Greater London has a number of waste disposal authorities , responsible for waste collection and disposal. Prior to the abolition of the Greater London Council in 1986, it was the waste authority for Greater London.
4-715: East London Waste Authority is one of the waste disposal authorities in London with responsibility for disposal of waste in the East London boroughs of London boroughs of Newham, Barking and Dagenham , Havering and Redbridge . The waste authority was established on 1 April 1986 as a joint arrangement under part II of the Local Government Act 1985 . It replaced the Greater London Council in part of northeast London. The establishment of joint committees for this purpose
8-879: A voluntary capacity as the South London Waste Partnership . The ODPM proposed in 2006, as part of other transfers of powers to the Greater London Authority , to give it a waste function. The Mayor of London has made repeated attempts to bring the different waste authorities together, to form a single waste authority in London similar to the Greater Manchester Waste Disposal Authority which deals with waste from all households in Greater Manchester . This has faced significant opposition from existing authorities. However, it has had significant support from all other sectors and
12-484: The borough councils. They are funded by a levy on the local authorities. The other boroughs—that is to say the City of Westminster and the City of London along with Bexley , Bromley , Croydon , Greenwich , Kingston upon Thames , Lewisham , Merton , Southwark , Sutton and Tower Hamlets —are independent waste authorities in their own right. The four boroughs of Croydon, Kingston, Merton and Sutton work together in
16-719: Was voluntary. The boroughs could have become individual waste disposal authorities. Each was already, and continued to be, responsible for waste collection. The function of the authority is to transport and dispose of waste collected in each of the four East London boroughs it is responsible for. In 1995 the Authority served a population of over one million, and treated and disposed of up to 400,000 tonnes per annum of waste. Waste disposal authorities in London There are four statutory joint waste authorities, as follows: The joint authorities are made up of councillors nominated from
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