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108 Mayor of London Making waste work in London The Mayor’s Draft Business Waste Management Strategy Busting the recyclable myth 5.19 Producers should consider available recycling infrastructure as part of the design process. Clearly, a product is only recyclable if it can be dismantled easily and inexpensively and if there are the facilities and technologies available to recycle it, a factor that needs to be better taken into account by producers. It is not enough to produce new compostable packaging, for example, if composting facilities, equipped to handle compostable packaging, do not exist locally or if it conflicts with local recycling messages. Local authorities may not have the local infrastructure to manage certain packaging materials, or packaging products may be composed in such a way as to make them difficult to recycle or uneconomic to collect, in terms of having a viable onward market. 5.20 Research on packaging from 29 everyday food items purchased from six supermarkets, a local market and a local high street, found that around five per cent of the weight of the goods was made up of packaging and that 40 per cent of the packaging waste could not be recycled 237 . In this situation these materials must be disposed of as waste, at cost to the tax payer. Producers’ claims about how recyclable their products are must reflect the local recycling infrastructure or producers need to work with local authorities to develop collection and reprocessing facilities. 5.21 Good product information is a necessary condition for effective policies to improve the environmental performance of products and there is a strong case that effective labelling becomes a policy priority at EU level 238 . The British Retail Consortium and WRAP are proposing a consistent approach to recycling information labelling on consumer packaging across the UK retail sector in order to help consumers recycle more packaging 239 . Case study 48 - Carton manufacturers take responsibility seriously Each year, UK beverage carton manufacturers produce 55,000 tonnes of paper-based cartons for milk, juice, sauces and other liquid food/drinks. This equates to around two kilograms of cartons per household which could be recycled instead of thrown in the rubbish bin. The Alliance for Beverage Cartons and the Environment in the UK (ACE UK), has launched a £1.2 million National Recycling Fund to help local authorities dramatically boost beverage carton recycling in the UK. Agreed between member companies the fund will substantially increase industry support to local authorities and other organisations in order to help them establish carton collection systems, either through their kerbside service or bring bank network.
Making waste work in London The Mayor’s Draft Business Waste Management Strategy Mayor of London 109 The cartons will be taken to a bulking facility in east London and from where they will be shipped to a mill in Sweden before being recycled into plasterboard linings. Currently there is not enough capacity in the market to recycle the cartons in the UK, something the Alliance is hoping to change. Source: Tetrapak Recycling Proposal 26 The Mayor will call a conference of producers, grocery retailers and London boroughs to: ■ commit to reducing product and packaging waste ■ discuss the production and retail of materials that cannot be recycled or composted in London (e.g. compostable packaging) and use their resources to develop processing and reprocessing capacity ■ discuss the issues around the development of consistent and clear product labelling.
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