The Council's Waste Management Team is responsible for co-ordinating the delivery of waste management services for the borough's 109,000 households.
This is no small feat, given that we produce over 120,000 tonnes of waste in Rotherham each year, enough to fill Millmoor (Rotherham United Football Club's home ground) twice! And this is continuing to GROW!
The majority of the waste we produce in Rotherham, including everything householders put in their wheeled bins, is sent to landfill, big holes in the ground for disposal. However increasingly it is being recognised at a national and European level that we need to have a more sustainable approach to how we manage our waste, The Council now has a set commitment to Give Waste Another Chance by...
'developing sustainable waste management practices in a way that improves the quality of life in the borough by 2009'
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The Waste Management Team is an integral part of Streetpride.
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