Green Party

For all of us who make an effort to reduce our waste, the greatest obstacle is the excessive packaging used for wrapping everyday goods. Packaging waste has risen twenty-fold in the past fifty years and now makes up almost one third of household waste. The impacts on the environment are well known but the costs to local taxpayers in rising landfill charges are rarely mentioned.

The best way to tackle this mounting problem is to legally oblige manufacturers to reduce packaging and switch to recyclable or biodegradable materials. We also need to re-introduce refill schemes and provide re-use and repair facilities.

For the past four years, the Green Party has been campaigning for Norfolk to follow the lead of California and build a Resource Recovery Park,
to which people could take a wide range of items for repair, re-use and recycling. We’re also pressing the City Council to provide composting
facilities for food waste and increase the range of items collected from the doorstep, to include batteries and tetrapaks for example. The Council is
currently introducing a new waste collection system to help increase recycling. I am concerned about the way this system has been introduced
in some areas but it has already resulted in significant increases in recycling levels in the first parts of the city to be brought onto the scheme.

Crucially, in addition to recycling facilities, we also need measures to reduce waste. The County Council has refused to implement our Resource
Recovery Park proposals but we will continue pressing for more action to tackle waste at source.

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