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Measure Germany Denmark Belgium selective demolition. The Netherlands Advisory services • Information and advisory • Two private sector institutions • National advisory service for • Advisory services regarding services to be made available are provided with financial recycling in the construction prevention and re-use of C&D to C&D companies is a support to act as ‘know-how’ industry operated from 1994- waste are provided by provision in voluntary centres for C&D waste 1997. A separate service commercial and not-for-profit agreements. recycling and disposal. currently operates covering organisations. recycling in road construction. • An internet-database with waste minimisation and separation measures for the building sector is available, plus reports of demonstration projects and manuals for EMSs for the building sector. Waste exchanges • National and regional internet- • There is an active market for • Flemish waste agency operates based waste exchanges C&D waste in Denmark. an internet-based waste offering uncontaminated road Demolition contractors market exchange. construction waste, concrete, re-usable demolition materials bricks, crushed and uncrushed natural stone, soil and wood. from their own stock yards. Positive waste planning measures • Regional authorities issue guidance and information on • High national recycling targets for waste. Municipalities set • Flemish Waste Decree (1981) explicitly enables use of waste • Government programme since 1996 aimed at the promotion how to increase recovery of local targets in their waste materials as secondary raw of environmentally friendly C&D waste. management plans generally materials, the rules and products in the building • All demolition activities need approval from the relevant authorities. • following the national targets. Municipalities responsible for securing sufficient local conditions for which were defined in the VLAREA legislation. • sector. Ministry of Environmental Planning published a • German Waste Management treatment capacity for C&D • Flemish waste authorities must handbook for governmental Act requires federal authorities waste, often involves the develop implementation plans organisations providing and other public agencies to municipalities setting up and directed at specific industrial practical measures and use particularly durable, less- operating facilities themselves. sectors (e.g. Implementation instruments on the use of polluting or recycled materials Plan for C&D waste developed secondary raw materials. in construction, demolition and renovation of public in conjunction with the industry). • Local authorities have many instruments available to them works. Guidance has been to stimulate use of secondary published by the Federal raw materials, e.g. including government for implementing specific regulations into plans, these requirements. attaching conditions to building permits. 184
Measure Germany Denmark Belgium The Netherlands Good monitoring systems • Reliable monitoring system of C&D production in place. • Reliable monitoring system of C&D production in place. Mandatory reporting • Demolition permits required with mandatory reporting to authorities. Standards & quality assurance schemes • Technical requirements are set out for the use of recycled • Danish Society of Civil Engineers issued a standard for • C&D waste crushers and processors require a permit to • The Dutch association of demolition waste contractors C&D waste in technical the use of crushed concrete process waste and a certified (BABEX) set up a system of documents. and masonry as an aggregate Quality Assurance system. certification for its members in • • • Quality standards are set by the Quality Association of Construction Material Recyclers. Generally, secondary and recycled materials have to comply with the same requirements as primary materials. Standard for demolition works to define and describe demolition activities. material in new concrete. • Thus not only the waste products have to fulfil environmental conditions, but the processing company or system is also subject to conditions. Flemish recycling association and the regional governments’ technical authorities initiated a voluntary certification scheme for recycled aggregates used in unbound applications. COPRO is the body responsible for the certification of these aggregates, and control of the QA systems at the recycling plants. prescribing separate removal and supply of C&D waste. A similar certification system has been set up by the equvalent body for crushers and sorters (BRBS). • Subsequently, a national technical standard was drafted, to enable BENOR the national standards agency, to grant a quality label to C&D derived aggregates. Adapted from Symonds (1999) 185
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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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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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Page 140 and 141: Future Actions Table 7.1: Summary o
Page 142 and 143: Theme 3: Support for Existing Initi
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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 157 and 158: Green Paper on PVC Key Features •
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Page 161 and 162: Table C1. Data by Number (from Smal
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Page 169 and 170: All of the respondents said that th
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Page 173 and 174: Finally, the authorities were asked
Page 175 and 176: The authorities were asked how the
Page 177 and 178: All authorities were asked how they
Page 179 and 180: Table E11: Do you expect to meet th
Page 181 and 182: Table E15: What is the situation re
Page 183 and 184: Appendix F: Consultees for Construc
Page 185 and 186: Appendix G: Policy, legislative and
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