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48 Mayor of London Making waste work in London The Mayor’s Draft Business Waste Management Strategy ■ ensuring their partners integrate information about resource efficiency and sustainable waste management into their business support programmes. 3.66 Some businesses, large and small, are already well ahead, implementing innovative programmes and striving for higher and more wide-reaching environmental targets. The Mayor wants to work with these businesses in London to establish a cross-sector business-led council. These environmental champions will forge the path by which London can achieve environmental excellence. 3.67 The council would offer strong leadership and disseminate best practice to the wider business community. The council’s activities will encourage all businesses to take action to use resources and manage waste sustainably and reduce the business community’s contribution to climate change. The council could link to the London Sustainable Development Commission’s London Leaders, the UK Business Council for Sustainable Development and the International Panel on the Sustainable Use of Natural Resources proposed in the Thematic Strategy on the Sustainable Use of Natural Resources 105 and WRAP’s Courtauld Commitment. Proposal 4 The Mayor will establish a London business council to bring together London’s business leaders to champion resource productivity and sustainable waste management within a business environment.
Making waste work in London The Mayor’s Draft Business Waste Management Strategy Mayor of London 49 3D Facilitating the development of collection services The collection conundrum 3.68 The collection of business waste for recycling or treatment is complicated by two issues: ■ service providers are found in the public, private and third sectors and each sector has very different reasons for collecting, or not collecting, business waste ■ waste producers have differing motivations for reconsidering their current arrangements and looking for more sustainable options. It is small businesses that are a particular concern with regards effectively changing waste behaviour. Medium and large businesses are more likely to be motivated by economic drivers to put in place waste reduction and recycling systems since they generally produce larger volumes of waste. 3.69 Currently, around one million tonnes of business waste (largely from the commercial sector) is collected and managed by London’s boroughs. The remaining 13.8 million tonnes of business waste is managed by the private sector. Therefore, although local authorities play a key role, particularly for small businesses, they will never dominate the business waste service market. 3.70 Local authorities’ roles are complicated by: ■ the private sector, which is likely to cherry pick businesses that produce more waste, leaving local authorities with a less profitable portfolio ■ the Landfill Allowance Trading Scheme (LATS), which acts as a disincentive for local authorities to undertake a role in providing business waste and recycling services and may make local authority services uncompetitive ■ geographical limitations, which is a hindrance for companies with sites across a number of boroughs. Instead they will seek a contract with a waste management company that can operate across borough boundaries. 3.71 These factors mean that businesses cannot rely on their local authority for a waste or recycling service. In London, a recent survey reported that 27 of the 33 London boroughs provide trade waste services and 15 offer a trade waste recycling service 106 . 3.72 Small businesses, particularly, look to their local authority to manage their waste. In a survey conducted for the London Assembly, 42 per cent of businesses claimed they do not recycle because there were no services
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