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44 Mayor of London Making waste work in London The Mayor’s Draft Business Waste Management Strategy and that services are developed in a coordinated manner to avoid duplication and to provide consistency across London. 3.51 The LDA is already helping to improve coordination of environmental business support in London and to deliver advice and support on waste and resource management issues to more businesses. The Business Resource Efficiency and Waste (BREW) programme is funded by Defra using Landfill Tax credits. The programme provides information and advice to businesses to help them manage their resources more productively. There are a number of national partners delivering a valuable programme of free, confidential and independent advice to UK businesses. The Regional Development Agencies are coordinating the delivery of the BREW programme at the regional level and carrying out strategic resource efficiency projects in the regions. The LDA is providing a coordinating role to ensure projects fit with the wider goals for London. 3.52 The LDA will continue to play a key role in providing this coordination by delivering support through Business Link London in conjunction with the London Environmental Support Service (LESS). LESS is a pan-London environmental business support service funded by the LDA and was launched in November 2006. Regional development agencies are tasked with promoting streamlined advice on resource efficiency, delivered through Business Links, as part of the wider programme to reduce the complexity of business support and better tailor services to business needs 98 . The LDA is developing LESS to provide an enhanced business resource efficiency service that is consistent with, and coordinated through, the Business Support Simplification Programme 99 . The LDA is raising awareness within the business community, and with those who have contact with businesses, of the London Environmental Support Service and developing partnerships with environmental support providers to improve the referrals process. 3.53 LESS helps businesses improve their environmental performance by: ■ providing businesses, whether as part of their start-up phase or once their business has started operating, with a simple way to access free, environmental advice, support and services ■ developing and promoting best practice examples to demonstrate the business opportunities of sustainable resource and waste management ■ promoting the ‘Enworks’ tool for businesses to collect and manage their operations data, including waste and resource management data through a specific module
Making waste work in London The Mayor’s Draft Business Waste Management Strategy Mayor of London 45 ■ maximising the market penetration of publicly funded environmental programmes in London, such as Envirowise, the Carbon Trust and LDA-funded regional initiatives ■ identifying where support providers operate to ensure minimal duplication and maximise the overall effectiveness of programmes operating in London. 3.54 Most small businesses, however, see their local authority as the most credible channel for information and advice 100 and if no information is available they may believe they are doing enough 101 . In light of this, the London Assembly make the following recommendations to ensure small businesses are able to access appropriate support through LESS: ■ links should be secured to and from the LESS website to relevant pages on local authority websites ■ the LDA should promote LESS to staff working in local authority call centres and one-stop-shops. 3.55 To progress these recommendations, the LDA will be working in conjunction with LESS and Business Link London to establish much stronger links with local authorities so that they refer businesses to LESS. 3.56 WRAP is developing an on-line search tool to help small businesses find recycling services. The directory will be linked to their website and provides a postcode based search facility. Service providers will be able to add and amend information on their services and a regional advisor will maintain the directory. This service was launched in September 2007, and is a really positive addition to London’s business support service portfolio. The call to action 3.57 Increasing numbers of businesses are seeking out support from bodies such as Business Link London and LESS, but it is still essential to raise and maintain awareness among businesses of their legal environmental responsibilities and the significant and negative economic impact of unsustainable resource use. 3.58 It is significant that 18 per cent 102 of small businesses that do not recycle do not know why they are not more active. Evidently they have not thought about the issue or realised that they could do more. Small businesses are largely self-reliant and may not think they need any advice as their existing processes run well. They are less likely to be prompted to think about their waste, as they are outside regulatory mechanisms such as producer responsibility 103 .
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