The organisation revealed to letsrecycle.com yesterday its frustration with the time being taken to establish major new recycling infrastructure in London.
” London has been asleep for the last 20 years – the materials recycling facilities at Greenwich and Grosvenor are about the only new plants we have seen.“
– Daniel Silverstone, London Remade
London Remade chief executive Daniel Silverstone said: “London has been asleep for the last 20 years – the materials recycling facilities at Greenwich and Grosvenor are about the only new plants we have seen. We will be putting forward proposals with suggestions for around 10 recycling facilities to be built.”
London Remade is already working with Australian-owned Closed Loop London to develop a 12 million reprocessing plant in Dagenham to turn recovered PET into new food-grade plastics (see letsrecycle.com).
Authority
The organisation is backing the Mayor's call for a single waste authority to take control of waste disposal for the whole of London. The Mayor wants to pull together the responsibilities currently handled by four joint waste disposal authorities and 12 unitary boroughs (see letsrecycle.com story).
London Remade, which specialises in boosting recycling by stimulating market demand for recyclable materials, is aiming to be centre stage if the new waste authority comes to fruition.
But, the organisation has warned that focussing on a single waste authority now should not deflect attention from ensuring London's recycling success in the short term.
Chief executive Daniel Silverstone said: “London Remade will want to focus on practical proposals designed to maintain positive momentum in London's waste management capacity and performance while the precise nature of new regional arrangements are hammered out.”
“Underestimated”
Mr Silverstone said he was particularly pleased that the Mayor's proposals take in all waste streams, just municipal or household waste. But he agreed with views of existing joint waste authorities that Mr Livingstone had “underestimated” the performance of the London boroughs in suggesting they were not performing on recycling.
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He said: “To say that London may soon be the worst performing area in London is misleading, it isn't taken on a like for like basis. If you compare it with other metropolitan boroughs the results would be very different.
“While London does need a change to see improved results the way the authorities have performed up to this point should still be congratulated,” he added.
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