New money for Ward Forums available...........get recycling
'£80,000 Recycling Rewards up for grabs for Ealing’s greenest wards PR204)Ealing Council has approved plans to boost recycling by offering an £80,000 as an incentive to the borough’s keenest recycling communities. The pilot scheme, which is the first of its kind in the capital, will see people living in each of the borough’s 23 electoral wards competing against each other to win cash for their local area. The ward with the highest proportion of households recycling, as well as the three with the greatest improvement in recycling rates, will be awarded £20,000 each - £80,000 in total.Instead of rewarding individual households, the scheme will benefit whole communities. Each ward in Ealing already has its own £40,000 annual budget – the winning wards will see their budget next year increased to £60,000, with residents being able to choose which local projects to spend the cash on.The council will use nationally recognised Waste and Resources Action Programme (WRAP) methodology to carry out recycling participation surveys in each ward and will assess which wards have seen the biggest increase in the proportion of households recycling by next spring. The weight of recycling will not be measured because experts say this could lead to residents needlessly disposing of items that could be re-used and the council is committed to not putting electronic chips in binsetc, etc. etc. see Council web site for more info
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