Figures showing that the amount of money spent on landfill by Pembrokeshire County Council has fallen by almost two-thirds over the past four years, have been welcomed by the Authority.
According to data obtained by BBC Wales, the Council was among the top performers in Wales.
Last year the Council spent £653,100 on landfill costs compared with £1.74 million in 2011 – 2012 – a drop of 62 per cent
Out of Welsh councils, only Torfaen and Blaenau Gwent had cut their costs more.
Pembrokeshire County Councillor Huw George, Cabinet Member for Environmental and Regulatory Services, said: “We have been reducing the reliance on landfill year on year since 2011 – 2012 through the increased recycling by our householders.
“In 2015 the Council entered into a contract to divert residual waste away from landfill to create a Refuse Derived Fuel which is exported to a Swedish ‘energy from waste’ plant.
“As the waste is being used to create renewable energy, we’re making environmental savings, as well as economic savings.”
In Wales as a whole, the total weight of landfill dropped from 641,000 tonnes in 2012/13 to 450,000 tonnes in 2014-15 – a 30 per cent fall in three years.
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