Welsh Assembly Launches New Recycling Strategy

It now appears that the Welsh Assembly is hoping to tackle waste with a new recycling and composting target. When launching this report, the government said that it wanted Wales to become a zero waste society by 2050.

The area is aiming to recycle or compost 70 percent of household waste in Wales as soon as 2025. This would prevent rubbish from going to landfills and help keep landfills from continuing to grow. As part of the government’s proposal, every single home in the region will have separate food and green waste collections. Smaller bins will be provided to encourage recycling.

Jane Davidson, who is the Welsh environment minister, said that they must change their attitude toward waste. The country cannot continue to be a throwaway society, sending rubbish to landfills.

According to the government, the average family in Wales wastes around £50 a month by throwing away food. This is an amount that easily adds up over time, this goes double when people consider how much that is as a whole and not just per family.

Cutting down on the amount of waste that families throw away will have a lot of benefits. Not only will it lead to clearer environmental benefits, but it would also benefit people financially. Statistics from the Waste and Resource Action Program shows that, in the UK as a whole, individuals throw away some 8.3 million tonnes of food and drink a year. Some 5.3 million tonnes of it could have been consumed. Thus, it is easy to see how families could save money under this new strategy and save the environment at the same time.