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Government waste targets failure attacked
23 April 2003
Responding to the Environmental Audit Committee's report on waste, "Waste - An Audit" (published today [1]), Friends of the Earth Senior Waste Campaigner Claire Wilton said:
"Yet again the Government has been hammered over its inability to tackle waste. The Environmental Audit Committee is spot on when it says that the current waste strategy is a "charter for incineration". The Government desperately needs to set a target to recycle half of our waste, and to promise every household a decent doorstep recycling service, while providing proper funding for local authorities. Until it does this it will continue to be deluged with justified criticism"
Notes
[1] The Environmental Audit Committee's Fifth Report of Session 2002-03, Waste - an Audit, HC99, published Wednesday 23rd April 2003. See www.parliament.uk/parliamentary_committees/environmental_audit_committee.cfm
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