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protecting your community in local government consumer advice Introduction Local government consumer advisers listen, guide, support, protect and help solve problems.  They protect individuals and businesses by providing them with legal advice on all consumer matters.  They also help identify any criminal malpractice – affecting both customers and traders – and pass on cases to trading standards [...] Related entries:

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protecting your community in local government trading standards   Introduction Local government trading standards officers work to safeguard the public – they help to protect businesses and consumers from rogue traders and illegal trading practices. Trading standards officers can be found in county, unitary and metropolitan councils. Work Environment Local government trading standards officers are office-based, but spend most of their [...] Related entries:

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protecting your community in local government waste management    Introduction Each year, the UK generates around 330 million tonnes of waste. Local government waste management officers oversee its safe disposal. Waste management officers are employed in all types of local councils.   Work Environment   Local government waste management officers are usually office-based, but some outside work is required to visit waste sites and to [...] Related entries:

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Introduction Did you know that the average family throws out around five tonnes of waste every year? Waste management and refuse collection services collect, bury, burn or recycle it. And that is not counting commercial waste from shops, restaurants, factories and so on. Local authorities may run their own refuse collection/waste management service or they may contract [...] Related entries:

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Introduction Recycling officers play a part in saving the environment – they plan and develop environmental action plans and carry out schemes for recycling waste materials such as glass, paper and cans. All councils have someone responsible for recycling policies, working for either environmental services or cleansing departments. Sometimes the work is combined with areas such [...] Related entries:

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Introduction What you do with your old bottles, cardboard and newspapers matters enormously! It is becoming increasingly important to use our natural resources wisely and treat the environment with respect, or put the planet at risk from burnout through pollution and over exploitation. Recycling waste is one way in which we can safeguard our future and it is [...] Related entries:

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Introduction Trading standards staff can make a big difference to people’s lives and they get great satisfaction from successfully exposing rogue traders. Justice is done. The consumer is protected. But their impact is not always punitive. They provide the community with advice and support, too – often preventing trouble before it occurs. Senior trading standards officers cover the same [...] Related entries:

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Introduction Street markets range from the rural stall with food, flowers, home made jams and cakes to the bigger urban affair where you can buy almost anything, from pots and pans to computers as well as a motley of other more perishable products: the famous Petticoat Lane type market in London, for example. People like markets because [...] Related entries:

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Introduction Look around you. Do you like what you see? Are the new buildings you see in towns as good as those that were put up many years ago? Should old buildings be preserved? What about public gardens and monuments? Do you notice them? Do you agree with the poet John Keats that ‘a thing of [...] Related entries:

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Introduction People need to travel and move around – to work, to school, to the shops, on holiday.  Transport planners in local government play an important role in ensuring that there is an integrated transport system.  They plan, design, deliver and maintain our transport infrastructure and make sure that it supports the economic, social and environmental [...] Related entries:

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