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142 Mayor of London
Proposal
Making waste work in London The Mayor’s Draft Business Waste Management Strategy
Proposal 21 – The London Development Agency will provide information and advice to London’s businesses about how to change
their manufacturing techniques to use resources more efficiently.
Proposal 22 – The Mayor will work with the Environment Agency, London boroughs and private companies providing hazardous waste
management services to ensure London’s businesses reduce the quantity of hazardous waste they are producing and collect
it separately for safe disposal.
Proposal 23 – The Mayor expects the London Strategic Health Authority to take responsibility for implementing the waste aspects
of the Department of Health sustainable development policy.
Proposal 24 – The Mayor will work with the Environment Agency and London boroughs to ensure all London businesses are aware of,
and comply with, their Duty of Care responsibilities.
Proposal 25 – The Mayor expects London boroughs, in partnership with the Environment Agency, to undertake targeted inspection
of businesses, for example in areas prone to incidents of fly-tipping, to ensure they are complying with their Duty of Care responsibilities.
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.
Proposal 27 – The Mayor expects all public sector organisations based in London (including government offices, their departments,
agencies, schools and hospitals) and London's FTSE 250 companies, to sign up to the Mayor of London’s Green Procurement Code.
Proposal 28 – The London Development Agency, including (but not exclusively) through the Mayor of London’s Green Procurement
Code, will work with London’s businesses to adopt responsible purchasing practices, which:
■ use a procurement strategy to ensure that environmental issues are proactively addressed in all aspects of the procurement process
■ specify environmental criteria when commissioning products or packaging.
Proposal 29 – The London Development Agency will promote the take up of standards for environmental management among
London’s businesses.
Proposal 30 – The Mayor will encourage Capital Standards to expand its membership and involve London’s businesses in programmes
that tackle enviro-crime in the public realm.