This document contains proposals for dealing with your household rubbish right in to the second decade of the new millennium. We need you to consider the proposals now because the problem is urgent. We need your comments What Happens Next Hampshire, along with many other local authorities in the UK, is finding that implementing effective ways of managing domestic waste is becoming increasingly difficult. We have an acute household rubbish problem and are running out of time to resolve it, unless action is taken quickly. Rubbish has now become a big issue.
Many people already see the environmental implications of living in a 'throw away' society.
They dislike the waste of natural resources and the environmental impacts of the processes we use to dispose of waste. Clearly we need to do more to conserve our natural resources and to see that what we buy can also be reused and recycled. This means that a new and more complex system for dealing with waste is required. Our old solutions no longer meet the problem and new solutions do not always receive public support. More recycling means that new facilities are built, secure markets found for reclaimed material, and the public participate.