Londoners to target £320 million recycling savings before 2015
Thursday, June 9, 2011 - 15:42:56
Boris Johnson, the Mayor of London, is leading a new recycling drive in the UK capital which hopes to see more than £320 million saved each year as a result of goods being reused rather than sent to landfill.
In 2010 around £30 million was saved, but a target of more than ten times this amount has been set, with a deadline of 2015 to achieve the ambitious goal for recycling.
Recycling makes sense on a financial level as well as on an ethical one, because it is 25 per cent cheaper to recycle waste goods than to dispose of them in the traditional, inefficient manner.
Around 80 per cent of the typical household rubbish bag is thought to be recyclable, which means there is still a long way to go before all of the savings can be squeezed from average homes.
The 80 per cent mark can only be reached if people are encouraged to recycle things like old mobile phones and other electrical appliances, according to a report on LondonCouncils.gov.uk.
As well as recycling mobile phones, the authorities are recommending that people take their unwanted clothes to charity stores and make the most out of kitchen and garden waste by starting a compost heap.
All of these pieces of advice are fairly classic examples of how recycling can help you live a greener, more environmentally friendly lifestyle. And of course the good news is that none of them is particularly taxing to achieve.
Recycling mobile phones is perhaps the most beneficial of the suggested activities because in almost all cases you can get a bit of cash back for your old handset. In turn, doing this will free up more council funding to spend on other issues which need attention.
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