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Making waste work in London The Mayor’s Draft Business Waste Management Strategy
3.81 Another opportunity for local authorities is to collect business waste and
recycled materials at their reuse and recycling centres, however, the current
network of reuse and recycling centres is not sufficient to offer a
comprehensive service Londonwide. Local authorities should investigate
the capacity of their reuse and recycling centre network to collect business
waste and identify sites for new centres to build capacity within London.
Proposal 5 The Mayor expects London boroughs to offer competitive waste and
recycling collection services for local businesses, in partnership where
necessary, including:
■ recycling services of at least the same materials as their household
collections
■ organic kitchen waste collections
■ accepting business waste for reuse or recycling at their reuse and
recycling centres
■ actively promoting their services to businesses.
3.82 Local authorities will only ever be responsible for a small proportion of
business waste, therefore the private and third sectors must also take
responsibility to offer reuse and recycling services to businesses. Waste
Strategy 2007 tasks the waste management industry with creating a
’modern, efficient and environmentally responsible industry working
closely with businesses, local authorities and regulators to produce the
best balance of environmental, economic and social outcomes’ 113 .
3.83 Support is increasingly being given to the waste management industry to
expand their businesses and tailor their services to suit particular business
sizes and sectors. For example, WRAP has been funding service providers
to develop their recycling services for small businesses and the LDA
is supporting the development of food waste collection schemes 114 .
3.84 Organisations and services supported by WRAP, the LDA and the BREW
Centre to develop recycling services for businesses must be sustainable
in the long-term. Providing free or subsidised services as trials could set
false expectations and undermine services that are run at cost to
customers. Causing customers to swap on and off a range of free
or subsidised services will not achieve the principle objective; to increase
demand and expand the market. Further, results from trials will not
be indicative of the reality of the success of an unsubsidised service
in the long run.