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42 Mayor of London Making waste work in London The Mayor’s Draft Business Waste Management Strategy Proposal 2 The Mayor calls on the government to ensure that: ■ businesses are aware of, and comply with, their producer responsibility obligations ■ the Environment Agency is adequately resourced to enforce the regulations ■ challenging recycling targets are set for producer responsibility legislation ■ the packaging regulations are amended to favour local recycling and reprocessing and carbon positive recycling ■ statutory measures are established to implement producer responsibility legislation rather than persisting with voluntary agreements ■ obligated businesses adequately compensate London boroughs operating schemes for producer responsibility wastes ■ the government and obligated businesses run effective communication campaigns about producer responsibility legislation to raise and maintain awareness of consumers’ responsibilities.
Making waste work in London The Mayor’s Draft Business Waste Management Strategy Mayor of London 43 3C Increasing awareness and providing information It’s not what you know, it’s who you know 3.48 Making it easier for businesses to recycle by supporting the development of convenient and cost effective recycling services should stimulate demand for those services. However, while demand is low, there is little incentive for the waste management industry to develop and expand their waste management services in line with the waste hierarchy. This is particularly the case for the private sector, which does not have the same legislative drivers as local authorities and is generally driven by profit and therefore by demand. During the London Assembly consultation, representatives from the waste industry argued that the lack of business recycling services in London is a failure of market demand not market supply. 3.49 To inform research undertaken for the London Assembly, a number of small businesses were asked what drove their current approach to their waste management. For those that were doing nothing or little, the responses (Table 3) ranged from a lack of services to costs. Table 3: Reasons given by businesses that recycle little or no waste, for their inactivity Reason % * No services provided by my local authority 42 Will cost us money 20 Don’t know 18 No time (either to look into it or to actually separate their wastes) 12 No space 10 Source: SMEs and Sustainable Waste Management in London Research Findings, GfK Business, July 2007, page 40 *Note: Respondents could give more than one reason. 3.50 There are multiple funding routes for environmental initiatives (such as the European Union, UK government, local authorities, business associations and non-governmental organisations), which have led to a fragmented series of initiatives addressing business waste management and business environmental performance. The LDA found that over 20 organisations are working in each London borough to provide ‘sustainability’ information and advice to London’s businesses, often independently of each other 96 . As a result, the Environment Agency believe that the majority of small businesses do not know where to turn for information and advice on environmental issues 97 . It is crucial that businesses are able to easily access advice and information about services
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