Belfast - Environment Minister Edwin Poots has welcomed
quarterly figures that show households are now recycling more
waste than ever before (39 percent), exceeding targets for the
second consecutive quarter in 2009. The household recycling
targets for April to September 2009 have exceeded the 35 percent
target set for 2010. Commenting on the results, Minister Poots
said: “Recycling is increasingly part of everyday life in
households across Northern Ireland. People are rethinking how
they treat waste and are clearly considering the impact their
waste has on the environment.” The Northern Ireland Municipal
Waste Management Statistics report (July to Sept 2009) also
indicated that composting accounted for 19 percent, with
recycling making up the other 20 percent of household waste
recycled. The remaining 61 percent of household waste was sent
to landfill sites. Whilst municipal waste sent to landfill was
almost 2 percent less when compared to the same quarter in 2008,
there was a 21 percent decrease in biodegra