Waste not want not - States Assembly

WASTE NOT, WANT NOT
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2. Strategic investment measures
● waste minimisation measures – including
extension of home composting;
● roll out kerbside recycling to the majority
of households, and increase the number of
bring sites and well designed civic amenity
sites;
● information and education campaigns to
support these programmes;
● better waste data; and
● incentives for the take up of the wider
range of technologies that exist.
3. Funding and delivery
● the Challenge Fund should be retained and
opened up to the private sector;
● the LTCS should be reformed to provide
more support for the strategic waste
investment measures outlined in this
report;
● DEFRA’s waste management function
should be strengthened;
● a multi-disciplinary operational task-force
should be set up to help local authorities
deliver;
● the role of WRAP should be extended to
minimising and recycling waste (focusing
on organics) as well as boosting recyclate
markets;
● improved incentives are needed to
encourage tiers of local authorities and
adjacent local authorities to work together
to increase efficiency and realise economies
of scale;
● ensure the planning system and associated
guidance can deliver the new facilities that
will be required;
● set up a high level steering board to drive
forward implementation; and
● ensure that the full range of appropriate
interventions are used when local
authorities fail to deliver on their waste
plans and targets.
Key actions needed between
now and 2005
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decide the phasing of increases in the landfill
tax and how tax revenues will be recycled to
assist industry and local authorities move to
more sustainable waste management;
make decisions on an incineration tax;
agree adequate resourcing of the strategy set
out in this report and the allocation of
reformed LTCS and other funding streams;
put in place the multi-disciplinary operational
task force to help local authorities deliver;
expand WRAP’s role and fund its programme
of reduction, re-use and recycling and the
education that goes with it;
expand the role of Envirowise for commercial
waste;
adequately resource waste management in
DEFRA; and
invest in the infrastructure required to deliver
the SU plan.
Key decision points/milestones
9.2 Waste Strategy 2000 is due to be reviewed
in 2005. The key decision point will be 2010. If
we have made no significant progress by then,
very urgent and costly action will be required to
meet the EU Landfill Directive by 2020.
9.3 Key milestones will be:
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progress in reducing waste growth by end
2006;