Recycling and waste plans
Ealing Council is committed to improving its waste management. The government has set strict recycling targets for local authorities - Ealing has been set the target of recycling 30% of residents' waste by April 2008.
Ealing aims to achieve this target by 2006/07 through several planned initiatives:
- changing refuse and recycling collections so they are on the same day - making it easier for residents to remember when to put all their waste out
- improved kerbside collection performance and public participation in the scheme
- the addition of plastics to the kerbside collection from 19 November 2007
- improving participation in the garden waste collection scheme and moving to weekly collections in re-usable sacks from 19 November 2007
- expansion of flats recycling
- much higher recycling performance in Ealing's re-use and recycling centres
- promoting home composting
- building local community capacity for local re-use of electrical items and furniture
- community outreach - visiting schools and local community groups as well as holding recycling roadshows across the borough
The council aims to partially achieve these by attracting outside funding and through the new 'Clean and Green' contract that began in March 2005. This contract will govern how we handle waste in the borough for the foreseeable future and is likely to have a fairly major impact on our recycling rates.
For more information about Ealing's waste plans download A Waste Collection Strategy for Ealing 2003–2 013 (word) or Ealing's Waste Minimisation Strategy (word) .The London Mayor's Municipal Waste Strategy (September 2003) is also useful to help to understand the context in which the council are working.