The London Waste and Recycling Board and the Waste & Resources Action Programme (WRAP) have announced that they will be launching a joint recycling support programme for London waste authorities in April.
Resource London is a jointly-funded support programme that aims to help London waste authorities boost recycling (and move towards the Mayor of London’s 50 per cent recycling target by 2020) move while saving money. In 2015/16 Resource London will have a budget of £2.25 million comprising a £1.5 million commitment from LWARB and £750,000 from WRAP.
Running between April 2015 and March 2020, Resource London will provide a ‘unified approach’ to recycling and waste reduction, offering ‘specific, targeted and tailored’ regional and local support.
The work of the partnership will focus on:
- improving the performance of existing food waste collections and introducing new collections where appropriate;
- improving the yield of dry recycling from flats;
- increasing the quality of dry recycling to ‘maximise income and service performance’; and
- minimising the amount of waste produced by households within London (including a tailored Love Food Hate Waste campaign for London) and maximising reuse.
Speaking earlier today, Councillorr Clyde Loakes, Deputy Leader of the London Borough of Waltham Forest and Chair of the new Resource London Partnership Board, said: “The London Waste and Recycling Board is delighted to be unveiling Resource London in partnership with WRAP. This is a very exciting opportunity to bring more support to London boroughs at a time when we’re striving to deliver excellence in our services against the back drop of austerity.”
Marcus Gover, Director at WRAP, added: “London faces its own very particular challenges in reducing waste and meeting recycling targets, but we know that by really focussing our action on areas such as food waste collections and dry recyclables we can make a genuine impact”
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