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6 Mayor of London Making waste work in London The Mayor’s Draft Business Waste Management Strategy They will be able to identify issues and actions specific to businesses of different sizes and operating in different sectors. They will be crucial partners during the public consultation and implementation of the strategy. 1.15 The Mayor welcomes the opportunity to consult widely on this draft strategy and its impact assessment reports for sustainability, equalities and health produced as supplementary documents to the strategy, particularly recognising the role of the business liaison groups in this process. The structure of this strategy 1.16 To achieve the Mayor’s vision, five policies (shown below together with their rationale) will be delivered through a range of proposals, given throughout the document. The strategy sets out an overarching framework of policy until 2020. As this strategy is the first of its kind, the text is largely intended to set the scene and take account of London’s current waste and resource management position with proposals for action focusing on the period to 2012/13, when the strategy will be updated. London recycles just half of the waste that it produces, a performance that requires major improvement. Policy 1 London’s businesses will achieve the reuse, recycling and composting targets in the London Plan by: ■ achieving recycling or composting levels in commercial and industrial waste of at least 70 per cent by 2020 ■ achieving recycling and reuse levels in construction, demolition and excavation waste of at least 95 per cent by 2020 ■ generating energy from any waste that cannot be recycled using advanced waste technologies, which will contribute to the Climate Change Action Plan goals. London is reliant on landfill outside the region and is not realising the economic opportunities and environmental benefits that local infrastructure could bring. Policy 2 The Mayor will work with partners to ensure facilities with sufficient capacity are provided to achieve the London Plan self-sufficiency targets of managing 75 per cent of waste arising within London by 2010, rising to 80 per cent by 2015 and 85 per cent by 2020.
Making waste work in London The Mayor’s Draft Business Waste Management Strategy Mayor of London 7 As a result of the size and complexity of London’s economy and the range of wastes produced, the management of business waste is poorly coordinated. Policy 3 The Mayor will work with partners to ensure information and advice is reaching all target audiences by: ■ coordinating the provision of information and advice ■ developing additional services that enable London’s businesses to use their resources more productively and manage their waste sustainably. Responsible management of the environmental impact of business operations can be simple and cheap to implement, can yield financial savings and improve performance. Policy 4 The Mayor will work with partners to raise and maintain awareness of resource productivity, sustainable waste transport and sustainable waste management among London’s businesses to bring about positive and permanent behavioural change. The Mayor expects the GLA group’s activities to meet the targets and policies set out in his strategies. By demonstrating excellence, the Mayor expects London’s businesses to be inspired to take responsibility and take action and contribute to London’s sustainability. Policy 5 The Mayor will ensure the GLA group leads by example to encourage London’s businesses to take responsibility and take action for their waste in accordance with the waste hierarchy and reduce London’s contribution to climate change. 1.17 Chapter two provides a brief introduction to the foundation of the strategy, the waste hierarchy. It goes on to provide an overview of London’s businesses and the legislative context for the strategy and sets out how the strategy delivers the Mayor’s vision for London and his strategic priorities. 1.18 Chapter three sets out the way in which change can be enabled through the shifting of economic drivers to make environmentally sustainable actions economically sustainable. This will be achieved through providing information and raising awareness among the business community of resource productivity and through the development of appropriate services and infrastructure, including reprocessing infrastructure. In doing so there are exciting economic and regeneration opportunities for London. Additionally, there are opportunities to expand the delivery of waste management services beyond the usual suspects and create the
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