Waste management
The waste management service carries out the County Council's functions as a waste disposal authority and manages former landfill sites and other waste management assets so as to minimise their impact on the environment.
We do this through the cost-effective provision of high quality waste treatment, recycling, composting and disposal services, and through leading or actively participating in appropriate partnership arrangements such as the York and North Yorkshire waste partnership. The unit is split into two groups - waste services and strategic procurement. The activities carried out by the waste services group fit broadly into six categories: - administration and service support
- contract management
- asset management
- performance and information management
- policy and strategy development
- waste prevention, education, outreach and community liaison
The strategic procurement group has been created to procure contracts and provide locations for the development of facilities to provide a long term waste management service. It is split into two teams; one delivering the contract procurement and the other delivering on sites and planning issues. About waste management
 | The waste management service forms part of the business and environmental services directorate. The unit provides a wide range of services delivered from County Hall and other offices in Northallerton.The waste management service carries out the County Council's function as a waste disposal authority which includes: - administration and service support
- contract management
- asset management
- performance and information management
- policy and strategy development
- waste minimisation, education, outreach and community liaison
The waste management service carries out the County Council's function as a waste disposal authority which includes: - Arranging for the safe disposal of household and commercial waste collected by District and Borough Councils.
- Provision of local household waste recycling centres where residents can take their own bulky waste for disposal and/or recycling.
- Encouraging the reduction of waste and an increase in recycling and composting, through practical campaigns and schemes such as promoting donating and buying from charity shops, home composting and the use of cotton nappies.
- Practical and financial support to District and Borough Councils, charities, voluntary and community groups to help them develop and operate reuse and recycling schemes.
- Management of closed landfill sites to ensure they remain safe and do not pollute the environment.
The waste management service also plays a lead role in the York and North yorkshire waste partnership. Working together with the District and Borough Council, the partnership aims, as a minimum - To recycle or compost 40% of household waste by 2010
- To recycle or compost 45% of household waste by 2013
- To recycle or compost 50% of household waste by 2020 and
- Divert 75% of municipal waste from landfill by 2013
The partnership has also set itself challenging waste reduction targets to reduce the amount of waste it has to deal with in the first instance. |
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