Undercover investigator Rex Green is on a mission to find out what is threatening Hertfordshire. The Black Box cinema tour, featuring the canny detective, visited St Albans city centre on Saturday (23 June).
The cinema is an initiative from Hertfordshire’s Waste Aware partnership*. How the District recycles its organic waste is the focus of the cinema campaign, using humour and detection to get its green message across.
Anyone who missed the show on Saturday has a second chance to see it on Sunday 8th July, this time outside BHS in St Albans High Street, between 10am and 4pm.
Visitors to St Albans that day can also visit the Farmers Market and watch the Freedom Parade** in the morning. You can also see the Olympic Torch*** relay come through the City from just after 4pm.
The film being shown is a 7 minute comedy shown on a loop. Viewers could win £50 of National Gardening Vouchers.
A taster of the
film can be seen on the website.
Cllr Daniel Chichester-Miles, Portfolio Holder for Environment at the St Albans City and District Council said: “This is a funny show, and all the more powerful because of that. The issue of how we deal with our waste is a serious business, and the Waste Aware partnership is using humour to get some very important messages about reducing, reusing, recycling and recovering waste across to local people”.
Councillor contact:
Cllr Daniel Chichester-Miles, Portfolio Holder for Environment
St Albans City and District Council
Tel: 01582 766479; Mobile: 07701099503
Contact for the press:
Claire Wainwright, Principal Communications and Marketing Officer
St Albans City and District Council
Tel: 01727 819572
E-mail: claire.wainwright@stalbans.gov.uk
Photo: The Black Box Cinema from Waste Aware visits St Albans
Notes for editors:
*Hertfordshire's County, District and Borough Councils work together on waste reduction and recycling schemes through the Waste Aware partnership.
***The Olympic Torch is scheduled to arrive in the District at 4.06pm on Sunday 8 July. It will travel along Hatfield Road (from the junction with Charlotte Close), then along Catherine Street, Foley Lane and Verulam Road towards the junction with Oysterfields.