Waste Disposal, Reduction and Recycling Strategy

The Waste Reduction and Recycling Strategy (July 2005) has been drafted to set out how the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames intends to manage its rubbish over the next fifteen years. It will be scrutinised during the summer as part of a waste collection review and updated in the autumn to reflect this input.

The Strategy outlines plans for food waste collections borough wide, and trials for plastics and card recycling at kerbside as well as how we are going to ensure the delivery of excellent waste and recycling services across the borough.

The Strategy also covers how we will meet statutory targets for recycling and composting, and implement the policies of the West London Joint Waste Municipal Waste Management Strategy, diverting ever increasing levels of biodegradable municipal waste from landfill. (You can view or download the West London Joint Waste Municipal Waste Management Strategy by going to the West London Waste Authority website.)

The Waste Reduction and Recycling Strategy draft document focuses on waste reduction, reuse and recycling and sets out to answer three questions:

• where we are now?
• where do we want to be and when?
• how do we get there?

The document is supported by a number of Annexes (A to F) which explain the background to the Strategy, how and why the policies have been formulated and how they will be implemented.

Hard copies of these documents are available to view in the Civic Centre and at borough libraries.

You can access the links below to view or download the areas of the Waste and Recycling Strategy of interest

• Waste Reduction and Recycling Strategy summary document(pdf, 21KB)
• Waste Reduction and Recycling Strategy(pdf, 142KB)
• Annex A - Current waste and recycling services in Richmond(pdf, 263KB)
• Annex B - Legal requirements and Regional and Local policies(pdf, 171KB)
• Annex C - Waste reduction and reuse(pdf, 96KB)
• Annex D - Options for increasing recycling and composting(pdf, 171KB)
• Annex E - Action Plans(pdf, 413KB)
• Annex F - Glossary of terms and abbreviations(pdf, 54KB)