campaigning for the Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipement (WEEE) Directive.
Waste Reduction
We are working with Monmouthshire Community Recycling, WormTech and Monmouthshire County Council to promote waste reduction, home composting and kerbside recycling of food, green and dry recyclables. Chepstow FoE strongly believes source-separated collection of dry recyclables is the most cost-effective and environmentally-friendly way to collect recycling, ensuring maximum diversion from landfill for minimum cost.
Chepstow FoE is also a member of the South East Wales FoE Waste Group, monitoring Prosiect Gwyrdd. Project Green is a consortium of 5 local councils - Monmouthshire, Newport, Cardiff, Caerphilly and Vale of Glamorgan - who are sourcing a residual waste treatment plant. The SEW FoE Waste Group is encouraging the councils to reject out-dated incineration and use Mechanical and Biological Treatment (MBT) to deal with the dwindling fraction of waste which can not be recycled, composted or anaerobically digested.