Before the Tory Party Conference Eric Pickles announced a £250,000,000 gift to Council's that want to provide or retain a weekly residual waste collection. Whilst many Council's have striven to encourage the reduction in waste sent to landfill, this move goes in the opposite direction. What Council's really need is help with reducing waste, reducing landfill and developing markets for recycled materials. Locally we need investment in the development and running of processing facilities to recycle things, for instance, kitchen waste, which can make up as much 5% of residual waste. More local processing facilities could save travel times for refuse vehicles making collection more efficient. Refuse lorries use Diesel at the rate of between 3 to 5 MPG.
What I want is more recycled waste, not recycled Tory policies. Give us the money by all means, but let us use it to cut waste not dump it.
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