Wales continues to meet recycling targets
Saturday, 9 January 2010New figures released by the Welsh Assembly Government this week show that Wales recycled 41.1% of its domestic waste between July and September 2009, a 3.5 per cent increase compared with the same quarter in 2008. The total amount of municipal waste produced in Wales during the same period has decreased by 1.4 per cent, continuing a downward trend that has been observed since 2004-05.
Environment Minister Jane Davidson said:
“These statistics demonstrate that Wales is still recycling over 40% of its municipal waste and is continuing to exceed the 2009-10 recycling target of 40%. I applaud the excellent efforts of the local authorities and householders in Wales.
“Local authorities are continuing to expand their recycling and composting services which make this possible. Around 51% of households now have a food waste collection service. This is increasing, and I expect that as close to 100% of possible of households will have a separate food waste collection service by 2012/13.”