Waste Strategy
Aberdeen City Waste Strategy 2010-2025
The new Aberdeen City Waste Strategy 2010-2025 was adopted by Councillors at the Housing and Environment Committee on 13th April 2010.
The Strategy provides a statement of the key outcomes for all waste management in the city f
or the next fifteen years and provides a framework for the development of the next generation of waste infrastructure and services.
Aberdeen has made significant strides in managing waste more sustainably in the last decade, especially in the areas of municipal, construction and demolition waste but much remains to be achieved.
The Strategy has been developed through analysis of the drivers affecting waste management behaviour and practise. Subsequently, a process is followed of identifying key themes, goals, objectives and targets.
Key themes:
- Waste is a resource not a problem
- Gain value from waste at all stages of treatment
- Our resource, our solution
- The proximity principle
- The waste hierarchy
- Pragmatic, value for money but challenging
Targets:
- Waste growth will be eliminated by 2015
- Source segregated municipal waste recycling and organic waste treatment targets are:
- 45% by 2013
- 50% by 2020
- 56% by 2025
- Introduce organic waste collection for all households and develop treatment facilities within the Aberdeen area by 2013
- Municipal residual waste treatment capacity (including Energy from Waste) should not exceed 45% by 2020 and 40% by 2025
- No more than 5% of municipal waste to be landfilled by 2025
Download a copy of the full Aberdeen City Waste Strategy 2010 to 2025
Contacts:
Waste Strategy
The Strategy team includes: a Strategist - Waste Management and a Waste Strategy Officer. To contact the team
please send an email.
Waste Collections
The collections team includes: the Collections Crews, Authorised Officers, Operations Officer and Collections Manager who look after the city's collections of general refuse, recycling, garden/food waste, fly-tipping and bulky waste. To contact the Collections Team, Tel 08456 08 09 19 or email
wasteaware@aberdeencity.gov.uk
Waste Awareness
The Waste Awareness Team includes: a Community Waste Co-ordinator and four Community Waste Workers who work with schools, community groups and the general public. The team provides talks and workshops that cover all areas of Reduce Reuse and Recycling your waste. Contact the Waste Awareness Team at: Tel: 08456 08 09 19 or email the Waste Aware Team.
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