Melton Members Concerned about Waste Site
May 16, 2006 9:02 AM
Some of our Lib Dem members in the Melton area are concerned about the way that an ordinary field near Sproxton village has become an official waste dump for "brown bin" rubbish.
As well as being dubious about the location of the site and the way it was set up without public consultation, they feel that garden waste should not include items that cannot easily be composted such as builders' rubbish, even if these items might eventually be removed from the tip before composting.
Local Liberal Democrats are generally concerned about waste strategies and how we deal with recycling.
At a national level, Chris Huhne says, "It is five years since Labour introduced their Waste Strategy. There has been some welcome progress, yet the total volume of waste generated each year has risen significantly. The Liberal Democrats believe that the Government should set a target of Zero Waste for all municipal rubbish in the UK by 2020. This will mean more doorstep collection of dry recyclables and reforming the landfill tax into a broader waste tax, to remove the incentives for incineration and other less sustainable waste disposal options. Meeting these targets will also mean reducing the total amount of waste we produce in the first place, focusing on reduction and redesign. Producer responsibility legislation should extend to all products and materials that are hazardous or difficult to recycle. Finally the Chancellor needs, as he failed to do in the Budget..., to come forward with proposals for fiscal incentives first to see packaging and goods redesigned in ways that make them easier to reuse and recycle; and secondly to offer the financial incentives to reuse and recycle materials."
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