2. Scope of the New Nottinghamshire and Nottingham draft Waste Local Plan

The Parish Council discussed this at their last meeting – they have no particular comments to make, other than the Nottinghamshire County Council plan period doesn’t appear to align with the National Plan

Unfortunately, due to the programmes shown on TV, a lot of people believe that the waste sent for recycling go to landfill site in other countries. Also, some businesses do not have a recycling plan. Also, when you move to a different council each council have different rules of what they accept and don't accept. Eg. Notts council don't accept glass when the lorry goes round but if you move to Doncaster, they do but you have a box to put it in. Yes, I know we have glass points in villages but a lot of people can't get there as they are disabled or elderly and are unable to get to the points therefore end up putting the glass in general waste. I think across the country there should be the same rules. I believe we need to change people's conception of recycling. I wonder if maybe there are tours people can go round to see what happens to items that are sent for recycling to encourage people to recycle more. Gainsborough have a very good recycling centre well set out and have separate sections for all the items to be recycled.
Maybe Notts council could go and have a look for some ideas. I definitely do think we need to change people's attitudes to recycling.
I do think we need to change food producer's ideas because when a person is single you cannot buy a lot of items for just one person so the person has to buy more than one and then often ends up chucking the other away thus wasting food and more food ending up in landfill, and when so when many people are hungry, it seems such a waste of good food. I do think all general waste should be used to produce electricity.
I hope the points are useful.

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?

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