§ Mr. SalmondTo ask the Secretary of State for Scotland what percentage of household waste in Scotland is recycled; and if he will make a statement.
§ Sir Hector MonroReturns made by Scottish waste regulation authorities suggest that 2.9 per cent. of reported household waste arisings were collected for recycling in 1991. Recycling plans so far received from Scottish waste collection authorities indicate that it is the intention of many of these authorities to achieve significant increases in the quantities of household waste collected for recycling in their area.
Authorities *Aberdeen *East Kilbride Moray Angus *East Lothian Motherwell Annandale and Eskdale Eastwood *Nithsdale *Argyll and Bute *Edinburgh *North East Fife *Badenoch and Strathspey *Ettrick and Lauderdale *Orkney Islands *Banff and Buchan *Falkirk *Perth and Kinross *Bearsden and Milngavie *Glasgow *Renfrew *Berwickshire *Gordon *Ross and Cromarty Caithness *Hamilton *Roxburgh *Clackmannan *Inverclyde *Shetland Islands *Clydebank Inverness *Skye and Lochalsh *Clydesdale *Kilmarnock and Loudoun *Stewartry *Cumbernauld and Kilsyth Kincardine and Deeside *Stirling *Cumnock and Doon Valley *Kirkcaldy *Strathkelvin *Cunninghame *Kyle and Carrick Sutherland *Dumbarton Lochaber *Tweeddale *Dundee *Midlothian Western Isles Dunfermline *Monklands *West Lothian Wigtown Forty-two of the above authorities (*) have completed draft waste recycling plans. These plans give details of recycling initiatives designed to fit the geographic and financial circumstances that apply in particular local authority areas. They provide for either bring systems or kerbside collection systems as appropriate and between them the plans provide for the collection for recycling of newspapers, magazines, packaging paper, office paper, computer paper, cardboard, plastic bottles, glass, aluminium and steel cans, scrap metal, textiles and old clothes, used furniture, chlorofluoro carbons; batteries, used cars, garden waste, vegetable waste from kitchens and vegetable and mineral oils. Authorities are required to make waste recycling plans available for public inspection and to supply a copy to anyone who requests one on payment by that person of a reasonable charge.
Scottish local authorities were allocated close to £3.6 billion in revenue support grant in 1993–94 to be used to finance the provision of all local services including the collection of waste for recycling.