Councils in Wales have been urged to introduce more food recycling services. This was stated by the Sustainability minister Jane Davidson while launching a fifty million pound grant package. The minister said the grant would assist councils to consolidate the gains they have made in recycling.
More than half of councils have already begun or intend to start providing food waste recycling collection services in the coming year.
Meanwhile, Welsh councils have raised concerns that a sharp increase on landfill tax will cost them a whopping ten million pounds.
Ms Davidson however advised them that increasing their rate of recycling will assist the local authorities in meeting their targets and reducing the landfill tax burden. She added that food waste held great potential and exploiting that potential would be essential if they were to carry on increasing the amount of waste they recycled and diverted from landfill sites. She also said that food waste when composted could become a source of energy as well as provide nutrition when applied to the soil.
Some of the local authorities have already begun food waste collections while others are building facilities. Merthyr, Monmouthshire, Bridgend, Carmarthenshire, Swansea and Torfaen are among those that have already introduced food waste collections. Wrexham, Cardiff, Blaenau Gwent, Anglesey, Conwy and Gwynedd on the other hand are still in the planning stages.
Even though local authorities are on track to meet the goal of recycling forty per cent waste by the year 2010, the sustainability minister wants them to aim at a recycling rate of seventy per cent by the year 2025.
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