Economic opportunities in Bristol

• The Poo bus


  Britain's first bus to be powered by human and food waste will transport people between Bath and Bristol Airport. The bus runs on bio- methane gas and produced by sewage treatment works. It is eco-friendly and can travel up to 300km on one tank of gas.
• Urban greening

  • 30% of the city covered in tree
  • sites of Nature Conservation Interest to be raised to stop conservation condition by 2026
• Three strategies to reduce waste

  • Reducing amount of waste that has to be sent to landfill sites
  • Reducing amount of waste generated per household by 15%
  • Increasing amount of waste recycling by 50%
• How to reduce waste

  • do more to teach pupils in school about the importance of recycling and how to recycle at home.
  • Making technological improvements in recycling
• Positives of the metrobus

  • quiet and quicker
  • efficient
  • easy to purchase ticket in advance
• Negatives of the metrobus

  • £30million over its original £200million budget
  • originally set to run from autumn 2017 but this was pushed back due to issues in the ticketing machines and guided bus route