In 2007/8 Cambridgeshire residents produced  around 301,000 tonnes of household waste. An impressive 50.5% of this was recycled and composted. The rest – around 149,000 tonnes – was landfilled.

Cambridgeshire faces future waste challenges: 

• a growing population 
• households producing more waste 
• tough Government targets to reduce the amount of waste we landfill 
• increases in the cost of waste management

As a result of these, we need to move away from our historical reliance on landfill.