Recycled commitment
July 2nd, 2008
posted by Cptn
Devon has a super record on recycling, it’s one of the top local authorities in the country, donchaknow, so it would have been nice if South West MEP Graham Watson had mentioned that in his press release about the agreement between MEPs and Europe’s environment Ministers to set a target of recycling 50% of household waste by 2020, and 70% for industrial and commercial waste.
In fact, “The percentage of rubbish recycled in the Devon County Council area is now 50.5%, according to the latest figures for April to September. That is an increase from 45.6% last year, and well above the national average of 30.9%,” according the a Devon CC press release from December 21, 2007.
“The best recycling areas in Devon are Teignbridge with 60.4% (55.34% not including Devon County Council’s recycling centres), South Hams 59.04% (57.06% without DCC’s recycling centres) and Mid Devon 53.35% (49.69% without DCC’s recycling centres).”
There’s always more to do, but a bit of recognition of the hard work and the growing commitment to recycling would be good.
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1. PRSD | July 8th, 2008 at 7:21 pm
Graham Watson got in touch. And this is what he said:
You are entirely correct that both the Lib Dem run Devon County Council and people of South Devon have embraced recycling, and are already recycling over 50% over their waste. This is a success that we should all rightly be proud of.
As an MEP for the South West constituency which covers Cornwall, Devon, Dorset, Somerset, Gloucestershire, Wiltshire and Gibraltar, my aim is to encourage all of the regions councils to similarly embrace such targets so that the region does not disappear under a mass of unnecessary waste.
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