The BREW centre for local authorities has revealed that 40% of councils recycle materials from businesses – with over half collecting more than two types of material including paper, card, cans, glass and plastics.
” Local authorities are responding to LATS implications “
– Sue Kent, BREW centre manager
The results also reveal that 55% of councils provide a trade waste collection service, which suggest that many local authorities are turning their attention to providing recycling to their trade waste customers.
Sue Kent, BREW centre manager, said: “This piece of work has been designed to establish the number of local authorities in England that provide a trade waste collection and/or a trade waste recycling service.
“The results are really encouraging and demonstrate that local authorities are responding to LATS implications, and that there is a move towards supporting businesses to reduce, reuse and recycle their waste,” she added.
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The BREW centre – which is run by the Local Government Association, National Industrial Symbiosis Programme (NISP) and Oxfordshire county council, and funded by DEFRA's Business Resource Efficiency and Waste Programme (BREW) –will use the information to feed into the development of services to help local businesses become more profitable through waste reduction.
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Susan Juned, Local Government Liason for NISP, said: “The survey has allowed the BREW centre to establish a baseline of trade waste service provision by local authorities across England.”
She added: “The next step will be for the BREW centre to collect and disseminate experiences and examples of best practise from these authorities, in order to facilitate further service provision and engagement with local business communities around resource efficiency and waste reduction.”
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