An additional 3,569,514 pounds has been given to Rhondda Cynon Taf to enhance the recycling efforts in the area. The money has been granted by the Assembly Government.
Leighton Andrews, Rhondda Labour AM warmly received the pronouncement of the intended disbursement of the money by the Welsh Assembly Government to help in the reduction of waste being sent to landfill sites as well as to raise the rates of recycling and composting.
The money is part of the grant from the Assembly Government of which the total amount intended to be disbursed to local authorities throughout Wales is fifty million pounds. The grant is part of a package put together to ensure sustainable waste management. Last year the total amount distributed was thirty five million pounds - an increase of fifteen million pounds.
Welcoming the gesture from the Assembly Government Mr Leighton Andrews commented that the grant constituted a big investment and would change the way waste in Rhondda Cynon Taf was managed and would lead to increased rates of recycling, more composting and reduced waste ending up in landfill sites.
Mr Leighton Andrews added that the grant would assist Rhondda Cynon Taf as it moved towards the goal of attaining a rate of recycling and composting of forty per cent of waste by the year 2010. He hailed the Assembly Government for urging local authorities to channel the money given into finding ways of recycling food waste.
The Labour AM revealed that a lot of advances had been made in Wales regarding improvement in the rates of recycling with the figure now standing at thirty three per cent
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