Food waste recycling given boost

Recycling schemes to collect household food waste, and turn it into compost or even fuel, are to receive the lion's share of a £14m grant package in Wales.

Blaenau Gwent is to receive £850,000 to help set up Wales' first plastic bottle recycling plant. Rhondda Cynon Taf Council is to receive £3,137,500 towards vehicles and equipment for its food waste collection scheme, which it operates along with Merthyr Tydfil council.

£2.5m in grants over two years will be shared by Carmarthenshire and Swansea councils, for food waste recycling.

Other councils working together on similar food recycling initiatives will also receive funding ranging from £714,000 to nearly £1.7m. These are Gwynedd and Anglesey councils, Ceredigion and Powys, Blaenau Gwent and Torfaen, and Conwy, Denbighshire and Flintshire.

View Full Article 12^th October 2007

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