OPPOSITION councillors on Warrington Borough Council have called for efforts to push the town’s recycling rate through the 50% barrier.
Cllr Brian Axcell (pictured right) said: “When the LibDem led administration took over control at the Town Hall in 2006, Warrington’s recycling rate was a pathetic 18%.
“This was poor when compared with the achievements of other councils.
“We introduced a series of initiatives and increased the recycling rate to 44% by May this year. We urge the new Labour administration to keep up the good work of its
predecessors, so that the amount of waste going to landfill continues to decrease.”
The Government has published a recycling target of 50% for the year 2020, which isn’t much higher than our current figure, he added.
“We challenge the new administration to do much better.
“Sadly the Executive Board member responsible had no clue about what was possible or how the Council might achieve a higher target. We intend to keep the pressure on them.”
Call for higher recycling rates!
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We’re still talking about recycling percentages of total waste BY WEIGHT. That means that all the effort gets concentrated on recycling waste which is heavy, rather than waste which is polluting or made from scarce materials. So we’re recycling glass (which does not pollute and is made of sand), paper (which is made of CO2 removing trees which are planted specifically for the purpose, and decomposes easily and naturally in landfill), and garden waste (which most people could easily compost at home, saving the diesel currently being used to collect and transport it)Little or no attention is paid by the council to help anyone to REDUCE the total amout of waste generated, RE-USE things like bottles, jars and boxes, or recycle toxic wastes such as electronic devices (lots of nasty polluting chemicals in them), batteries, or even the new energy saving lighbulbs (There’s mercury in every one of them). What has this to do with protecting the environment?????