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Hot (air) and bothered

Posted by Tom Bodden on September 26, 2007 11:22 AM | 

Some staff at the National Assembly are grumbling privately over the removal of paper towels from the toilets in Crickhowell House in Cardiff Bay.
Instead, all are now expected to use electric hand dryers to try to save the planet.
Labour AM Lorraine Barrett, now the 'Assembly Commissioner for the Sustainable Assembly', is championing the drive to cut 1.3m paper towels, reduce transport emissions and landfill waste.
She says in a notice in conveniences: "If we want to be exemplars in sustainability then we must be prepared to put our money where our mouths are.
"It may take a little extra time to dry our hands with the blower but what is an extra 30 seconds when time is running out for the environment?"
Wise words.


 

Comments (2)

Daniel Davies wrote...

Shortage of paper towels? Cue joke about no shortage of hot air in Cardiff Bay

Posted by: Daniel Davies  | September 26, 2007 2:47 PM

Citizen wrote...

Is this the same Commissioner Barrett who told residents of a posh high rise in the Bay that they should keep their food waste for pig swill and wait for the pig swill man to turn up just like they used to in the Rhondda of her childhood. It went down like a cold cup of sick as you can imagine.

Posted by: Citizen  | October 8, 2007 10:29 AM

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Welcome to ‘Gog in the Bay’, the occasional diary of a political journalist. My name is Tom Bodden, the Welsh Affairs Correspondent of The Daily Post, which is North Wales’ best selling newspaper. I am based full-time at the National Assembly for Wales in Cardiff Bay.

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