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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 .
Making waste work in London The Mayor’s Draft Business Waste Management Strategy Mayor of London 131 Buy green ■ A GLA group Responsible Procurement Policy has been developed to ensure the annual £4 billion spend benefits London’s businesses, workers and the environment ■ All the Functional Bodies are signed up to the Mayor of London’s Green Procurement Code ■ Following their success in winning the Most Innovative Organisation at the Mayor of London’s Green Procurement Code awards in 2005, LFEPA has continued to develop contracts with the recycling industries and is actively promoting the use of their waste fire hose for commercial reuse in innovative furniture, footwear and clothing accessory designs 285 ■ LFEPA were again highly commended at the 2007 awards for their procurement activities 286 and won both the overall award at the City of London’s Sustainable City Awards and the Sustainable Procurement Award in February 2007 287 ■ The Metropolitan Police Service were runners up in the City of London’s Sustainable City Awards in the Sustainable Procurement category in 2007 and were highly commended at the 2006 Mayor of London’s Green Procurement Code awards 288 ■ Data provided to the Mayor of London’s Green Procurement Code 289 showed that in 2006/07, the GLA group had a combined spend of over £8 million on recycled products, representing an increase of almost nine per cent on the previous year. Managing environmental impacts ■ Transport for London have developed and implemented an integrated health, safety and environmental management systems across the organisation following internationally recognised standards of good practice, including ISO 14001 290 ■ LFEPA’s Procurement Department gained accreditation under ISO 14001 in September 2005 291 ■ The LDA’s new office - Palestra – was built to achieve a ‘very good’ BREEAM rating (Building Research Establishment Environmental Assessment Method) 292 ■ The LDA have established a Green Office Programme, which will target resource efficiency, recycling, and travel to work policies 293 ■ The LDA was named National Green Champion in Building and Construction for its clean-up of contaminated land at White Hart Triangle, east of Woolwich, where it plans to create a one million square foot industrial park 294 . 6.3 The Mayor and the GLA group will lead by example in implementing this strategy through the improved management of GLA group waste,
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