Zero waste strategy urged
Submitted on April 10, 2008
The South Norfolk Council has been urged to implement a waste management system which will completely eliminate the need for landfill space.
Tim East, Liberal Democrat member for Old Costessey, has called for the council to agree to a "zero waste" programme.
Signing up to the charter drawn up by the Zero Waste Alliance would commit the council to cutting to zero the use of landfill space and incineration by 2020.
The motion by Mr East, against the backdrop of the controlling party’s claims that important steps are being taken without the charter, follows the announcement that the area could get the UK’s first zero waste resource recovery centre.
Cllr East told the Norwich Evening News: "We now have the first resource recovery centre planned here with the whole gamut of materials recycling, sorting, all on one complete existing site, and we even have a possible site for it.
"Now we need to add the zero waste principles. It could be magnificent, what a concept. Let’s go for it."
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