The grants were revealed by London Mayor, Ken Livingstone and aim to boost household recycling in the capital, with proposed projects ranging from education programmes to kerbside collections.
The grants come from the London Recycling Fund, a partnership made up of the Mayor, the Association of London Government and DEFRA. The 21m for the schemes was set aside by DEFRA from the 140 National Waste Minimisation and Recycling fund. The first round of funding amounted to 4.2m and was distributed in September 2002.
London currently only recycles 9% of household waste, but this has to double if the city is to meet government set standards. The Mayor said the funding partnership was the way in which London should proceed in order to boost recycling. “Partnership is the way forward for recycling in London. We want to make sure that every penny of the 21.3m given by the Government for household recycling in London is spent effectively. Working with the boroughs and encouraging new projects is the only answer.”
Recipients
In this latest round, the following grants were made:
Hackney: 310,000 for estates recycling schemes.
Lewisham: 1.1 million for borough-wide estate recycling
Islington-led north London boroughs (includes Camden and Haringey): 2.7 million for maximising recycling on estates
Kensington & Chelsea: 338,000 for increased household recycling and 16,000 for estates recycling.
Wandsworth: 1.4 million to double the tonnage from existing kerbside collections.
Corporation of London: 37,600 to provide bottle banks and door-to-door paper collections on the Barbican estate.
Tower Hamlets : 1m for community recycling on estates and 138,000 for developing community initiatives.
Hillingdon : 428,000 for kerb-side collections of compostable garden waste.
Ealing: 463,000 to transform the Greenford Road civic amenity site.
Newham: 58,100 to fund an education and promotion officer.
GLA: 413,000 for phase one of a London-wide awareness campaign.
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