Scots aim to be recycling 70% of rubbish by 2025

30 January 2008

The Scottish Government has proposed increasing the nation’s recycling to 70% by 2025, under plans for a ‘zero waste’ Scotland.

Environment secretary, Richard Lochhead, announced plans to increase the current 30% recycling rate to 40% in 2010, and then up to 50% by 2013, 60% by 2020, and 70% by 2025.

The proposals also include reducing municipal landfill rates to 5% by 2025, descending from 56% in 2010, 36% in 2013, and 15% in 2020. Lochhead said the ‘tough targets’ would go out to consultation as part of the development of a new national waste management plan for Scotland over the coming year.

However, he ruled out the ‘need for large, inefficient “white elephant” incinerators’, veering more towards ‘smaller, more efficient plants such as combined heat-and-power plants or district heating’. He proposed an energy-from-waste cap of 25% by 2025.

He also announced a £7.5M fund over the next three years to support community recycling projects. ‘I am determined to increase the focus on waste prevention, and am committed to the existing challenge target of stopping the growth in municipal waste by 2010,’ he said.

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