Recycling
The question
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many local authorities are meeting their responsibility to collect household and food waste separately under Simpler Recycling.
Answered by Mary Creagh
We are encouraged by recent data provided by our partners Waste & Resources Action Programme (WRAP) to see that most councils in England (excluding those granted transitional arrangements for food waste collections) are either already compliant with Simpler Recycling or in the process of rolling out services within this financial year and are communicating these changes clearly with their residents. We appreciate that some councils are facing delays due to challenges out of their control, such as supply chains, and we are working closely with the sector to address these wherever possible.
We have consulted and engaged extensively with local authorities throughout the development of this policy. This has included focused working groups, sector events and holding monthly stakeholder forums. We meet monthly with local authority waste network chairs to partner on delivery of these reforms. We are aware of some specific delivery challenges faced by some local authorities to meet these new obligations and are working with local authority waste networks and the wider industry to provide additional support where we can. We will continue to monitor progress and work with the sector to deliver these reforms.
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