Oral Answers to Questions — Environment, Food and Rural Affairs – in the House of Commons at 10:30 am on 15 December 2005.
Jim Cunningham
PPS (Mr Mike O'Brien, Solicitor General), Law Officers' Department
10:30,
15 December 2005
What plans her Department has for increasing the range of materials collected for, and improving the efficiency of, recycling.
Ben Bradshaw
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs) (Local Environment, Marine and Animal Welfare)
We provide significant help to local authorities' recycling through the Waste and Resources Action Programme. In addition, the Household Waste Recycling Act 2003 requires waste collection authorities to provide kerbside collection of at least two recyclable materials by 2010.
Jim Cunningham
PPS (Mr Mike O'Brien, Solicitor General), Law Officers' Department
How is my hon. Friend assisting local authorities to dispose of certain items, especially electrical items such as refrigerators? There are many dumps around the country, but there does not seem to be any movement towards getting rid of them.
Ben Bradshaw
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs) (Local Environment, Marine and Animal Welfare)
Significant grants are available through the programmes to which I referred in my answer to help local authorities both develop facilities for recycling and receiving such electrical waste and provide a collection service. Some charge a small fee. That is better than people being tempted either to fly-tip or to use rogue operators to fly-tip, for which they are now liable to significant fines under the Clean Neighbourhoods and Environment Act 2005.
