Safehands Green Start nursery, based at Blackpool Football Club,describes itself as an eco nursery. It is also part of the Eco Schoolsscheme.
Manager Kate Myers said, 'The person I spoke to said they would pass myconcerns on, but because the nursery was a commercial premises and notresidential, the council would not collect our recycling.'
Ms Myers added that residents in Blackpool are told by the council thatthey will be fined for not recycling. 'Residents are given threedifferent bins - one for paper, one for plastic and one for generalrubbish.'
The nursery wanted to put three smaller versions in each of its roomswith a picture to encourage the children to empty waste into the properbins.
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