Over the last year, Hampshire became one of the best recycling areas in the country.At the end of 1980’s Hampshire was facing a waste disposal crisis, as landscape was rapidly filling up, levels of waste were continuously increasing.
Mr Leon Richardson- Zhang, a communications officer for Recycling and Waste, said that “it was quite tricky” to get to the stage where Hampshire is now, especially when in 1988 recycling was only being introduced and people had to be informed about the importance of it.
It started of “collections of rubbish from homes” and “separation of the rubbish, what was quite a big project” at the time, said Mr Zhang.
Despite a difficult period of a worldwide economic depression, it has progressed immensely.
Previous campaigns like ‘Recycle for Hampshire’ proved successful and encouraged residents to recycle more of their households.
Additionally, Hampshire’s Household Waste and Recycling Centres will now remain open for an extra hour in March and so the spring cleaning and tidying of the gardens this month will have more time to recycle their household.
Moreover, thanks to the projects like INTEGRA, Hampshire has some of the best waste infrastructure in the UK.
It has now set itself a target of recycling 50% by the year 2010, what is “quite a likely target as Hampshire has been continuously beating targets set up by government".
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