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36 Mayor of London Making waste work in London The Mayor’s Draft Business Waste Management Strategy 3.23 To make progress against the issues raised throughout this chapter, the Mayor calls on the government to ensure that effective fiscal and legislative instruments are in place to stimulate resource productivity and sustainable waste management among London’s businesses. Proposal 1 The Mayor calls on the government to ensure that effective fiscal and legislative instruments are in place to stimulate resource productivity and sustainable waste management among London’s businesses including: ■ a clear commitment to continue to escalate the landfill tax significantly after 2010 ■ a requirement for auditable evidence to support the implementation of pre-treatment requirements for landfilled waste from October 2007 ■ statutory recycling and composting targets and indicators for municipal waste rather than household waste ■ recycling and composting targets and indicators for non-municipal business waste to complement the national target for the reduction of commercial and industrial waste going to landfill ■ statutory diversion targets and measures to reduce the quantity of non-municipal biodegradable waste disposed of to landfill.
Making waste work in London The Mayor’s Draft Business Waste Management Strategy Mayor of London 37 3B Making producers responsible Introduction 3.24 Producer responsibility places some of the costs for the management of products when they become waste, onto the producers that place the products on the market. This is to encourage waste reduction through product design and to stimulate high levels of reuse and recycling of products at the end of their useful life. 3.25 A producer responsibility policy underlies the approach taken in implementing the European Directive on Packaging and Packaging Waste in the UK and is the approach taken in the European Directive on Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE) and End of Life Vehicles (ELV) Directives, as well as the forthcoming directive on Batteries and Accumulators. These products were identified in the European Union’s Fifth Environment Action Programme 81 as priority waste streams because of growing concern about their impact on the environment. The Environment Agency is charged with monitoring industry compliance with these producer responsibility regimes. Packaging waste 3.26 For many of the government’s priority material streams 82 (paper, glass, aluminium and steel, plastics and wood), legislation already exists to encourage recycling. Under the Producer Responsibility Obligations (Packaging Waste) Regulations (1997) obligated producers of packaging are required to bear the costs of collection, sorting, treatment and recycling or recovery. Producers do not have to collect and recycle their own materials, instead they must carry out their producer responsibility by purchasing packaging waste recovery notes (PRNs) or their export equivalent (PERNs). Case study 4 - Failing to comply with legislation results in fine A luxury car company was ordered to pay more than £27,000 in April 2006 for failing to comply with the Packaging Waste Regulations. Previously advised that it was below the 50 tonne threshold, the company should have continued to monitor its activities, particularly since it has recorded a marked increase in sales since regulations were introduced. Source: Environment Agency: DF/57/06 3.27 The Mayor has concerns about the ongoing implementation of the packaging regulations, in particular that they fail to support local recycling and reprocessing and do not consider the quality of recycling that is undertaken.
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