Waste Strategy

In 2002, we adopted our  20-year plan for waste management [4MB] . The strategy sets out the long-term vision for the management of the rubbish which we all throw away.

Since 2008, we've been working in partnership with our contractors Veolia to deliver the aims of the strategy to maximise recycling and reduce rubbish.

Additional waste reduction targets

Since declaring a Climate Emergency in 2019, we have set ourselves additional waste reduction targets as part of our Environment Strategies and our Environment Strategy Delivery Plan.

These targets include:

• working towards significantly reducing single use plastics from our own activities
• reusing, recycling and composting at least 60% of municipal waste we handle by 2030
• providing separate food waste collections by 2025
• reviewing the potential to collect more plastic waste

You can find out more about waste collections on our rubbish and recycling webpages.