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Paul Williamson from Deloitte »I was at the Evening Chronicle/Environment Agency sponsored Green Awards this week and I am once again inspired to help people do the right thing for their environment!
Scrapmen - I say this as someone who has yet to meet a scrapwoman - were arguably the first reusers and recyclers and I spent many hours as a child in the company of my Dad and these early green entrepreneurs. My father, Eddie Brown collected vintage farm machinery which came from the scrap yards of these cash only, down to earth folk or from farm sales where he had to bid against the scrapmen.
My father eventually owned several hundred pieces of farm bric-a-brac which had to be catalogued and sold after his death in 1986. He told many stories of dealing with a scrapman who had a gas cutting torch a few inches over a prized rural heirloom ...as my father was clearly not paying the going rate for scrap plus a premium to reload and remove the item. As a child I also remember coming across the pearly gates in a scrapyard in South Northumberland....
The 'true' story went that the owner of the scrapyard had suffered a heart attack and as such had gone to heaven and while St Peter checked the roll call to see if he was on the list, post judgement, he came back from the dead but could not resist taking the large wrought iron gates with him - these were now at the back of the scrapyard in the Northumberland; as a sunday school attending 5 year old I was left wide eyed by this story.
37 years later the societal relationship to our environment has moved on; interestingly scrap prices are at an all time high and there are many forces, economic and social, convincing people to do more for the environment.
In 2008 I intend to do more to help this green change in the north east. I want to thank the organisers of the Go Green event and encourage you to read the coverage over the next week or so. The schools in particular are leading the way.....perhaps time the wide eyed 5 year olds led and the adults paid attention to the stories thay are telling!!
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