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Improved recycling facilities for Dundee
09/06/2004
Dundee City Council is to receive multi-million pound
funding to encourage recycling.
Almost £26 million from the Executive's Strategic Waste
Fund will be allocated to the council between now and 2020
to boost recycling and reduce the waste going to
landfill.
Environment Minister Ross Finnie said:
"The Executive is committed to transforming the
country's record on waste reduction, recyling, composting
and recovery. This funding will help ensure many Dundonians
have access to recycling facilities.
"Our National Waste Plan, which we are backing with
significant resources, is beginning to show a real
difference on the ground. Every month, recycling becomes
increasingly easier for Scots with new and improved
kerbside facilities, recycling bins and other services
being provided across the country.
"By providing this substantial long-term funding we are
helping Dundee City Council meet their targets for waste
minimisation, recycling and reduction in landfill. We are
determined to provide Scots with much more sustainable ways
of managing their waste."
Details of the funding and work to be undertaken are
:
Dundee City Council have been awarded a total of
£25,945,500 from the Strategic Waste Fund for financial
years 2004/05 to 2019/20.
This award will allow the council to collect paper,
steel cans, aluminium cans, glass, plastics and green waste
by implementing the following proposals;
(a) an expanded kerbside collection service for
recyclable materials
(b) expansion of the number of bring sites for
collecting recyclable materials
(c) the upgrading of existing recycling centres at
Riverside and Baldovie with purpose built facilities based
on the recently completed Marchbanks recycling centre.
(d) a comprehensive programme of waste prevention and
minimisation
Over £230 million in a three year period from 2003 is
being invested in the Strategic Waste Fund. These funds
are being provided to local authorities to improve
recycling and composting facilities.
The National Waste Plan was published on February 24
2003 and sets out the Executive's targets for sustainable
waste management until 2020, including plans for segregated
kerbside recycling waste collection in nine out of ten
Scottish homes.
The encouragement of recyling and waste reduction is a
key element of the Executive's Environmental "Do a Little,
Change a Lot Campaign" (
www.dochange.net).
As improved local authority recyling services are rolled
out, this will be supplemented by local public awareness
campaigns.