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Key policy proposals in ‘Waste Strategy 2000’ (relevant to wider wastes) • By 2005, to reduce the amount of industrial and commercial waste landfilled to 85% of 1998 levels. • To use the Landfill Tax escalator as the key tool to reduce landfill of waste. • To develop new and stronger markets for recycled materials through the Waste and Resources Action Programme (WRAP). • To promote public procurement of recycled products. • To introduce producer responsibility initiatives beyond existing packaging initiatives to include end-of-life vehicles, batteries, and waste electrical and electronic equipment. • To affirm the use of Best Practicable Environmental Option (BPEO), the proximity principle, and the waste hierarchy. Key policy proposals in ‘Waste Not, Want Not’ (relevant to wider wastes and accepted in principle in the Government’s Response) • Extend voluntary agreements with industry to reduce waste and increase the use of recycled materials and the recyclability of products. • Promote public procurement of recycled products. • Consider the case for applying incentives such as economic instruments to encourage environmentally-friendly products. • Promote the use of secondary resources through BSI standards. • Finalise central Government targets for the use of recycled materials. All Departments to also have in place a trained Green Procurement Officer. • Encourage local authorities to establish environmental procurement policies and set their own targets. • Encourage the development of quality standards for compost, ensuring in particular that the needs of the customer are taken fully into account. • Increase the Landfill Tax to £35 per tonne for active waste, in the medium term. • Consider, in 2006/07, the case for banning the landfilling or incineration of recyclable products. • Provide guidance to magistrates for prosecution of waste crimes. • Keep the case for an incineration tax under review, so that the rise in landfill tax does not promote incineration at the expense of all other options. • Bring together the literature and evidence on the relative health and environmental effects of all the different waste management options; • Promote education and awareness of waste issues via the Waste and Resources Action Programme (WRAP). • Develop pilots for more innovative waste management practices in partnership with industry and local authorities. 4
• Set up a delivery taskforce to fill the gap between national policy and local plans. • Expand the coverage of Envirowise to 20% of UK companies over the next two years. • Accelerate the current programme of work to improve delivery of Private Finance Initiative (PFI) waste projects. 1 • Reform the Landfill Tax Credit Scheme to adopt a more strategic approach to waste, to tackle priority areas for investment in waste management. • Redirect landfill tax revenue to incentivise investment in reduction, re-use and recycling. • Strengthen waste policy-making, strategic planning, technical, legal and other services available to DEFRA. • Allocate addition funding to WRAP. • Revise PPG10 to ensure all required facilities for recycling residual waste management can proceed. • Ensure that Best Value Indicators support waste reduction and recycling. • Ensure clear definition of all hazardous waste is developed and disseminated • Assess existing and planned capacity for hazardous waste management and establish a Hazardous Waste Forum. • Assess the potential for fly-tipping of hazardous waste in light of legislative requirements. Further recommendations specific to commercial and industrial waste: • Explore the potential for supporting the wider development of waste exchanges. • Consider the value of mandatory environmental reporting. • Increase the role of waste minimisation clubs. • Consider the use of statutory targets for commercial and industrial waste. Consider increasing targets after 2005 (subject to data availability, and with voluntary arrangements as the preferred option). 2.7. Some of the proposals in ‘Waste Not, Want Not’ have already been implemented and others are due to be implemented through legislation currently being developed. Those already implemented include a stepped increase in Landfill Tax, reform of the Landfill Tax Credit Scheme, and development of a Sustainable Waste Management Programme at DEFRA. The recommendation in ‘Waste Not, Want Not’, that an independent body should bring together the evidence on the relative health and environmental effects of waste management options has been progressed by the recent publication of the document Review of Environmental and Health Effects of Waste Management: Municipal Solid Waste and Similar Wastes. 2 1 PFI projects are mainly relevant to municipal waste streams managed by local authorities, although there could be spillover benefits to wider waste streams. 2 Review of Environmental and Health Effects of Waste Management: Municipal Solid Waste and Similar Wastes. Enviros and University of Birmingham, for Defra. May 2004. 5
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LREs wishing to model the viability
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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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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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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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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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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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Appendix E: Local Authority C&I Col
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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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