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WFP Fabrications Encourage Businesses To ‘Whack-A-Bin To Save A Life

Ilkeston based WFP Fabrications is supporting a new national campaign called Whack-A-Bin, being championed by national publication, Skip Hire Magazine, in a bid to save lives throughout Derbyshire.

The campaign encourages waste disposal workers to ‘whack’ the bins and skips before taking them away, to make sure that homeless people are not taking shelter insider, after a man was tragically killed in a waste disposal accident in Nottingham last year.

Matthew Holmes, managing director of WFP Fabrications said: “Last year, the waste removal industry, were shocked by the news that a man’s body had been found in a bin lorry back in April 2014, on Lyndhurst Road in Sneinton. Since then, WFP Fabrications has tried to highlight the need for education into these sorts of incidents, and believe that the process starts with the manufacturer.

WFP Fabrications has always created clasps on their skips for locks to be fitted at the owners discretion, but thanks to the Whack-A-Bin Campaign, they have created special ‘Whack-A-Bin’ Campaign stickers for their skip products, to warn people of the inherent dangers.

“We have always told clients of ours about the dangers of not checking the skips before they are taken away, but since reading about the Whack-A-Bin Campaign in Skip Hire Magazine, we decided that adding brand new Whack-A-Bin Campaign stickers to our skips, along with our existing ‘Do Not Enter’ stickers, was the next step in the awareness process.”

WFP Fabrications spoke to a local homeless charity called YMCA Derbyshire about the campaign to raise awareness among the homeless community in Derbyshire.

Kerrie Mossis, from YMCA Derbyshire said: “YMCA Derbyshire specialise in youth homelessness. As opposed to sleeping rough on the streets or in particular, inside waste bins and skips, our clientele tend to sofa surf and move between hostels.

“Despite this difference, the ‘Whack A Bin’ campaign has a really important aim that YMCA Derbyshire can relate to – to raise awareness of this isolated and vulnerable way of living and the repercussions which may arise as a result. We hope people really get behind the campaign, to stop tragedies like this happening in future.”

For more information, please visit www.wfpfabrications.co.uk

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