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In the first portion of the fund, English councils outside London were awarded a total of 42 million. 112 schemes were given funding, although there were over 190 applications.
The Local Authority Recycling Advisory Committee (LARAC) said that it welcomed this “long overdue” release of funds from Government to help boost progress on local authority recycling targets.
However, LARAC policy officer Andy Doran said: “The total sum of bids received [by the Department] was in excess of 150m, oversubscribed three times for the level of funding available. From this evidence alone it is clear that the potential for improving the recycling rates so keenly quoted by Michael Meacher, is being hampered by a lack of funds.”
Some of the most successful projects included the Lancashire Waste Partnership's green waste collection scheme, which received 2.4 million, Cheshire county council's kerbside collection project, which received 1.2 million and Durham county council, which received 1.7 million for civic amenity sites.
North Cornwall
A partnership between North Cornwall District Council and Caradon District Council was awarded nearly 1.7 million for a materials reclamation facility.
“This is excellent news,” said Tommy Denholm, chairman of North Cornwall District Council. “The new materials reclamation facility will mean that all the recyclables collected in North and East Cornwall can be sorted and processed locally.”
He added: “The MRF will also create more local jobs and in turn help our two councils promote the importance of recycling so that we can drastically reduce the amount of rubbish that is buried in Cornwall.”
However, some councils have not done so well. Hampshire, which has one of the largest populations in England, failed to receive any money at all.
Angela Bethell, from Hampshire County Council's Project Integra, said: “We submitted a bid of 39 million to demonstrate our commitment to achieving the government recycling targets of 40%, so we're very surprised and disappointed that we weren't awarded anything at all.”
The Government is now inviting applications for grants for the 76.3m available for 2003/04.
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