Wales targets 70% recycling by 2025

Tough new waste recycling targets are being proposed from 2025 for welsh homes and businesses.

Wales' average for recycling is around 36% at the moment, with figures from the end of 2008 showing the amount of domestic waste falling from 2007. The Welsh Assembly's strategy would have at least 70% of domestic and municipal waste and 90% of building waste recycled.

The Welsh Assembly is beginning a 3 month consultation on the plan, and the proposals would promote more coordinated recycling facilities and look to boost jobs in the environmental sector.

Looking further into the future, the assembly government wants Wales to become a zero waste nation by 2050.

View Full Article 29^th April 2009

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