Lewisham's Waste in Metric Tonnes
Conservative Mayoral Candidate, Simon Nundy, is appalled at Lewisham Council’s record on recycling. He set up and ran a Lewisham based doorstep recycling service for 14 years and knows what needs to be done.
Lewisham is ranked 374th out of 394 councils for recycling. Failure to tackle landfill means that we are now in danger of missing the 2013 Landfill Directive target which requires we reduce the amount of land filled biodegradable municipal waste to 50 per cent of 1995 levels – which would mean a fine from Brussels of hundreds of millions of pounds and higher council tax rates for taxpayers. Read more »
