Brent Labour ambitiously promised to bring in plans to more than double the borough’s recycling rate from 28% to 60% in their manifesto leading to the overwhelming Labour victory at the May 2010 Council elections.
Early figures show that blue bin recycling is up from 41 tonnes per day in October last year, to 61 tonnes this year. The figures are bound to improve even further when flats join the new scheme later this year.
Brent Labour has prioritised recycling for environmental reasons, and to save money and protect other council services.
Sending recyclable materials to landfill causes huge environmental damage, contaminating land and contributing to greenhouse emissions.
As well as the environmental damage, government landfill taxes mean the Council will save millions of pounds by increasing recycling.
Cllr James Powney, Lead Member for Environment and Neighbourhoods, said:
“I’d like to thank residents for so enthusiastically embracing the new recycling scheme, and making it such a success so early on.
Labour is the only party in Brent committed to increasing recycling, and I’m very proud that we’ve gone ahead with this improved system which will make us one of the greenest borough’s in the country.”
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