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8 Mayor of London Making waste work in London The Mayor’s Draft Business Waste Management Strategy conditions by which entrepreneurs can develop businesses to collect, manage and reprocess London’s most abundant resource. 1.19 Chapter four details the way in which sustainable waste management and resource use has financial implications for businesses that should motivate change among the business community. Taking action to prevent and manage waste in line with the waste hierarchy can save businesses money, and being better informed can lead to lower compliance costs and prevent fines for environmental mismanagement. 1.20 Chapter five demonstrates how businesses can take their environmental performance to the next level. It discusses waste prevention, through product and packaging design and developing green procurement policies and procedures. It focuses on managing the environmental impact of a business through an environmental management system and on cascading that environmental excellence to other businesses by engaging with suppliers. Actions such as these can help businesses retain and win new contracts, access niche markets and act as an incentive for businesses to change. 1.21 Chapter six explains how the Mayor intends to lead by example. The Mayor and the GLA group’s activities produce business waste and impact on London’s sustainability. It is crucial that the Mayor’s operations are exemplary. The Mayor will stimulate the market for more sustainable goods and services through the GLA group’s procurement, pioneer sustainable waste management initiatives and demonstrate the business case for environmental excellence. 1.22 Included in the appendices are contact details, or document links, to all the organisations and guidance documents mentioned in this strategy. As such, the strategy can act as a starting point for London’s businesses to take action to implement the proposals and as a point of future reference. 1.23 Case studies are peppered throughout the strategy to support assertions made within the text. An index is included in Appendix 4. Their purpose is to illustrate ways in which some businesses have already implemented and profited from sustainable resource management and to demonstrate the business case for improved environmental performance. The Mayor wishes to thank the case study organisations for agreeing to have their work showcased in the strategy; they have inspired its development and it is hoped they will motivate others to rise to the challenge.
Making waste work in London The Mayor’s Draft Business Waste Management Strategy Mayor of London 9 2 Setting the scene: the context for this strategy Introduction 2.1 The strategy’s overall objective is to reduce the negative environmental impacts of the inefficient use of resources in a growing economy. It seeks to ensure that the consumption of resources and their associated impacts do not exceed environmental limits and aims to break the linkages between economic growth and waste production. 2.2 This chapter explains the foundation of the strategy, the waste hierarchy. It then examines the challenge of delivering a meaningful strategy for London’s businesses, which are not a single homogenous group but have very different needs and priorities according to their size, sector, ownership and location. It also sets the strategy in its legislative context and identifies the links between this strategy and the Mayor’s vision for London and his strategic priorities.
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