Whilst I would like to respond to your consultation, I fear I know too little about waste management per se. However, I would wish to make the following brief points.

• 2038 seems too long to be content with a recycling/upcycling rate of less than 50%. Efforts to adapt to Climate change and to protect wildlife will need year on year consideration. Suggest 10 years max should be the objective with annual or biannual targets set.
• I haven't read the strategy in great detail but wonder if other authorities that achieve higher rates have been looked at? Wales, for example recycles in the region of 64%, what is stopping Notts looking at a stretch target? Wales ranks around 3rd best in Europe.
• Whilst the household recycling centres provide an excellent service, I suggest that more could be done to recycle perfectly good items that are thrown away all the time. A cursory look at the bins show anything from old fashioned but serviceable furniture to garden items to slightly broken items being dumped. In Holland - a recycling centre I visited had a large warehouse attached. Here a couple of skilled employees plus volunteers repaired and laid out decent second hand/refurbished items for sale at a cheap price - similar to the work done by charity shops. Not everyone bothers to take their "decent" waste to Charity shops and this would provide a safety net for those items that are still serviceable. The sales pay for the employees (and this also provides excellent training opportunities in electrical and practical repairs).
• The quality of the recycling arrangements must match the targets. We have all seen pictures of developing nations swamped in plastic waste that has merely been "exported" under a "recycling" banner. As a user of the waste system - I would really like to know where the paper and card go, which companies sort and re-use? Where and how does the plastic become reusable? Where does the garden waste go to be composted and where does it get sold afterwards? These journeys need to be made a lot more public so that children start to connect between waste and what happens to it.
• Why aren't we recycling clean aluminium foil/containers?