Recycling: Schools

Environment Food and Rural Affairs written question – answered am ar 30 Ebrill 2009.

Danfonwch hysbysiad imi am ddadleuon fel hyn

Photo of David Kidney David Kidney Llafur, Stafford

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

(1) what financial support his Department offers (a) local authorities and (b) schools to assist in the setting up of recycling schemes on school sites;

(2) what financial support his Department provides to schools to enable them to set up recycling facilities.

Photo of Jane Kennedy Jane Kennedy Minister of State (Farming and the Environment), Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

There is no direct funding from DEFRA to local authorities to set up recycling schemes or facilities in schools, as these would be funded from the local authorities' overall waste budget.

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