on the
London Underground (LU), it has been claimed."

The railways and (slightly less so) the Tube are missing a trick with
newspapers, free or otherwise, in that they get picked up as rubbish.
Why not put a clearly-signed plastic newspaper rack in each vestibule
(perhaps facing the seats on the Tube so it doesn't get in the way of
standing passengers) and encourage passengers by way of notices and
announcements to leave any unused newspapers in the rack for another
person to read?

Tidier, more environmentally-friendly, good passenger service and would
cost next to nothing.

Neil

Neil Williams wrote:
Mizter T wrote:
"Two new free newspapers have created 1.5 tonnes of extra waste on
the London Underground (LU), it has been claimed."

The railways and (slightly less so) the Tube are missing a trick with
newspapers, free or otherwise, in that they get picked up as rubbish.
Why not put a clearly-signed plastic newspaper rack in each vestibule
(perhaps facing the seats on the Tube so it doesn't get in the way of
standing passengers) and encourage passengers by way of notices and
announcements to leave any unused newspapers in the rack for another
person to read?

Tidier, more environmentally-friendly, good passenger service and
would cost next to nothing.

As there are still no bins (?) on the underground they would quickly be
filled with half eaten food and other rubbish rendering them unusable. IMHO
of course.

Neil Williams ) gurgled happily, sounding much like they
were saying :

"Two new free newspapers have created 1.5 tonnes of extra waste on the
London Underground (LU), it has been claimed."

The railways and (slightly less so) the Tube are missing a trick with
newspapers, free or otherwise, in that they get picked up as rubbish.
Why not put a clearly-signed plastic newspaper rack in each vestibule
(perhaps facing the seats on the Tube so it doesn't get in the way of
standing passengers) and encourage passengers by way of notices and
announcements to leave any unused newspapers in the rack for another
person to read?

Tidier, more environmentally-friendly, good passenger service and would
cost next to nothing.

Because the free papers *want* to give more away, not less - because they
use high circulation numbers to justify their advertising fees.

In article ,
shaun wrote:
As there are still no bins (?) on the underground they would quickly be
filled with half eaten food and other rubbish rendering them unusable. IMHO
of course.

There are bins on the Underground network.

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Neil Williams wrote:
Mizter T wrote:
"Two new free newspapers have created 1.5 tonnes of extra waste on the
London Underground (LU), it has been claimed."

The railways and (slightly less so) the Tube are missing a trick with
newspapers, free or otherwise, in that they get picked up as rubbish.
Why not put a clearly-signed plastic newspaper rack in each vestibule
(perhaps facing the seats on the Tube so it doesn't get in the way of
standing passengers) and encourage passengers by way of notices and
announcements to leave any unused newspapers in the rack for another
person to read?

Tidier, more environmentally-friendly, good passenger service and would
cost next to nothing.

Neil
I am not sure that I would agree to taking up space that could be used
by a standing passenger for some stupid bin fror free newspapers. Just
make the damn things illegal. They are a waste or resources, a waste of
energy and not worth reading anyway. Why don't the green lobby come
down hard on this wasteful product.

kevin

Why don't the green lobby come
down hard on this wasteful product.

Because they are afraid of Murdoch?

Neil Williams wrote:

The railways and (slightly less so) the Tube are missing a trick with
newspapers, free or otherwise, in that they get picked up as rubbish.
Why not put a clearly-signed plastic newspaper rack in each vestibule
(perhaps facing the seats on the Tube so it doesn't get in the way of
standing passengers) and encourage passengers by way of notices and
announcements to leave any unused newspapers in the rack for another
person to read?

Tidier, more environmentally-friendly, good passenger service and would
cost next to nothing.

When they collect them now do they recycle them?

What is shocking is that certain stations have already run out of
Metros by 8am. I think it tends to be the ones that have newspaper
sellers in the station because they can't bear the competition.

That means that passengers scrounge around for them, any leftover ones
on the train, on the platforms, even in the bins (which they do have).

There is already a place to put finished-with metros - when you leave
the station just put it back into the metro stand.

Note: I once took a pile of metros with me on the way from Brent Cross
(where there are loads) to Finchley Road (which is out of them before
8am) and put them into the stand there (apart from the one I wanted for
myself) and they were gone within seconds.

alex_t wrote:
Why don't the green lobby come
down hard on this wasteful product.

Because they are afraid of Murdoch?

I don't think Murdoch makes any of the free London papers. Metro is
made by the same company that makes the Standard and Standard-Lite is
their new free evening paper. The other one I've seen floating around
is not very good.

On 21 Sep 2006 02:02:52 -0700, "Earl Purple"
wrote:


alex_t wrote:
Why don't the green lobby come
down hard on this wasteful product.

Because they are afraid of Murdoch?

I don't think Murdoch makes any of the free London papers. Metro is
made by the same company that makes the Standard and Standard-Lite is
their new free evening paper. The other one I've seen floating around
is not very good.

thesillilynamedlondonpaper is a Murdoch rag. And is, as you say, not
very good.

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