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Funding for recycling in Renfrewshire
18/06/2004
Renfrewshire Council is to receive over £28 million of funding to help meet its waste targets.
The money from the Executive's Strategic Waste Fund will be used up to 2020 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 Renfrewshire'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 Renfrewshire 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 = £28,428.00
The proposed new waste management arrangements involve expansion of the current kerbside box collection service, for paper, card, plastics, glass and cans to 42,000 households in detached/semi detached properties.
The Council also propose to expand the fortnightly brown bin scheme to an additional 24,000 households.
In addition, the Council intend to collect recyclate from tenemental properties and flatted developments by providing communal bins. It is anticipated that the communal schemes will recover 3300 tonnes of paper and card per year.
This award will also allow Renfrewshire Council to implement an education and awareness campaign which will include the 'Waste Aware' brand image. This is designed to maximise participation rates.
Renfrewshire propose to recycle and compost 29% of municipal solid waste by 2005/06.
The Executive has invested heavily in recycling, composting and diversion of waste from landfill through the Strategic Waste Fund (SWF). 27 of the 32 local authorities have now been awarded funding totalling £133 million over this and the next 2 years and a total of £491 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.