Local Authorities: Recycling Debate
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Baroness Jenkin of Kennington
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Local Authorities: Recycling
Baroness Jenkin of Kennington Excerpts(7 years, 5 months ago)
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Lord Gardiner of Kimble
My Lords, I will take that point back because that is—I think I will use the word disappointing. That is not what is intended by the whole thrust of getting to a circular economy of reusing and recovering much more. That defeats the object, and there is value in a lot of the materials that we are recycling.
Baroness Jenkin of Kennington (Con)
My Lords, can my noble friend tell the House the variety of recycling rates in different local authorities?
Lord Gardiner of Kimble
My Lords, this is intriguing, because in South Oxfordshire, for example, it is 66.6% and in the London Borough of Newham, it is 14.7%. One issue that my colleague Thérèse Coffey is dealing with is that many councils in urban areas of all political persuasions are finding recycling much more of a challenge, so we need to work on that.