The council is a member of arc21, a waste management group made up of six Northern Ireland councils - Lisburn & Castlereagh City Council, Ards and North Down Borough Council, Antrim and Newtownabbey Borough Council, Belfast City Council, Mid and East Antrim Borough Council and Newry, Mourne and Down District Council.
arc21 works on behalf of its member councils to guide, support and help us meet our legal requirements and drive forward innovative waste management programmes including the development of modern infrastructure to tackle the 15 million black bins worth of non-recyclable waste produced by households in the arc21 region every year.
Waste Management Plan - 2015