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• where waste cannot be dealt with locally, promote waste facilities that have good access to river or rail transhipments; • forecast waste arisings by stream and forecast imports and exports of waste. Policy 4A.1 Waste strategic policy and targets In order to meet the national policy aim that most waste should be treated or disposed of within the region in which it is produced (regional self-sufficiency) the Mayor will work in partnership with the London boroughs, the Environment Agency, statutory waste disposal authorities and operators to ensure that facilities with sufficient capacity to manage 75 per cent (16 million tonnes) of waste arising within London are provided by 2010, rising to 80 per cent (19 million tonnes) by 2015 and 85 per cent (22.5 million tonnes) by 2020. An early alteration to this plan will seek to bring forward regional self sufficiency targets for individual waste streams. The Mayor will work in partnership with the Government, boroughs, Environment Agency, statutory waste disposal authorities and operators to minimise the level of waste generated, increase re-use and recycling and composting of waste and reduce landfill disposal. Boroughs should ensure that land resources are available to implement the Mayor’s Municipal Waste Management Strategy, Waste Strategy 2000, the Landfill Directive and other EU directives on waste. The Mayor will work in partnership with the waste authorities, Environment Agency and operators to exceed recycling or composting levels in household waste of: 25 per cent by 2005 30 per cent by 2010 33 per cent by 2015. The minimum quantities represented by those targets are 1 million tonnes in 2005, 1.35 million tonnes in 2010 and 1.65 million tonnes in 2015. This would leave some 3.05 million tonnes in 2005, 3.1 million tonnes in 2010 and 3.25 million tonnes in 2015 to be dealt with by other means, with a declining reliance on landfill and an increasing use of new and emerging technologies. Having regard to the existing incineration capacity in London and with a view to encouraging an increase in waste minimisation, recycling, composting and the development of new and emerging advanced conversion technologies for waste, the Mayor will consider these waste management methods in preference to any increase in mass-burn incineration capacity. Each case, however, will be treated on its individual merits. The aim is that current incinerator capacity will, over the lifetime of this plan, become orientated towards non-recyclable residual waste. Policy 4A.2 Spatial policies for waste management In support of the Mayor’s Municipal Waste Management Strategy, the proximity principle and the need to plan for all waste streams, UDP policies should: • safeguard all existing waste management sites (unless appropriate compensatory provision is made); 8
• identify new sites in suitable locations for new facilities, such as Civic Amenity sites, construction and demolition waste recycling plants and closed vessel composting; • require the provision of suitable waste and recycling storage facilities in all new developments; • ensure that the principles of Best Practical Environmental Option are applied; • support appropriate developments for manufacturing related to recycled waste • support treatment facilities to recover value from residual waste • where waste cannot be dealt with locally, promote waste facilities that have good access to river or rail transport • identify and forecast for the period covered by the UDP total waste arisings, that is controlled wastes that include municipal waste and also commercial, industrial, hazardous and inert arisings, and the amount of waste that will be imported or exported. The Mayor will promote the co-ordination of the boroughs’ waste policies by bringing forward, as an early alteration to this plan, strategic guidance which will evaluate the adequacy of existing strategically important waste management and disposal facilities to meet London’s future needs, both for municipal and other waste streams, and identify the number and type of new or enhanced facilities required to meet those needs and the opportunities for the broad location of such facilities. This guidance will provide sufficient sub-regional guidance, including the disposal of waste arisings from the central sub-region, to inform the preparation of SRDFs and UDPs. Until the alteration of this plan is brought forward, the Mayor will work with boroughs to identify strategically important sites and will expect boroughs to apply the provisions set out in this Policy and Policies 4A.1 and 4A.3 in bringing forward development plans and in considering development proposals. He will also work with the South East England and East of England regional authorities to co-ordinate strategic waste management across the three regions. Policy 4A.3 Criteria for the selection of sites for waste management and disposal UDP policies should incorporate the following criteria to identify sites and allocate sufficient land for waste management and disposal: • proximity to source of waste; • the nature of activity proposed and its scale; • the environmental impact on surrounding areas, particularly noise, emissions, odour and visual impact; • the transport impact, particularly the use of rail and water transport • primarily using sites that are located on Preferred Industrial Locations or existing waste management locations. The Mayor will keep these criteria under review, and SRDFs should reflect the need for any sub-regional interpretation. 9
Page 1 and 2: Policy & Partnerships London Wider
Page 3: CONTENTS 1. Introduction 1 2. Waste
Page 6 and 7: Chapter 2 summarises the principal
Page 8 and 9: Key policy proposals in ‘Waste St
Page 10 and 11: 2.8. The national Planning Policy G
Page 14 and 15: Policies of neighbouring regions 2.
Page 16 and 17: • A Thematic Strategy on waste re
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Page 20 and 21: addresses eight main environmental
Page 22 and 23: 3.19. The London Regional Technical
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Page 42 and 43: necessary that the waste producers
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Page 46 and 47: SMEs comprise a slightly lower prop
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Table 4.10: Eco-sites established w
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• Support for the development and
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two internationally recognised stan
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London. A phased approach is recomm
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encouraged, and that guidance and/o
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number of employees of perhaps some
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4.230. The NHS provided a detailed
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4.241. For over half of the WCAs th
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5. Construction and Demolition Wast
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5.7. The findings for England and W
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City Limits 5.14. An alternative re
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Figure 5.1: Average total waste ari
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5.23. The hazardous waste component
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5.29. Nevertheless, the data estima
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Consultations 5.38. Consultations w
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to be so in to the future. However
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visit and review specific pages. A
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European Literature Review and Cons
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6. Special/Hazardous Waste Introduc
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‘Technical Assessment for Waste M
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accurate record of hazardous waste
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Figure 6.2: Breakdown of recorded h
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wastes to London are the closest, i
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Figure 6.4: Breakdown of hazardous
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6.47. There are a range of views fr
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Table 6.5: In-house landfills which
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equirements for the ‘new’ hazar
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options to improve treatment, such
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6.80. However, the new hazardous wa
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6.90. The future treatment of asbes
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7.7. London’s total hazardous was
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7.19. There is only limited composi
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waste management obligations and be
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construction and demolition compani
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the precise amount of landfill capa
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R.14 In order to more effectively t
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R32 It is recommended that a reduct
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measurement of wastes from construc
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Future Actions Table 7.1: Summary o
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Theme 3: Support for Existing Initi
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for contaminated soils within Londo
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Appendix A: Waste policy and legisl
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• whole used tyres (from 2003);
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UK Policy The majority of UK waste
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• Requires consents to discharge
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• Prohibits certain types of wast
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Green Paper on PVC Key Features •
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Chris Searles, Searles Associates D
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Table C1. Data by Number (from Smal
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Appendix D: Results of Further Anal
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Total 100 598.8 70.7 423.4 29.8 178
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Appendix E: Local Authority C&I Col
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All of the respondents said that th
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proportion of waste collected from
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Finally, the authorities were asked
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The authorities were asked how the
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All authorities were asked how they
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Table E11: Do you expect to meet th
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Table E15: What is the situation re
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Appendix F: Consultees for Construc
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Appendix G: Policy, legislative and
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Measure Germany Denmark Belgium The
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Measure Germany Denmark Belgium The
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