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01/06/2004
Belfast to meet EU waste target says council
Belfast will meet EU recycling targets for 2005, the city council said today.
Belfast City Council launched its second annual Waste Week through its ‘Reduce Reuse and Recycle’ scheme which aims to target the amount waste dumped in landfill sites.
Martin Doherty, Waste Manager with Belfast City Council, said: “The European Commission has set us the target of recycling 25 per cent of our household waste products by the year 2005.
“The Council is determined to meet this target, and already has taken huge strides forward in the past year. Our ‘blue bin’ scheme is being rolled out across the City, and we recently opened three new state-of-the-art household recycling centres, with a fourth to be developed."
The Council is employing the latest computer technology to monitor the ‘blue bin’ scheme and the recycling rates for all parts of the city, to see who is playing their part and who is not.
The technology – the only system of its type in the British Isles and among the most sophisticated currently in use anywhere in Europe – even allows the Council to analyze the recycling rates of individual streets.
Waste Week begins today on the first anniversary of the introduction of the Council’s ‘blue bin’ scheme.
(MB)
Belfast City Council launched its second annual Waste Week through its ‘Reduce Reuse and Recycle’ scheme which aims to target the amount waste dumped in landfill sites.
Martin Doherty, Waste Manager with Belfast City Council, said: “The European Commission has set us the target of recycling 25 per cent of our household waste products by the year 2005.
“The Council is determined to meet this target, and already has taken huge strides forward in the past year. Our ‘blue bin’ scheme is being rolled out across the City, and we recently opened three new state-of-the-art household recycling centres, with a fourth to be developed."
The Council is employing the latest computer technology to monitor the ‘blue bin’ scheme and the recycling rates for all parts of the city, to see who is playing their part and who is not.
The technology – the only system of its type in the British Isles and among the most sophisticated currently in use anywhere in Europe – even allows the Council to analyze the recycling rates of individual streets.
Waste Week begins today on the first anniversary of the introduction of the Council’s ‘blue bin’ scheme.
(MB)
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