Few rejections as residents find recycling attractive

21 February 2008

Less than 2% of household items sent for recycling and collected by local councils are rejected, figures from the Local Government Association show.

Quarterly returns made to WasteDataFlow for 2006/07 reveal out of almost 13 million tonnes of items sent for recycling, just 240,403 were rejected. Waste management has become a key battleground, and local authorities are under pressure to reduce the amount of waste filling up the UK’s dwindling number of landfill sites.

Getting residents to take up recycling and segregate their waste has been a tough task for councils.

But, chairman of the Local Government Association environment board, Cllr Paul Bettison, said the figures showed the battle was being won.

‘However, there is still far more that needs to be done if the taxpayer is going to be able to avoid the landfill fines the EU and central government will impose in coming years,’ he said.

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