PRESS RELEASE
May 6 2003
CRN/AN/PR39 To be released immediately
GOVERNMENT URGED TO GIVE MORE MONEY TO THE CINDERELLAS OF RECYCLING
The Community Recycling Network has given a cautious welcome to the new pots of cash announced in DEFRA's response to the Strategy Unit report.
The separate funding programmes will give a much needed boost to efforts to increase recycling in this country but CRN warns that more detailed information needs to be forthcoming from the Government.
"We welcome the intention to provide more funding though, as always, the devil is in the detail. We look forward to seeing how the money is divvied up," says Andy Moore, CRN's coordinator.
"We hope that this translates into tangible assistance for the expertise development and service which our sector - so often the Cinderella of recycling - is becoming more and more successful in delivering.
"We also welcome the fact that DEFRA is prioritising the householder - who, after all, is the principal actor by which recovery of materials from domestic waste can be made meaningful.
" DEFRA's response highlights the need for recycling to be carried out in the context of a strong partnership with industry - that industry includes the community recycling sector.
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The Community Recycling Network is a national umbrella organisation for more than 300 community groups, co-operatives and not-for-profit businesses in the community waste sector. Its aim is to promote community-based recycling as the most effective way of tackling the UK's growing waste problem. Its members have achieved some of the highest recycling rates in the UK and offer separated kerbside recycling collections to 1.6 million households - seven per cent of the UK population. The Community Recycling Network is based at Trelawny House, Surrey Street, Bristol, BS2 8PS, tel: (0117) 942 0142. The CRN website is www.crn.org.uk. For all media enquiries please contact: Andy Nelmes, CRN Press Officer, (0117) 908 0415 or 07949 626119, andyn@crn.org.uk