The European Commission, under its EU State Aid rules, has approved the remainder of the United Kingdom’s Waste & Resources Action Programme’s (WRAP) program to boost recycling in the United Kingdom.
The announcement will enable WRAP to increase recycling in the UK by at least an additional 1 million metric tons.
Jennie Price, WRAP’s chief executive, said, “I am delighted that the Commission has given full clearance to our proposals. This is a real breakthrough for British recycling, especially as it recognizes the true environmental value of recycling and Britain’s new vigor in seeking to rise to the challenge of landfilling less and recycling more. It is a shot in the arm for a series of WRAP initiatives to kick start investment in the plastics, glass and aggregates recycling sectors and will help to boost investment in Britain’s growing recycling industry.”
The clearance recognizes that the WRAP program is in line with the European Community’s environmental objectives and causes no undue distortion of competition. It means that major WRAP initiatives to provide capital grants to the compost, wood, plastics, glass and aggregates sectors can now go ahead.
1. WRAP is a not-for-profit company in the private sector, backed by substantial Government funding from DEFRA, DTI and the devolved administrations in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.