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Action plans
Local and National Waste Strategies and Action Plans
As a Waste Collection Authority, Wandsworth Council is responsible for collecting household waste and delivering it to the local Waste Disposal Authority - the Western Riverside Waste Authority (WRWA).
WRWA is responsible for disposing of waste on behalf of Wandsworth and three other London boroughs: Hammersmith and Fulham, Lambeth and the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea.
WRWA and the four boroughs it serves formed the Riverside Waste Partnership to co-ordinate services across the region and agree the facilities needed to best meet their needs. This means they can manage your waste more efficiently.
Wandsworth's Refuse and Recycling Action Plan
Wandsworth's Recycling and Refuse Action Plan 2005-11 is appended to the Riverside Waste Partnership's Joint Municipal Waste Management Strategy (see below).
It tells you how we planned to reduce waste, increase recycling and improve waste collections between 2005 and 2011.
We intend to publish a new action plan during 2012.
Western Riverside Waste Authority disposal strategy
After collection by the council's contractors, your domestic rubbish, recycling is taken to the Western Riverside Waste Authority (WRWA) along with other municipal waste . WRWA arranges the disposal of residual rubbish, sorts out the contents of orange recycling sacks and banks and sends the sorted materials to reprocessors who make them into new products.
WRWA produced a Joint Municipal Waste Managament Strategy in 2002. They intend to publish a new strategy during 2012.
Regional and national strategies
The Mayor of London published a revised Municipal Waste Management Strategy for London in November 2011.
In May 2007 the former Labour Government published its Waste Strategy for England 2007, and in July 2008 a Progress Report was published.
In May 2011 the current coalition Government published a Review of Waste Policy. It is expected to publish a new Waste Strategy for England in 2012.
