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03/12/2009
Efforts To Manage Waste Recycling
Although figures show recycling rates have increased during recent years, NI still needs to do more efforts to tackle waste management.
That's according to the sixth conference that the non-for-profit company Waste & Resources Action Programme (WRAP) held in Northern Ireland, where Stormont Environment Minister Edwin Poots highlighted the promotion of waste recycling as a top priority for his Department.
In fact, he said that central and local government face the challenge of delivering rigorous EU targets and the Northern Ireland Waste Management Strategy overall.
Minister Poots said: "We cannot continue to dump our waste in large holes in the ground, without thought for the materials and energy that can be recovered from it, or for its impact on our environment."
The Minister underlined the increase of recycling rates during last years: 2008/9 the local household waste recycling rate has been around 35% meanwhile in 1999 was 4.9%.
However, the lack of local market for recovered materials, compost and products containing recycled material is the worse obstacle to increase more recycling and resource recovery.
For this reason, establishing sustained demand for these products could be an effective way to stimulate the market.
Mr Poots believed the environment and the economy do not need to be competitors but they can be partners helping people to build a stronger and more sustainable Northern Ireland.
According to him, recycling offered many business opportunities, using innovation and original ideas to working with secondary materials.
The Minister praised the good work that was already taking place within councils supported by ROTATE - WRAP's District Council advisory programme.
WRAP helps individuals, businesses and district councils in this issue to make more profit from the resources and to tackle climate change.
He considered these challenges bring the opportunity to develop closer working relationships between central and local government, due, he said to the huge impact on both the local environment and the welfare of the population.
The meeting allow stakeholders sharing points of view on the opportunities that recycling presents to the economy and society of Northern Ireland.
(CL/BMcc)
That's according to the sixth conference that the non-for-profit company Waste & Resources Action Programme (WRAP) held in Northern Ireland, where Stormont Environment Minister Edwin Poots highlighted the promotion of waste recycling as a top priority for his Department.
In fact, he said that central and local government face the challenge of delivering rigorous EU targets and the Northern Ireland Waste Management Strategy overall.
Minister Poots said: "We cannot continue to dump our waste in large holes in the ground, without thought for the materials and energy that can be recovered from it, or for its impact on our environment."
The Minister underlined the increase of recycling rates during last years: 2008/9 the local household waste recycling rate has been around 35% meanwhile in 1999 was 4.9%.
However, the lack of local market for recovered materials, compost and products containing recycled material is the worse obstacle to increase more recycling and resource recovery.
For this reason, establishing sustained demand for these products could be an effective way to stimulate the market.
Mr Poots believed the environment and the economy do not need to be competitors but they can be partners helping people to build a stronger and more sustainable Northern Ireland.
According to him, recycling offered many business opportunities, using innovation and original ideas to working with secondary materials.
The Minister praised the good work that was already taking place within councils supported by ROTATE - WRAP's District Council advisory programme.
WRAP helps individuals, businesses and district councils in this issue to make more profit from the resources and to tackle climate change.
He considered these challenges bring the opportunity to develop closer working relationships between central and local government, due, he said to the huge impact on both the local environment and the welfare of the population.
The meeting allow stakeholders sharing points of view on the opportunities that recycling presents to the economy and society of Northern Ireland.
(CL/BMcc)
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