Defra press release:
ffective waste management in the Coventry, Solihull and Warwickshire areas were given a boost as a local waste management partnership was awarded £129.1 million worth of Private Finance Initiative (PFI) credits earlier this month.
Project Transform, a partnership project between the three local authorities, will help divert up to 427,000 tonnes of biodegradable municipal waste (BMW) from landfill per annum by 2020.
The project could see a reduction of approximately 34,500 tonnes of CO2 emissions, compared with the current scheme, equal to taking 10,800 cars off the road for a year. In addition, this project is expected to create more than 250 jobs during construction.
Each local authority involved is committed to long-term minimum recycling and composting rates of over 50 per cent by 2020.
