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Boost for recycling in West Dunbartonshire
23/06/2004
West Dunbartonshire Council is to receive
over £4 million to help meet its waste targets.
The funding from the Executive's Strategic Waste Fund
will be used up to 2006 to boost recycling and reduce the waste
going to landfill in the council area.
Environment Minister Ross Finnie said:
"Improved access to recycling facilities
is a major element of the Executive's commitment to transform
the country's record on waste reduction, recyling, composting
and recovery. This funding will help ensure many of West
Dunbartonshire's citizens 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 West Dunbartonshire 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 :
Total Award from SWF = £4,175,200
The proposed new waste management
arrangements involve expansion of the current
recycling centres and implementation of a
segregation system for both household organic and wood waste.
In addition, a brown bin green waste
collection scheme and a blue bin paper waste collection scheme
will be introduced to 36,000 households.
In addition to the introduction of
recycling schemes West Dunbartonshire Council plan to run an
initiative focusing on waste minimisation.
West Dunbartonshire Council propose to
recycle and compost 29% of municipal solid waste by 2006.
This will represent a 23% increase in recycling
performance.
The Executive has invested heavily in recycling,
composting and diversion of waste from landfill through the
Strategic Waste Fund (SWF). 28 of the 32 local authorities have now been awarded
funding totalling £137 million over this and the next 2 years
and a total of £495 million to 2020
.
The National Waste Plan was published on 24 February
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.