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Lib Dems campaign for food waste collections to reduce landfill

5.03.00pm UTC (GMT +0000) Thu 24th Jan 2008

Bulldozer in rubbish landfill site. (photography: Courtesy of the National Renewable Energy Laboratory at the United States of America's Department of Energy)

Waste going to landfill

Oxford's Lib Dem city council has announced it intends to start up a pilot scheme this spring to ensure food waste can be collected from more than 6,500 properties in the city. Assuming it's successful, the pilot will be widened to include the whole of Oxford.

The Lib Dems' 'recycling revolution' in Oxford has been generally welcomed by residents, pleased at long last (after years of inaction by Labour) to be able to recycle plastics, garden waste, cardboard etc, and do their bit to help combat global warming. This pilot scheme - long part of the Lib Dem administration's plans for extending recycling - will act to divert further waste from landfill.

You can read the Oxford Times' coverage here:

http://www.thisisoxfordshire.co.uk/mostpopular.var.1990955.mostviewed.food_waste_pilot_from_spring.php

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