Waste not want not - States Assembly

scheme to tackle priority areas for
investment in waste management. One third
of funds should remain under the current
scheme.
8.19 Five priority areas for investment in waste
are set out in chapter 7, together with details of
how these can be taken forward and their
expected outcomes. The five areas cover:
I. reduction in the rate of growth in waste
volumes;
II. expansion and development of collection
systems and markets for recycling;
III.provision of better information and advice to
households and business;
IV.improvement in the quality and range of
data and research on waste; and
V. promotion of new technologies and
approaches to waste management.
5. New Opportunities Fund (NOF)
8.20 The current round of the New
Opportunities Fund (lottery funds) will provide
£38.7m for England for community sector
waste re-use, recycling and composting
projects. The directions for the programme
were agreed 18 months ago. These funds are
likely to be committed by 2003/4.
8.21 The community sector plays an
increasingly important role in waste
management at a local level. There are several
hundred not-for-profit SMEs and many more
voluntary groups and societies operating 1.2
million household kerbside collections.
New investment and better
management could also help
to reduce the costs of
managing and disposing of
waste
8.22 Ways in which the costs of managing and
disposing of waste could be reduced include:
1. Reducing the volume of waste
produced
The recommendations in this report that will
contribute to reducing waste growth and
associated expenditure are:
● the waste minimisation programme led by
WRAP (recommendation 16);
● producer responsibility initiatives
(recommendation 2); and
● introducing greater incentives for
households to curtail the waste they
produce (recommendation 1).
2. Reducing the unit costs of
recycling and composting through
market expansion and development
In broad terms, a doubling in volumes
handled by the recycling industry could
reduce unit costs by around 15%. 134 The
recommendations in this report that will
contribute to reducing unit costs are:
● advice on best practice kerbside collections,
led by WRAP (recommendation 17);
● expanding the markets for compost and
recyclates, led by WRAP (recommendation
17); and
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SU analysis of segregated kerbside collections based on research by J Hummel
● more bring and better designed civic
amenity sites (recommendation 17).
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