A 1.2 million fund to improve recycling for Londoners was launched today (September 4) by the London Waste and Recycling Board (LWARB).
The funding will be offered to London boroughs and joint waste disposal committees to shape collection infrastructure, increase recycling in the capital, expand existing services and provide household recycling.
The successful schemes, to be rolled out by March 2015, will focus on improving or expanding:
- Recycling collections at the kerbside and in blocks of flats.
- Food and garden waste collections at kerbside and in flats.
- Recycling services provided at Household Waste and Recycling Centres.
- Bulky waste re-use or recycling collections.
Funding will be allocated on a competitive basis with an application deadline of November 4 this year. LWARB, which aims to have committed all of the fund by March 2014, expects to fund no more than 10 projects costing a maximum of 200,000.
The body will evaluate the projects on the basis of value for money, project performance monitoring, partnership monitoring, communication, and the ability to deliver authority savings by cutting disposal costs.
‘The fund will allow boroughs to either roll out new or to improve existing schemes as well as looking at new ways to make recycling as easy as possible for Londoners.’
Councillor Clyde Loakes, LWARB efficiencies committee chair
Councillor Clyde Loakes, LWARB efficiencies committee chair said: I am thrilled that the Board is investing in helping London look at ways to improve household recycling.
The fund will allow boroughs to either roll out new or to improve existing schemes as well as looking at new ways to make recycling as easy as possible for Londoners.
The LWARB is chaired by Richard Tracey and works in conjunction with the Mayor of London and London councils with a remit to develop waste management in the capital.
The new fund follows the end of the bodys Recycle for London (RfL) in March, a communications campaign with the aims of reducing waste and increasing reuse and recycling.
However, a report presented to the LWARB in May found that more than 1 million allocated to the campaign had been left unspent after the three year programme came to an end (see letsrecycle.com story).
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The underspend was originally to be allocated to support the London Reuse Network, but it had not been spent due to capacity challenges and times scales within it (see letsrecycle.com story). The Borough Services Support programme and the 4.6 million Efficiencies Programme were among those considered for reallocation of the money.
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