Green Party

Recycling and waste

• Green Councillors played a leading role in the successful community campaign against an incinerator in Costessey. The Green Party supported the alternative of a Mechanical Biological Treatment plant.
• Green Councillors have led calls for many improvements to recycling facilities in the city, including the provision of recycling in flats, plastic bottle recycling, and the original green box scheme. We are still calling for more improvements, such as better recycling for batteries, plastics and food waste. Norwich’s recycling rate has increased from 6%, when the first Green Councillors were elected, to 36% today. There is till a long way to go but we have helped push the council in the right direction.
• Following lobbying by Green Councillors, public recycling banks for glass, paper and card were installed in various city centre locations.