27/02/2017 Inside Out North West

Hello and welcome to Inside Out North West with me, Diane. Tonight,

we investigate the confusion surrounding recycling in the region

and ask why, despite strict rules, recycling rates have gone down.

There are hundreds of different recycling schemes across virtually

every local authority in the country. A mixture of bags, a

variety of colours. We reveal why the newest team in rugby league, the

most northern of sports, is based in Canada. It will take not only rugby

league to another level but also change the way world sport is done

on a professional level. And we report on the progress of a secret

dig which hopes to uncover evidence of a remarkable 4000 -year-old

Bronze Age site. I would be very surprised if we don't find some

remains. How many bins do you have and how

often are they emptied? The answer varies enormously depending on where

you live. Tonight, we look at the big disparity and confusion in

recycling services in the and investigate why we are now recycling

less, not more. reveal that despite all these bins,

only one third of local authorities in the north-west have seen

an increase in their rates The rates have either

dropped or stayed the same. In Liverpool they are

so proud of their purple miniature versions of them

in the city's souvenir shops and in Blackpool you can get a special

seagull sack to protect your waste The way you live doesn't only

determine the size and What you can put in them

and how often they are emptied varies from

council to council. Everybody collects the basics,

glass, paper and card, although some councils charge extra

to take away all your Not every council will

deal with food waste. If you eat yoghurts, you cannot

recycle the pots unless you live in Cheshire East or West,

Warrington, Wigan, South Lakeland, Government targets set

out by the EU say that we have to recycle 50%

of our waste by 2020. But in figures obtained

by Inside Out only seven out of 35 local authorities met this

target by last April. Cheshire West and Chester

did the best, recycling Joint worst were Liverpool

and Hyndburn councils, who Why are we getting worse

at recycling household waste? Well, I think we've got a very

confusing system in this country. There are hundreds of different

recycling schemes across virtually every local authority in the

country, a mixture of boxes and bins It's very difficult to have a

national conversation about what we can recycle and what should be

recycled when everyone is doing Because different authorities

accept different things and you wind up putting different

things in different bins. Absolutely, so some areas

will accept some types of Some areas need paper

and card separated in some places accept paper

and card together. Some places will accept cans

and bottles and some separated. It is no wonder that

when I try and talk to people and explain why recycling

is important I find a state Well let's talk about food,

because people don't like dealing with the stuff that they

found in the bottom of the fridge, Some people with -- really struggle

with that, don't they? We waste somewhere around 7 million

tonnes of food every year and that is from our household,

plate scrapings, vegetable peelings, salads that have gone

off, the two for one offers from supermarkets

we eat one and don't get round to eating the other,

so we throw perfectly good food away.

Also what we can do is collect at food

and put it through a process where we can create green energy.

We can create gas and put that back into

the National Grid so it actually has a use when we actually collect food

Some authorities introduced smaller slim bins to encourage us to

recycle more, but for people like Jim it just means

Jim, you've arrived at the tip with your bags of rubbish.

Why is this not in your bins at home?

Well, the bin at home has been replaced

with a much smaller bin and with a family of six it's

actually quite difficult for us to get all the

Well I've got a big family and they are very rubbish

Is this confusing? Is this why some people are not on board as well

because it is a bit complex, isn't it? Yes, exactly. I do not know. If

I cannot see recycling, like you say, it goes into one of these bags.

How do you feel about having to come and do this? It is very annoying. I

think it is great, I do not mind recycling. I have a chemistry degree

and no wall about it. I want to make sure I look after the planet. But I

also have a life. So this is the rubbish you've

collected this week and we're not going to recycle it,

we're just chucking it? But Greater Manchester

waste authorities say the smaller bins were wheeled

in to encourage us to recycle. People look at that then

and actually realise that they can't fit everything in it

so then they are more likely to put their bottles in their

plastics in the recycling. The paper goes on the recycling

and the tins because they haven't got the capacity

in the smaller bin. Can you explain why in some

authorities recycle I think we are consuming a bit more

now, so some of that can't be recycled and I think there can be

confusion as to what can be recycled Unfortunately England doesn't

have a waste policy, so we need to come up with a clear

defined system of what we should be doing and generating

the markets for those We've got different types

of plastics and some This materials recovery Centre

in Charleston takes in the dry So this is the starting point

of our recycling journey? It comes into the main hall,

up the conveyor belt and here They are looking for anything that

basically should not be put on the recycling bins,

so large items, plastic bags like you can see they're pulling

out, wires, things like that are really going to cause

problems to our machinery, so they I've seen a Christmas tree,

I've seen a nappy, huge turnip, None of these things should be

in here, should they? There are a certain number of people

who are just confused and there is a number who

don't want to bother. Maybe they don't see

that there is any consequence wrong, but there is consequences,

consequences financially for them because of the end of

the day their councillors Where you live determines

which plastics you can recycle. At this plant, lower grade

plastics are rejected. are of a much lower grade of plastic

and a much more difficult to The amount we have in

Greater Manchester, we can't get those reprocessed, so we only take

plastic bottles here. Keep Britain Tidy believes

it is time the government stepped in What we are really

interested in is the fact that the government takes ?1 billion

a year every year in landfill tax, which is aiming to drive waste

away from landfill and But of course we've

just been talking about the fact that our recycling

isn't working very well. We'd like to see some of that

?1 billion collected every year itself recycled back

to local authorities so they can provide better education and we can

provide the standard services across So this should be

Government-led? a standardised recycling system,

and education pack that everyone can read and understand,

no matter which part There is only one organisation that

can do that at a national level We wanted to put these points

to the minister responsible for recycling but our repeated

request for an However in a statement,

a DEFRA spokesman said... "There are some excellent examples

of councils improving "recycling rates and we are working

with local authorities and industry But recycling isn't just

about meeting targets. It is about the future of the planet

and we all have to take some So check your council's

website for what you You can find out more

about how your local authority is performing

by looking on our website. It is probably the most northern

sport, founded here, played here and part of the fabric of the region.

While rugby league is a way of life in towns like Wigan, Warrington and

Saint Helens, it is often criticised for failing to expand into new

markets. That is all about to change because the newest team in the

league is based in Canada. The move could become a blueprint for sport

across the globe. Stuart reports. Linking east and west

through countryside and cones. But while the M62 is

a crucial component one sport it has proved to be

a corridor of constraint. Rugby league was born

and bred here, but has 11 of the top division's

12 teams are within a dozen miles of the M62,

despite many attempts to expand They are based at Maidstone in Kent.

rugby super league team... The rugby super league team... The

biggest change in rugby league in 100 years took place in Paris this

evening with a first game in the new European super league. First time

Wales had a club in this competition.

What about here? Well come to Toronto. -- welcome to Toronto.

Toronto isn't just Canada's most populated city.

The 3 million inhabitants make it the fourth

largest in the whole of North America.

It is more sportingly associated with ice hockey and

baseball, but Toronto is now a rugby league towns well.

Rugby league's newest team is Toronto Wolfpack.

I was living in Birmingham. And flipping through the television. I

landed on a super league match. I was blown away by the action of it.

What is this?! As I was watching I realised it was the most Canadian

sport that had never been to Canada. I left Birmingham, came home and I

started. A big boot by Priestley. Eric spent six years realising his

dream. First he founded the Canadian national side, drawing a crowd of

8000. There is a record sponsorship deal and a wealthy backer on board,

the Toronto -based Australian mining boss, David Argyle. Season ticket

sales have already hit a promising 4000. The season-ticket numbers

would put you right in the middle of our Super League, never mind league

one. Having been out there to discuss with the civic dignitaries

the backers behind the concept how much appetite there is in a sport

mad city like Toronto, they are clear there is a niche willingness

to play and they have got an appropriate facility. This is the

Lamport Stadium, the Wolfpack home turf. The artificial pitch is

covered in the harsh Canadian winter. It is currently minus eight

degrees. Because of the weather they will not play home games here until

May. Meanwhile the team is taking shape on the other side of the

Atlantic, under the former Great Britain boss Brian Abel and former

head coach at centurions mob Paul Rowley. Unique, interesting,

challenging. Everything, really. I guess the logistics have been one of

the most difficult. First and foremost finding a place for

training and buying equipment and everything. We started from scratch.

Take control with your head, boys. Getting the team on a budget has

the first conversations to recruit the first conversations to recruit

the first group of players, approaching a player and saying

there is a new team in Toronto, come and play for me. That is not easy to

sell. They have created some players from open trials across North

America. But the majority are from the English game. Gary Wheeler is a

former player with Warrington and Saint Helens. It has been around for

100 years. I wanted to start from scratch. Everybody is new here. They

have all bought into this bit of a dream. And I think everybody is

excited and looking forward to it. To soften the effect of

transatlantic travel and cost, the team will play blocks of games home

and away. That means more than one month in Canada at a time. Hardly

ideal for family men like Gary. Especially when there is a summer

baby on the way. I wanted to do what is best for him. He has put all his

life into us. He puts every minute of his day basically when he is not

training into his family and, just do something else for yourself for a

change, do something that makes you happy. It is an excuse for a holiday

in Toronto, really! The Wolfpack must fund travel and accommodation

for visiting teams. Teams like Barrow Raiders. They make the

seven-hour trip in May. I think it is good for the game. It gives you

that element of travel and experience. I know a lot of our

supporters are excited about it, and they are working at it as a holiday.

They will go over for the week and spent time there and go and watch a

fantastic game of rugby. Teams will fantastic game of rugby. Teams will

fly to Canada on Thursday, play on Saturday and return on Sunday.

Despite travel costs coming out of Toronto's pocket, Barrow estimates

it will cost around ?1500. In addition work commitments for the

part-time players means not all of them can make the trip. The logistic

side is a bit of a nightmare. Especially travelling and then

playing a game. Potentially they will lose money over the travel.

There is nothing the club can do about it. We have to go there and

play the game. It may be that people take weaker squad because players

cannot get the time off work. It is an unfortunate position where these

guys will probably lose out. If you want to take the temperature

of Toronto sport, this is the place to come, game day at the hottest

ticket in this town and also the most famous ice hockey team in North

America. Have you heard of a rugby league team called Toronto Woolpack?

No, no I have not. I have. I have actually had a couple people ask

about how to get tickets it. It is fun to see a new sport. I have seen

rugby on TV, so it is interesting. According to followers of Toronto

sports scene, this might be a captured market rather than a

captive one. I think it is going to be very difficult for the Wolfpack

to become part of the mainstream, especially right away. They are not

going to play at a point where there is no other Toronto sports team

playing. They will come out through their season against Meikle -- Maple

Leafs, raptors, in terms of play-offs, and beginning of the

season, so it is going to be difficult for the Wolfpack, for

sure. Despite challenges, it is not a short-term plan. Everybody

involved is targeting the top level sooner rather than later. They are

progressing well and if they bring more to the table why would you not

want the widest geographical footprint? It is a saturated market

down the M62 corridor. We have got the best sport in the world but

have a -- set aside five years to have a -- set aside five years to

achieve Super League but all the lads are trying to do it in two.

This second Canadian team in Montr al will be formed soon. Rugby

football league have confirmed to Inside Out that they are in talks

with other countries about similar ventures. The transatlantic part of

the league makes it exotic and that is what gets people watching. We

think it is a pioneering project wilt Paik -- which will take not

only Rugby league to another level and stratosphere but change the way

world sport is done on a professional level. A sport long

criticised for failed expansion could now be the blueprint used by

others across the globe. Historians have long believed the

north-west was fairly insignificant as a region in terms of the Bronze

Age. But after a chance discovery they are thinking again. For the

last year one man has been following the progress of a secret dig which

has uncovered a remarkable piece of 4000 year-old evidence.

There have always been gaps in the knowledge for

archaeologists when it comes to the Bronze Age.

At this secret location, hands digging in the earth, hoping to

uncover a 4,000-year-old of prehistory.

Volunteers from all over the world are hear.

All because a man with a metal detector made an

Matthew Hepworth was out with a pal doing what he has

been doing for 20 years when he heard the tell-tale clicks.

But this time they were pointing him to

I had been on it a few times before and had the fortune

of digging up a late Bronze Age chisel in complete condition.

This is the chisel, along with a knife from the

These discoveries caused a bit of a stir in the

This allows us archaeologists to go back

in and open up the exact find spot where he recovered

and see what kind of other archaeology that is associated with.

What we have here is a potential early

Bronze Age burial mound that we are going to be excavating

over the next two weeks and it is in a prime place

to be the burial of some people who are potentially very

I joined the team on day one to see how a dig

It turns out you need the most modern technology to

This is a GPS kit and what this is reading is

17 satellites above, all the mobile base stations

and this is giving us a pinpoint accuracy to the

millimetre where we would set up our trenches.

The high-tech technicalities complete, it was time

for some good old-fashioned spadework.

I will be very surprised if we don't find human remains.

We have removed all of the topsoil and grass and we are now coming down

onto the first layer, the first Bronze Age layer. That shows we have

a quite large and substantial kind of stones that would have sat on top

of this bronze Age burial site. Now we have exposed this much bigger

area and gone back really carefully we can see discrete features. This

rock crystal was really significant for these types of burial mounds. It

was a sort of precious stone for them.

How far have you travelled to come on the dig?

Anna, tell me where you have travelled from.

I'm a staff nurse, I work at the local hospital.

So this is a great dream and chance for me to be able

I can tell this is human bone because of how it is fragmented and

the different shapes it is fragmented into. Animal bone

fragments in different ways. What can you find out when you send it

for analysis? I will analyse it. Basically we tend to look at how

much of it varies. That can tell you whether it is a whole person or if

it is just little pieces collected and deposited. We are at the top and

side of the monuments now. It is much more likely we are going to get

the cremation inserted subsequently into the side of the monument. If we

are going to get an actual burial it is more likely to be towards the

centre of the monument. It could potentially be in its own small

stone chamber. By the end of the two weeks that is exactly what happened.

The team found what appeared to be a cremation pot, painstakingly taken

clear of the soil and then the delicate operation of removing it

from the ground. Pretty solid. I think we would be

better picking it with that. Two months later it is in a laboratory

in Preston undergoing a micro excavation. We will treat it like it

is a small site into itself. We will excavate it like a site and separate

it out. We do not really know anything from that time, to be

honest. In that context whatever we find is important.

This team have almost finished the micro excavation. It has been an

exciting afternoon. They have uncovered a lot of bones. They think

it is a bone nest and they have had their work cut out putting it into

sample bags, where they will be sent away for analysis. I did not expect

that much. The pieces are really good. A lot of end of bones,

jawbones, vertebra, we can get a lot of good information from that. And

there is an object in there. That is the icing on the cake. The fact that

it is a scraper puts it on the cusp of the early Bronze Age. That is

fantastic. This is probably the best preserved cremation burial from the

Bronze Age that I have seen from this area. What is next? I will be

going through all the bones, weighing up everything, measuring

everything and looking at how much there is from each part of the body

and see how many individuals there are. I will look for pathology and

hopefully we will move on to some important data and things after

that. And a few weeks ago I met up with Stewart and found out if the

preliminary examinations had revealed any more secrets. It

appears to be one individual. Originally I thought it might be two

or three from the sheer volume of the bones. It appears to be a young

adult, probably male, relatively healthy. It should be possible to

tell where he was born, where he grew up. Remarkably, around the same

time as the dig another hall was discovered just seven miles away,

providing more evidence that Lancashire was a significant region

for Bronze Age man. These areas are not constructed in isolation. I

would expect that there is actually a number of prehistoric areas,

probably a complex. This hoard is extremely significant in itself. It

found in Lancashire for the Bronze found in Lancashire for the Bronze

Age and so far. The early Bronze Age were the earnest from is still a

very poorly understood period. -- the urn is from. This could shine a

light not only in northern Britain, but also with a worldview across the

scene interisland, and into the Bronze Age in Britain in general.

It really does pay to have a metal detector. That is all from us for

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