The Minister for Natural Resources and Food Alun Davies has announced funding for Gwynedd Council to support recycling.
The council will receive £240,000, which will be used to buy stackable recycling units on a wheeled frame, to provide households with a sturdy, easy to move recycling system. The three stackable boxes on the frame will allow households to separate their recycling, to enable the council to collect high quality, separated recycled materials. Following a trial, it will be rolled out across Gwynedd to an extra 6,000 households, thanks to this funding.
Alun Davies said:
“The Welsh Government is committed to zero waste going to landfill by 2050, which requires high quality recyclable material, which has been separated to prevent materials being contaminated. This funding is designed to support Gwynedd council’s efforts and to ensure that we continue to see improvements.
“Householders and councils are working hard to meet ambitious Welsh Government recycling targets, and I thank them for their efforts.”
This funding is part of the Welsh Government’s investment of £11.5m over three years to improve recycling across Wales through the Collaborative Change Programme. The Programme is open to all Welsh local authorities and provides specialist advice to help them to achieve recycling targets with efficient services, within their financial means.
Last year Wales reached its statutory target of recycling 52% of waste collected and the next recycling target is 58% of waste collected by local authorities in 2015/16.
