Waste and Recycling

Limavady Borough Council provides a refuse and recycling service to all 11,782 households. The Council is dedicated to meeting the national recycling targets and continues to search for new innovative ways of improving and increasing recycling activities throughout the borough. Limavady Borough Council introduced their blue bin kerbside recycling service to each household in 2003 and has currently achieved a recycling rate of 35%.

Please leave Wheeled bins out from 7am.

To tackle the issue of waste management in Northern Ireland, it was decided that a regional approach would prove more beneficial to each of the twenty six councils. The three regional groups are: ARC21 which covers the eastern area of the province, SWAMP covers the southern area and The North West Region Waste Management Group (NWRWMG). NWRWMG Map NWRWMG has seven members of which Limavady Borough Council is one. The other members include; Coleraine Borough Council, Ballymoney Borough Council, Moyle District Council, Magherfelt Borough Council, Strabane District Council, and Derry City Council.

NWRWMG have produced the North West Waste Management Plan which has changed the way in which local authorities collect, process and dispose of their waste. They continue to monitor, review and develop the plan to ensure it enables its members to meet their statutory requirements and achieve the EU and National recycling targets.

Northern Ireland targets for waste management are:

To recover 25% of household waste by 2005
To recover 40% of household waste by 2010
To divert 25% of biodegradable waste from landfill by 2010
To divert 50% of biodegradable waste from landfill by 2013
To divert 65% of biodegradable waste from landfill by 2020

Background Information for North West Waste Management group is available from here.

North West Region Waste Management Plan

Visit the North West Region Waste Management Group website and download the North West Waste Plan by selecting the link North West Waste Plan

The future

Limavady Borough Council as part of the North West Region Waste Management Group remains committed to meeting and exceeding the national recycling targets. New services, such as the brown bin kerbside service for bio-degradable waste, are due to be introduced throughout the borough during 2007.

For further information regarding waste management, please contact:

Technical Services Department
Environmental Services Directorate
Limavady Borough Council
7 Connell Street
Limavady
BT49 0HA

Tel: (028) 7776 0305
Fax: (028) 7772 9005

Email: technicalservices@limavady.gov.uk

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