Peterborough Environment City Trust...

I’m your guest blogger for this month you lucky, lucky things! For those of you who don’t know me, I’m Nyree Ambarchian, Marketing Officer for Peterborough Environment City Trust (PECT for short).

I couldn't resist doing an April Fool post yesterday, I promise I'll be more serious from now on.

PECT is the environmental charity in Peterborough working to make Peterborough a sustainable city – a cleaner, greener, healthier, happier place…the UK’s Environment Capital.

PECT was set up over fifteen years ago when Peterborough was made one of the four UK Environment Cities (along with Leicester, Leeds and Middlesbrough). We deliver a range of projects from helping businesses go green to working with local schools to set up outdoor classrooms and environmental education.

Did you know?
The Green Wheel network of cycle ways provides 45 miles of continuous sustainable routes around the city.

Did you know?
The Get a Green Grip campaign aimed to encourage shoppers to ditch plastic bags and use reusable shopping bags instead. In total 6,000 reusable, natural cotton bags were given out and the campaign removed an estimated 5million plastic bags from circulation.

Did you know?
Eastex is the materials exchange scheme for the East of England. The scheme works with local businesses and has diverted over 4,500 tonnes of goods from landfill, saved over 7,700 tonnes of carbon, and saved local organisations £750,000 on waste disposal and procurement costs.

To find out more visit www.pect.org.uk