§ Sir Knox Cunninghamasked the Minister of Housing and Local Government if he will list in tabular form those local 145W authorities which make special collections of waste paper for repulping and those which make no such collections; and if he will identify those authorities which cooperate with the Waste Paper Recovery Association Limited.
§ Mr. MacCollThe Working Party on Refuse Collection reported that in 1964, out of 1,364 local authorities who replied to their questionnaire, 857 were collecting waste paper at source. These local authorities were not named in the report, as the information had been analysed by machine. The work of extracting the names now would not in my right hon. Friend's view be justified, especially as the information would be out-of-date. I understand that the Waste Paper Recovery Association receive returns from about 700 councils but no list is readily available. More detailed information may in future be assembled by the advisory organisation which the trade and local authority interests have just set up to watch trends in supply and demand.