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130 Mayor of London
Making waste work in London The Mayor’s Draft Business Waste Management Strategy
6 Leading by example:
Putting our own house in order
Taking action
6.1 The Mayor expects the GLA group’s activities to meet the targets and
policies set out in his strategies. Particularly, in relation to this strategy,
to meet the London Plan recycling and reuse targets.
6.2 Throughout this strategy, some of the case studies have been drawn from
the work of the Mayor and the GLA group and illustrate ways in which
the Mayor is already seizing the opportunities presented by sustainable
resource use. To illustrate they way in which the Mayor has fulfilled his
commitment to lead by example, the following section details some of
the sustainable waste management activities of the GLA group to date.
Reduce and reuse
■ An environmental champion programme has been established at
City Hall to work with staff to reduce waste and encourage recycling.
Since August 2007, the GLA has reduced its waste from 1.7 tonnes
to 1.3 tonnes
■ Transport for London’s Oyster card has enabled paper ticket figures
in 2004/05 to drop by 32 million, reducing paper consumption 277
■ By implementing a battery take-back and recycling contract the
London Fire and Emergency Planning Authority (LFEPA) have
prevented over 200kg of battery waste from going to landfill each
year 278 and by identifying a new method of supplying water to
firefighters at operational incidents, LFEPA is saving 200,000 plastic
bottles, annually 279
■ In 2006, Transport for London reduced their waste by 18 per cent 280 .
Recycle and compost
■ A comprehensive recycling scheme operates at City Hall, in addition
to a relationship with East London Community Recycling Partnership
to compost food waste from the City Hall café and tea points. Since
August 2007, the GLA has achieved a monthly recycling rate in excess
of 80 per cent
■ The Metropolitan Police Service has developed a sustainable waste
management service including integrating internal collection into the
cleaning contract and providing training to staff 281 . A target has been
set to recycle 45 per cent of waste by 2010 282
■ In 2005/06, Tube Lines expanded its dedicated paper recycling scheme,
collecting waste paper from 26 stations and six depots on the Jubilee,
Northern and Piccadilly lines to recover over four tonnes of waste,
mostly comprising newspapers, for recycling every day 283
■ Transport for London recycled 87 per cent of the 115,000 tonnes
of construction waste it produced in 2005/06 284 .