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54 Mayor of London Making waste work in London The Mayor’s Draft Business Waste Management Strategy 3E Facilitating the development of infrastructure Introduction 3.85 The London Plan self-sufficiency targets predict that London will be managing 20.6 million tonnes of waste in 2020 115 (Table 4). Targets for the percentage of the total waste produced that should be reused, recycled or composted proposed in the London Plan have been adopted as Policy 1 of this strategy, while targets for the amount of waste to be managed in London have been adopted as Policy 2. Table 4 Net self-sufficiency: waste to be managed in London Amount of London’s waste to be managed within London 2010 2015 2020 amount % amount % amount % million million million tonnes tonnes tonnes Municipal solid waste 2.4 50 3.9 75 4.6 80 Commercial and industrial 5.9 75 7.1 80 8.4 85 Construction, demolition and excavation 7.4 95 8.2 95 7.7 95 All wastes 15.8 75 19.2 80 20.6 85 Source: The London Plan Spatial Development Strategy for Greater London: Housing Provision Targets, Waste and Minerals Alterations, Greater London Authority, December 2006 Made in London 3.86 Achieving the London Plan recycling targets will revolutionise waste management in London from a situation in which waste is exported for disposal in landfill to a situation in which London is processing waste and recycled materials and exporting recycled (i.e. secondary) materials and recycled products. Developing markets for recycled materials helps ensure that recycling is economically viable. 3.87 The UK has traditionally been an importer of raw materials but the increase in recycling means that it now has its own stock of resources. London’s waste paper, for example, has been called an ’urban forest’ 116 . If material can be recovered and reprocessed more cheaply than primary production then a chain of new economic activity is opened up, which has been termed the ‘secondary materials economy’. 3.88 However, instead of leading the change towards higher recycling and building an industry behind it, ’the UK has been a follower’ 117 . Waste
Making waste work in London The Mayor’s Draft Business Waste Management Strategy Mayor of London 55 is still treated as waste rather than as a resource of materials and energy, and recycling collections have not been developed in tandem with reprocessing infrastructure and recycled material industries. 3.89 In 1998, research by Ecologika asserted that ’there is clearly the potential for a significant increase in the capture rate of London’s recycled materials and an opportunity for reprocessing industries to be established in and around London‘ 118 . To evidence this claim in the significantly different economic environment that has developed over the last decade, the GLA and LDA commissioned research 119 into the ways in which the Mayor and LDA could intervene to develop appropriate reprocessing infrastructure within London. The report concludes that there are specific opportunities for London to develop recycling and reprocessing infrastructure within London and in partnership with surrounding regions. Three approaches were recommended for London: 1 Developing reprocessing infrastructure with a relatively small land-use requirement and low water demands. The development in the London Borough of Barking and Dagenham, in 2008, of the first plastics reprocessing facility in the UK to produce food-grade PET and the first facility in the world to produce food-grade HDPE, by Closed Loop London, is an example of where this approach has already been successful in London. 2 Supporting the development of innovative down-cycling technologies and markets for these products, such as the successful Day Aggregates glass recycling facility in the London Borough of Greenwich. Other opportunities may include mixed paper for use in insulation materials, such as Excel Fibres in South Wales, or mixed plastics for use in drainage material, such as Econoplas in Scarborough. Whilst this element of the recycling industry may not be regarded with the highest priority for London because the focus should always be on high value applications, it should be recognised as having an important role to play. 3 Sorting and cleaning materials to produce a higher quality - and thus higher price - output for sale to reprocessors may enable a greater proportion of material to be suitable for domestic reprocessing. This is important because it would reduce reliance on potentially volatile global markets and reduce the distances that materials are transported. Getting a higher price for every tonne of material collected in London would additionally bring greater revenues to those collecting and managing the materials and stimulate further investment. 3.90 Increasingly (and particularly in the municipal waste stream) materials are being collected co-mingled and sorted for recycling using Materials
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