The Support Service, which helps local authorities trying to increase participation in kerbside recycling schemes, has about 60,000-70,000 available to provide help to councils over the next year.
The service is delivered by market-development organisation London Remade and the Association of London Government. It supports councils to develop recycling services for estates, input organics collections, carry out feasibility studies and applications for funding.
Kate Radford, improvement centre manager at London Remade, heads the Support Service team. She said: “We are really pleased with the way the service has developed over the past year. To date we have worked with over 20 boroughs and two joint Waste Disposal Authorities providing support on 32 projects.
“We are expecting that it will be in even more demand during 2005/06 helping boroughs to meet their statutory recycling targets,” she added.
With estates and flats being plentiful in London, Ms Radford explained that recycling schemes for this type of housing were likely to be one of the important areas for the coming year.
Last year the service co-ordinated ten bids for funding on behalf of councils – eight of which have been successful.
Mike Nicholls, general manager of West London Waste authority, which received advice from the service on compiling a funding bid said: “The proposal was very successful and secured the majority of the funding required. The project manager also assisted with project mobilisation and sat on a steering group of a similar project, on which the joint project was modelled.”
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