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Peterborough is renowned for innovative green projects – the city’s Seeding Sustainable Communities project was dubbed the blueprint for behaviour change by green experts including BBC2’s Penney Poyzer and the then Chief executive of Friends of the Earth Tony Juniper. The project saw 1,000 local people cut their carbon footprint.

45% of Peterborough’s schools are currently Eco Schools and local teachers have now laid the challenge for 100% of schools to become Eco Schools by 2010.

Peterborough’s Get a Green Grip campaign saw millions of plastic bags kept out of landfill and off the city’s streets. Shops like Sainsbury’s, Tesco and Waterstones backed the campaign and encouraged shoppers to ditch plastic bags. If everyone who received a reusable Get a Green Grip bag stopped using plastic bags this means 1,308,000 plastic bags have been prevented from damaging local wildlife and clogging up landfill in Peterborough.