Waste not want not - States Assembly

9. SUMMARY OF KEY RECOMMENDATIONS AND
ACTION PLAN
Summary
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Successful implementation of the strategy and measures in this report
requires a clear action plan.
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For each recommendation, this chapter sets out who should have
lead responsibility, what the timetable for implementation should be,
and how success should be measured in each case.
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The Secretary of State for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
should have overall long term responsibility for the implementation
of the strategy
9.1 Figure 19 summarises the key
recommendations in this report and the order in
which they need to be carried out. The key is to
signal the changed economic framework,
provide time, funds and incentives for new
waste treatment methods to develop, and then,
if necessary to provide incentives or regulation
to boost the use of the new infrastructure.
The table of recommendations gives more detail
of the actions to be taken, who is responsible
for them and how progress is to be measured.
The key recommendations in this
report are:
1. Economic and regulatory framework
● freedom for LAs to introduce household
incentive schemes to encourage waste
reduction and recycling, if they wish to do
so;
● extend voluntary producer responsibility for
waste reduction and recycling;
● incentives for the re-use of goods;
● economic instruments to encourage
environmentally friendly products to reduce
hazardous/non-recyclable waste;
● promote use of secondary resources;
● raise the landfill tax to £35 a tonne in the
medium term;
● make space in new housing developments
for storage for recycling;
● increase government green procurement;
● new targets for waste
minimisation/disposal;
● review the case for banning the use of
landfill/incineration for some materials in
2006/7;
● higher fines and more rigorous
enforcement of fines for fly-tipping; and
● keep the case for an incineration tax under
review.
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