Our Environment

1. Deliver high quality places where people want to live, work and invest, using the Local Development Plan, regeneration and excellence in leadership.

2. Improve and sustainably manage our environment, protecting it for future generations.

3. Encourage people to value our natural environment and built heritage, by enhancing responsible access to it and promoting the benefits it offers for our health and wellbeing.

4. Lead by example and reduce the impact of Council services on the environment.

• Environmental charity Keep Northern Ireland Beautiful, working in collaboration with Mid & East Antrim Borough Council, provided dedicated cigarette butt bins in four locations across the Borough including, Springwell Road Car Park Ballymena, Town Hall and Main Street Larne and the Marine Car Park in Carrickfergus.

• In July 2022, Council’s Climate and Sustainability team delivered a Climate Action Roadshow in partnership with Councils Environmental Health team to the Borough’s three main towns of Ballymena, Carrickfergus and Larne.

• Council has developed a new Fleet Strategy which focuses on reducing fleet emissions, driving efficiencies to ensure a cost effective fleet. To do this, Council adopted a ‘cradle to grave’ (sustainable) tyre management system with Michelin in which tyres are re-grooved, re-used and eventually recycled. Headline figures for 2022 include 2.3 tonne reduction of waste, 4,964 litre reduction of fuel and 20.7 tonnes of CO2e savings.