Greater Manchester in the United Kingdom is set to receive a record £100 million (around US$188 million) to help boost recycling and halt growth in waste production. The UK’s Environment Agency notes that the money may be the largest waste disposal contract award in Europe.
The money will be used to upgrade Manchester’s waste management services. The Greater Manchester area produces 1.5 million metric tons of solid waste a year. In 2002/2003 Greater Manchester recycled and composted 10 percent of its waste.
The project is expected to boost recycling and composting to over 50 percent by 2020 and divert 32,660,000 metric tons of municipal waste away from landfill sites.
Funding will help the city to meet key national waste targets: recycling targets to compost or recycle 25 percent of household waste by 2005/06 and to reduce the amount of biodegradable waste - such as kitchen and garden waste – that is disposed to landfill. By 2010, biodegradable waste going to landfill must be 75% of the amount produced in 1995, reducing to 50 percent by 2013 and 35 percent by 2020.
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