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Waste Minimisation and Recycling
Waste Management and Recycling in Stafford Borough has a dedicated team of officers.
To visit their webpages follow this link: Wate and Recycling
Why does it matter?
We all produce waste. It is an inevitable consequent of human activity. In the UK we currently produce 25.6 million tonnes of household waste annually; that's an average of over one tonne from every household each year.
Add waste from industry and commerce and we are producing 145 million tonnes of waste each year - enough waste to fill end to end dustbins stretching from Earth to the Moon.
Most of this is still sent for landfill. This is not only poor use of land, but generates its own environmental problems. That's why the Government's new waste strategy 'Away with Waste' sets out challenging policies for sustainable waste management for the period up to 2020.
These policies encourage a move away from dependence on landfill disposal and towards waste minimisation, re-use of waste materials, recycling and recovery of useful resources.
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Around 24% of waste in Stafford Borough is currently recycled, but tough new national targets set us all a serious challenge for the future.What are we doing already? |
A range of services and initiatives to help us achieve more sustainable waste management are already up and running, some of them involving innovative partnership working. A few of these are outlined below:
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The Council provides Recycling Centres at twenty eight sites in Stafford, Stone and various villages and parishes and encourages the use of the County Council's Civic Amenity Household Waste Site at St Alban's Road, Stafford. |
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Following a pilot programme, the Kerbside Recycling Scheme now serves almost all households in the Borough and has been in operation since the end of September 2000. A new 'Green Waste' collection service has undergone a pilot programme and will now be extended too. For more information on recycling contact : |
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Compost bins are available to purchase from WRAP (Waste and Resources Action Programme). They will be working on behalf of all districts in Staffordshire and offering a wide range of compost for the public to choose from. For more information or to place and order please phone either: | |
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The Council provides skips at various locations in the Borough every year in early January, to collect Christmas trees. These are taken to the Council's Riverway Nursery for shredding into mulch, which is then used on the Council's landscaped gardens throughout the Borough. However, if your tree has roots why not plant it in your garden instead! |
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The Borough Council supports and promotes sustainable waste management in all sorts of imaginative ways, for instance:
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| The household waste recycling and composting figure for England and Wales in 2001/02 was 13.6%. | |||||||||
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Currently Stafford Borough households recycle an average of approximately 11%. Challenging targets have now been set to increase these rates as follows:
That means we all need to do our bit:
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| For further details contact: |
| Dave Hadley Contract Compliance Stafford Borough Council Tel: 01785 619356 e-mail: dhadley@staffordbc.gov.uk |
| Diane Barnard Recycling Officer Stafford Borough Council Tel: 01785 619633 e-mail: dbarnard@staffordbc.gov.uk |
| Karen Davies Local Agenda 21 Co-ordinator Stafford Borough Council Tel: 01785 619408 e-mail: kdavies@staffordbc.gov.uk |