Boris promises to introduce US-style recycling credits

02 April 2008
 
Londoners will be paid to recycle, if Boris Johnson is elected as the capital’s mayor, the Tory candidate announced in his environment manifesto this week.

Johnson also pledged to invest £6M in improving the cleanliness and safety of London’s open spaces, and invest in 10,000 street trees in the local neighbourhoods that need them most. He advocated a US-style recycling initiative, in which residents put all their recyclable waste in a bin, which is weighed when collected.

The amount of waste recycled is then recorded and credited to the household’s account. Such a scheme in the US has led to a 200%-plus increase in the amount of waste recycled per household.

Other key pledges include promoting hybrid buses, making London a ‘genuinely’ cycle-friendly city, and cutting London’s carbon emissions by 60% from their 1990 levels by 2025, through promoting greater energy efficiency and cutting congestion. ‘I will take action to make London the greenest city in the world,’ Johnson said.

‘Increasing recycling may appear to be a small gesture but will actually improve the lives of thousands of Londoners. I want to work with London boroughs to make that a reality.’ Johnson has also pledged to allow motorbikes in bus lanes, while incumbent mayor, Ken Livingstone, has ruled out changing the law.

Livingstone’s decision followed a TfL report he said ‘shows only a very small safety benefit for motorcyclists against a large disbenefit for other vulnerable road-users’. But Johnson claimed it would ‘reduce congestion and cut pollution’.

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