Council Recycling Support in the UK
With pressure from the EU for changes to the UK recycling procedures, and new
laws enforced into the UK from the government, it is action of local councils to put
these actions into place.
After analysing the bar chart it is obvious that recycling in households has changed
dramatically, but since 2011 a much slower increase has been displayed. It is obvious
here that legalisation is not the solution for everything, consumers becoming team
players in this repetitive cycle will allow recycling figures to heighten. It was found
that only a quarter of UK households were recycling correctly (DEFRA, 2014.)
The actions taken by local councils in the UK after the report was released, implied
that alterations would be put into place, to correct this increasing figures. Bath and
North East Somerset Council collect seventy five percent of household waste from
this area, with forty six per cent being recycled and treated. As an improvement to
the system, the council will collect any items possible, but if the service is unable to
accumulate the element a postcard will be left explaining the reasoning. Students
in this are a take up 23,600 places of residency. As a council they believe recycling
talks would help educate and improve recycling figures. Another method Bath and
North East Somerset Council work with is the ‘Love Food Hate Waste’ to reduce the
amount of food thrown away (Guardian, 2014.)
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