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Elliot Morley has renewed Defra's offer of specialist consultancy support for local authorities to help them meet waste recycling and composting targets for 2005/6 and cut waste going to landfill sites. Latest figures show that England looks certain to meet its national recycling and composting target of 17%, the first time such a target has been met. To build on this momentum and provide local authorities with further assistance to meet the ambitious national target of recycling and composting 25% of total household waste by 2005/6, Defra, through the Waste Implementation Programme, Local Authority Support Unit, has made further funding available for Direct Consultancy Support for 2005/6. The Environment Minister is urging those authorities that have yet to take advantage to apply as soon as possible.