Metronet Delivers!

London, 4 March 2008: Metronet Rail, responsible for maintaining and upgrading two-thirds of London’s Underground, today urged Tube passengers to take their newspapers home and recycle them.

Some 6,500 tonnes of litter is cleared by Metronet each year, most of it paper waste. Only half of this can be sent for hand-sorting and recycling although Metronet, under a new initiative, has been able to separate another 21 tonnes a week for recycling with a special clean-up operation at 22 stations around the network.
Now Metronet has delivered two tonnes of the Tube’s rubbish to a public art project that from today builds a house of newspapers in order to highlight the environmental impact of yesterday’s news.