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140 Mayor of London
Proposal
Making waste work in London The Mayor’s Draft Business Waste Management Strategy
Proposal 14 – London’s businesses, particularly those in light industrial estates, should examine the feasibility of:
■ generating energy on-site from their residual waste, particularly organic kitchen waste, through the use of advanced
waste technologies
■ using waste-derived transport fuels in their vehicle fleets.
Proposal 15 – The Mayor expects Defra and the Environment Agency to take action to address business waste data gaps, including:
■ undertaking the strategic waste management survey every five years
■ ensuring relevant data is collected from exempt waste management facilities
■ making data available and accessible
■ integrating data collection into government policy making, for example as part of the implementation of site waste management plans.
Proposal 16 – The Mayor will work with business sectors and their representative associations to produce sector-specific action plans,
which identify issues and actions specific to businesses of different sizes within each sector.
Proposal 17 – London’s businesses should conduct waste audits to:
■ establish waste prevention and reuse systems
■ identify the materials streams that they can recycle or compost and seek recycling and composting services alongside their waste
management contracts.
Proposal 18 – The Mayor will encourage developers to perform beyond the proposed minimum regulatory standard for site waste
management plans, for example by:
■ producing site waste management plans for major developments
■ identifying the hazardous waste that will arise and how it will be managed
■ stating how waste is being transported for recycling or disposal and the volume of waste being transported by each mode
■ aiming to achieve the London Plan reuse and recycling targets and support the principles of self-sufficiency and proximity.
Proposal 19 – The Mayor calls on TrustMark to include sustainable waste management as one of its certification criteria.
Proposal 20 – The Mayor will revise his Sustainable Design and Construction Supplementary Planning Guidance to set a preferred
standard for:
■ developers to provide a green procurement plan with their planning application, setting out the types of materials used, quantities
and their environmental provenance and efficiency
■ developers to adopt WRAP's requirements for good practice in recycled content and waste management and specify the requirement
for at least 15 per cent of the total value of materials used to derive from recycled and reused content by 2010, rising to 20 per cent
by 2012.