Students will be one of the "key areas of focus" when a new recycling strategy is rolled out in Nottingham amid disappointment at how few of them took part in a consultation on it. Nottingham City Council is trying to improve the area's recycling rate, which had fallen to 23.9 per cent last October, compared to a figure of 27 per cent in 2019.
The authority recently held a public consultation on plans for its future recycling strategy and despite receiving more than 3,600 responses, concerns were raised about the low number of responses from people living with disabilities and members of minority ethnic communities. But particular concern has also been raised about the low number of responses from Nottingham's students.
A meeting held about the council's future waste strategy on February 8 heard from Antony Greener, the head of district heating and waste strategy at Nottingham City Council. Speaking about the low response rate from students in the consultation, he said: "I'm very disappointed, given that this is the generation that claims to be the ones who are going to have to live with the burden of climate change.
