Lancashire's Municipal Waste Management Strategy 2008 - 2020
"Rubbish to Resources"
It is eight years since the Municipal Waste Management Strategy for Lancashire, a Greener Strategy for a Greener Future 2001-2020' was adopted. Since which time considerable resources have been put in place by the 15 Members of the Lancashire Waste Partnership (LWP) to deliver the aims of the Strategy.
After a period of extensive consultation a revised strategy Rubbish to Resources has been produced. This document represents a formal review of the entire municipal waste management strategy, with challenging new charges and actions presented which will maintain the Partnership's performance in waste management activities.
Key features include the following targets and principles;
- Reduce and stabilise waste to 0% growth each year
- Continue to provide financial support for awareness raising, education campaigns and other initiatives
- Extend the three-stream collection to all households and to extend the segregated collection service to all households to include the collection of food waste for composting.
- Recycle and compost 56% of all waste by 2015, increasing to 61% by 2020
- Recover 81% of all waste by 2015 and 88% by 2020
- Reuse, recycle and compost 70% every year at each Household Waste Recycling Centre
- Provide a network of facilities to manage and treat Lancashire County Council and Blackpool Council's municipal waste.
- Create new native woodland across Lancashire and Blackpool with 2.5M trees planted over the next 25 years
Click here to download a copy of the Lancashire Municipal Waste Management Strategy "Rubbish to Resources".
Further information to support the strategy can be found on the Information Sheets.
Please note that Acrobat PDF files require special software in order to read. This software can be downloaded free of charge from the Adobe Systems, Inc. website for a variety of platforms.
If you have accessibility issues please visit access.adobe.com
Source: Adobe Systems, Inc.
Website: www.adobe.com
Adobe, Acrobat, and the Acrobat logo are trademarks of Adobe Systems Incorporated.