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Recycling in Inverclyde
03/08/2004
Inverclyde is to receive £11.5 million for recycling
initiatives from the Executive's Strategic Waste Fund up to
2020.
The award will enable the expansion of current schemes
and include a fortnightly Green Waste Collection Scheme and
a dry recyclate collection.
Inverclyde Council will also operate a Material
Recycling Facility in Greenock and will work in partnership
with the community waste sector.
The facility will be the centrepiece of the council's
new recycling arrangements following the introduction of
their three bin system.
Speaking during a visit to the site of the new recycling
facility, Environment Minister Ross Finnie said:
"The Scottish Executive is committed to transforming the
country's record on waste reduction, recycling, composting
and recovery. This funding will help ensure many Inverclyde
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
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 Inverclyde 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."
The funding will help deliver 33 per cent recycling and
composting in Inverclyde by 2005/06.
The Executive has invested in recycling, composting and
diversion from landfill through the Strategic Waste Fund
(SWF). Funding totalling £143 million to 2005/2006 and a
total of £529 million has been awarded to local authorities
across Scotland to assist in the delivery of recycling
projects to 2020.
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 recycling and waste reduction is a
key element of the Executive's Environmental "Do a Little,
Change a Lot Campaign" (
www.dochange.net).