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Cash boost for recycling projects
04/12/2002
A £6 million boost to help all local authorities expand waste recycling and composting projects was announced today.
The money is part of the funds available from the Strategic Waste Fund which was established for the implementation of the National Waste Strategy.
Making the announcement, Environment and Rural Development Minister Ross Finnie said that the money would give local authorities, who have not yet developed a long term strategy to implement Area Waste Plans, a step up. He believed the plans were crucial.
Mr Finnie said:
"We are determined to improve Scotland's record on recycling. As a nation, we are over-reliant on landfill and need to cultivate other means by which we deal with waste in cleaner, greener and safer ways.
"The distribution of the funding I am announcing today is a vital step in delivering the Executive's target of recycling and composting 25 per cent of municipal waste by 2006.
"This money will not only help councils develop recycling and composting initiatives, but create economic opportunities as new products are created from the reuse and recycling of resources that would otherwise simply be buried."
Three million pounds was distributed from the Strategic Waste Fund in March 2001 for waste recycling projects and £2.46m from the Executive's Quality of Life funding, has also been allocated by authorities to make a significant improvement to recycling and composting services.
The Executive has allocated £16 million in 2002-03 to the Strategic Waste Fund to be available for grants to assist local authorities in implementing Area Waste Plans. Over £230million is allocated to the fund over the next 3 years.
From this year's allocation, the £6 million recycling and composting grant will be distributed between all authorities using a standard population based local government revenue allocation formula.
Guidance has already been provided to local authorities to assist them in applying to the Executive for support from the Strategic Waste Fund to assist the implementation of their long term waste management plans to implement the National Waste Strategy. Several authorities have submitted bids that are now being assessed.
Today's announcement was outlined in an answer to a written parliamentary question - S1W-32238.
The amount of funding being provided to each authority is shown in the table below. The allocation is underneath each council area:
Allocation (£)
Aberdeen City
212,000
Aberdeenshire
376,000
Angus
150,000
Argyll & Bute
160,000
Clackmannanshire
50,000
Dumfries & Galloway
246,000
Dundee City
144,000
East Ayrshire
132,000
East Dunbartonshire
106,000
East Lothian
106,000
East Renfrewshire
84,000
Edinburgh City
446,000
Eilean Siar
58,000
Falkirk
146,000
Fife
374,000
Glasgow City
604,000
Highland
380,000
Inverclyde
82,000
Midlothian
86,000
Moray
116,000
North Ayrshire
152,000
North Lanarkshire
316,000
Orkney Islands
42,000
Perth & Kinross
202,000
Renfrewshire
174,000
Scottish Borders
166,000
Shetland Islands
50,000
South Ayrshire
138,000
South Lanarkshire
330,000
Stirling
118,000
West Dunbartonshire
92,000
West Lothian
162,000
TOTAL
6,000,000