ALL
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Trash Times
Watch your waste!
Issue 7
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Superstar
Tubby!
The labrador
that’s a whole
lot more!
Recycling
Superheroes
The mission
begins!
Also:
 Phonebook competition
 Record recycling
 New refuse vehicles
 Your pictures
Your new-look
Trash Times
After listening to you we have given your Trash
Times a brand new look.
Pupils who visited our depot in New Inn said they
wanted to see part of the comic strip on the front
page. As you can see we have granted this wish. They
also wanted more space for fan mail and pictures.
See the back page for some more great work.
We hope you like the new look but if you want to see
anything else let us know.
Write to: Ben Payne,
Torfaen Council, Panteg Way,
New Inn, NP4 0LS
or email: [email protected]
Has Dan Can met his match? Find out on the back page!
Recycle old phonebooks for ca
Pupils have been recycling old
phonebooks for a chance to
win cash prizes.
Schools in the county borough
signed up to take part in the
Torfaen Council-run scheme.
The competition is now closed.
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Dan Can says:
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Schools that collected the highest
number of old phonebooks per pup
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will be awarded a share of £600 in
cash
prizes.
Pupils have been using the director
ies to
make Dan Can-theme sculptures befo
re
handing them over for recycling.
The best designs will win cash prizes.
The competition replaces the annual
Yellow Woods Challenge, organised
by Yellow
Pages, which is not running this yea
r.
Details of the winners will appear in
the
next edition.
Recycling dog becomes local superstar
A luxury dog bed, £200 voucher for
dog food and body warmer are just
some of the gifts a recycling canine
has received since winning praise from
Torfaen Council.
Tubby the Labrador has been inundated
with gifts, messages of praise and
pats on the head since news of his
remarkable recycling feat broke.
His owner Sandra Gilmore said that in
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Tubby's lifetime he has collected more
than 26,000 bottles.
Earlier last year, Dan Can honoured
the Labrador at his home in West
Pontnewydd by presenting him with a
bone.
Since then, praise has been heaped on
the six-year-old with countless stories
appearing on television and websites
and in newspapers and magazines
now?
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as 50% o
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He has also been showered with gifts
and never goes unnoticed on his walks.
“Tubby has become a local superstar,”
said Sandra. “Every time we go out
people recognise him and want to pat
him – especially if he’s got a bottle in
his mouth.”
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CHA NTE L DAN IELS
LIVES Pontypool - a little market town
slap bang in the middle of Torfaen
INTERESTS Biodiversity, conservation
and sustainable living– recently took a
degree in environmental management
CA LLU M LEW IS
STRENGTHS Proactive - likes to fix
things before they get bad
Superheroes on the side
of refuse vehicles
WEAKNESSES Procrastination - puts
things off to save the world
Recycling superheroes now appear on
the side of refuse lorries in Torfaen.
Dan Can the Super Recycler, his sidekick
Billy Bottle and Queen Green appear on the
sides of two Torfaen Council vehicles along
with a simple message urging residents to
support the Twin Bin and black box recycling
schemes.
Callum launched the new look vehicles with
Dan Can.
Callum said: “The new designs are really fun
and colourful and will help encourage people
to recycle as much as they can.”
Dan Can also appears on the back of the
Council’s recycling vehicles along with simple
instructions about what items residents can
recycle in their black box.
You can recycle newspapers and
magazines, glass bottles and jars,
tins, cans and aerosols, plastic
bottles and textiles in your black
boxes.
Around 38,000 homes are now
on the Council’s Twin Bin Scheme
where recycling is collected weekly.
Household rubbish and kitchen
and garden waste are collected on
alternate weeks.
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LIVES Blaenavon
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north of Torfaen ful
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LIKES Recycling
to be a
n Can
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recycle and
who don’t
DISLIKES People
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throw rubbish on
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Athletic - loves
and motocross
football, kickboxing
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metropo
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speeding ES Age - not as
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and ends up in landfill will
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Prizes for Dan Can
fan mail
Dan says: “A big thank you to
pupils from Llanyrafon Primary
School in Cwmbran who sent
in some great pictures of
superheroes.
“From now on I will be a sending a
signed photograph to anyone who
sends in a letter or picture.
Connie the Composter
by
Geri McNamara, 10
Tommy Tre
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Niamh Crom ro by
ie, 10
“The best ones will also receive a
voucher and a bag of
recycling goodies.
“I look forward
to hearing
from you.”
You can send in
letters and pictures by
writing to: Dan Can the
Super Recycler, Torfaen
Council, Panteg Way,
New Inn, NP4 0LS.
DAN
CAN
Carl the Composter by
Joseph Wait, 10
ONE DAY DAN CAN RECEIVED AN
EMERGENCY CALL FROM TORFAEN
COUNCIL SAYING BLAENAVON WAS
COVERED IN A MYSTERIOUS
WHITE POWDER...
Cyril the Ce
real Box by
Amy Courtn
ey, 10
DAN FLEW OUT TO INVESTIGATE. AFTER HE
LANDED THE PARTICLES JOINED TOGETHER TO
FORM EVIL POLLY STEYRENE...
OH NO!
MMM POWDER
YOU SAY?
the
super
recycler
POLLY STEYRENE THEN TRANSFORMED
HERSELF INTO A HAMMER AND
ATTACKED DAN
I’LL GET YOU –
IT’S HAMMERTIME!
HA! THAT’S
NAILED HIM!
HA, HA, HA, HA
EVIL LAUGH
BUT DAN PULLED AN EXPANDABLE CARDBOARD BOX
FROM HIS UTILITY BELT AND TRAPPED THE EVIL VILLAIN
INSIDE. TO PREVENT HER FROM ESCAPING, DAN THEN
FILLED THE BOX WITH FRAGILE GOODS...
THIS MONTH DAN CAN
WANTS YOU TO...
GET BACK TO DOING SOMETHING
YOU’RE GOOD AT POLLY STEYRENE
ARGHHH I’LL GET
YOU NEXT TIME
WILL POLLY STEYRENE ESCAPE
FROM HER CARDBOARD JAIL?
MORE NEXT TIME!