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82 Mayor of London<br />

Making waste work in London The Mayor’s <strong>Draft</strong> <strong>Business</strong> <strong>Waste</strong> Management <strong>Strategy</strong><br />

Case study 27 - East end pub sets recycling and composting target<br />

Working with the London Sustainability Exchange, a pub in East London<br />

has sought to dramatically improve its recycling and composting rate.<br />

With an annual turnover of £888,000, the pub already benefits from<br />

recycling over 200 wheelie bins of glass each year. Currently spending<br />

over £4,000 each year on waste disposal, following an audit, additional<br />

materials have been identified that could bring the recycling rate up to<br />

15 per cent, generating savings of up to £600. Approximately six per<br />

cent of the waste that is left after recycling is food waste, which by<br />

investigating on-site or community composting opportunities could<br />

save the pub a further £200 each year.<br />

Source: London Sustainability Exchange<br />

Proposal 17 London’s businesses should conduct waste audits to:<br />

■ establish waste prevention and reuse systems<br />

■ identify the materials streams that they can recycle or compost<br />

and seek recycling and composting services alongside their waste<br />

management contracts.

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