Local Authority Funding
For the period 2008/09 to 2010/11 Defra is making grant funding available to local authorities through the Waste Infrastructure Capital Grant and the London Waste and Recycling Fund.
Waste Infrastructure Capital Grant
The Waste Infrastructure Capital Grant is an unringfenced capital grant that will be paid to upper tier authorities outside London from 2008/09 and 2010/11. The funding available is £185m over three financial years.
The grant will be paid to LAs in recognition of the need to get front-end waste infrastructure, e.g. recycling and composting facilities, on the ground in time to help England meet landfill targets.
London Waste and Recycling Fund
London will be receiving a separate London Waste and Recycling Fund worth £60m over the next three years to 2010/11. The Fund will be administered by a new London Waste and Recycling Board.
The Waste Infrastructure Capital Grant and the London Waste and Recycling Fund replace the Waste Performance and Efficiency Grant (WPEG), which was paid to all local authorities in England with waste management responsibilities. WPEG ran from 2005/6 to 2007/8.
Waste Private Finance Initiative (PFI)
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