London Wider Waste Strategy - London - Greater London Authority

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• The standard rate is currently set at £1.60 per tonne. Waste streams addressed: Potential to reduce dependency on the extraction of primary aggregate, creating demand for secondary material. Producer Responsibility Obligations (Packaging Waste) Regulations 1997 Key Features • Places responsibility on business with an annual turnover greater that £2million and handling more then 50 tonnes of packaging each year to recover specific tonnages of packaging according to the activity they perform. • They must also register with the Environment Agency or a compliance scheme, demonstrate that their obligations have been met, and inform consumers as to how they are increasing recycling and recovery. Waste streams addressed: Packaging waste. Proposed Changes: Targets will rise in response to current negotiations at the European level. Packaging (Essential Requirements) Regulations 1998 Key Features • The volume and weight of packaging must be minimised, consistent with the level necessary for safety, hygiene and acceptance by the consumer. • The design and use of packaging in a manner that permits its reuse and recovery. • Limits the concentration of lead, cadmium, mercury and hexavalent chromium in packaging. Waste streams addressed: Packaging waste. End of Life Vehicles Regulations Key Features • Came into effect on the 3 rd November 2003 • Regulations to introduce the licensing of authorised End of Life Vehicle treatment sites • Outlines how authorised handlers should dismantle, recycle and dispose of vehicle materials • Proposes that producers should pay the costs of all end of life vehicles from 2007 Waste Streams addressed: End of Life Vehicles 152
Green Paper on PVC Key Features • Presents and assesses various environmental issues that occur during the life cycle of PVC (Poly vinyl chloride), which include human health aspects. • Considers, in view of sustainable development, a number of options to reduce the impacts that need to be addressed. Waste streams addressed: PVC 153
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Policy & Partnerships London Wider
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CONTENTS 1. Introduction 1 2. Waste
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Chapter 2 summarises the principal
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Key policy proposals in ‘Waste St
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2.8. The national Planning Policy G
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• where waste cannot be dealt wit
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Policies of neighbouring regions 2.
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• A Thematic Strategy on waste re
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2.34. Legislation applying to speci
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addresses eight main environmental
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3.19. The London Regional Technical
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4.3. There then follows a section o
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Table 4.1: Arisings and basic compo
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Table 4.3: Total commercial and ind
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around London but not on the quanti
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Table 4.6: Number and weight of sam
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through a 20mm sieve Total 73 27.4
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handling and transport in London, r
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4.66. Not surprisingly, all of the
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some construction companies had the
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necessary that the waste producers
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4.101. One other potential major in
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SMEs comprise a slightly lower prop
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Drivers for Sustainable Waste Manag
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4.123. Whilst sustainable waste man
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Encouragement of waste minimisation
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companies. There is no service offe
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their companies than the larger com
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such as road construction, it close
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LREs wishing to model the viability
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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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Page 140 and 141: Future Actions Table 7.1: Summary o
Page 142 and 143: Theme 3: Support for Existing Initi
Page 144 and 145: for contaminated soils within Londo
Page 147 and 148: Appendix A: Waste policy and legisl
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Page 151 and 152: UK Policy The majority of UK waste
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Page 173 and 174: Finally, the authorities were asked
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Page 177 and 178: All authorities were asked how they
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Page 183 and 184: Appendix F: Consultees for Construc
Page 185 and 186: Appendix G: Policy, legislative and
Page 187 and 188: Measure Germany Denmark Belgium The
Page 189 and 190: Measure Germany Denmark Belgium The
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