§ Mr. Malcolm BruceTo ask the Secretary of State for the Environment what resources are available to achieve the target of one bottle bank per 10,000 people by 1991.
§ Mrs. Virginia BottomleyDOE circular 13/88 drew attention to the fact that recycling helps reduce waste disposal costs and invited all waste disposal authorities to follow the example of those which gave a rebate to collection authorities who arrange for recycling. It is for collection authorities to provide facilities to enable people to separate glass from their other waste. The glass manufacturing industry has agreed to accept all the glass that is collected.
A consultation paper published on 24 January (Official Report 25 January col. 504) proposed that collection authorities would become directly responsible for arranging for the disposal of their waste; it would thus he possible for them to seek savings directly by encouraging recycling.