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FOREWORD BY THE PRIME MINISTER I am intensely proud of the central achievement of this Government – strong economic growth, based on sound fundamentals. Unemployment, inflation and mortgage rates are at their lowest level for decades. In large part this has been accompanied by environmental improvements – cleaner air, drinking water, river quality and bathing waters; falling emissions of greenhouse gases. But higher incomes and consumption have brought with them increased waste, and associated problems of disposal. Household waste is now growing at a rate of 3% each year, faster than growth in the economy as a whole. On average every person in the UK now produces about seven times their own weight in waste a year. Around 20% of the food we buy off supermarket shelves goes straight to the bin. At the moment most of this waste is buried in landfill sites. This is simply not sustainable. In some areas we are running out of space. And there are major environmental considerations – landfill is responsible, for example, for 25% of our emissions of methane, a major greenhouse gas. But the most important reason for changing direction is that the current position is, literally, wasteful. Half of the waste we generate could be reused and recycled, and transformed from a problem into an asset. At current rates of growth the amount of household rubbish will double by 2020, and cost £3.2bn per year to dispose of. That would mean spending an extra £1.6bn a year on waste management. So we need first to reduce the amount of waste we create. We have improved our recycling record over the past decade. But not by as much as we or previous governments wanted. It is excellent that some local authorities are really starting to deliver on recycling. But the majority are not, and many are not even trying seriously. We need now a step change. This is why I asked the Strategy Unit to look at how we could do better. Their work has involved a thorough analysis of the problem and of the potential solutions. They have consulted experts in the field and examined examples of successful waste management both at home and abroad. FOREWORD BY THE PRIME MINISTER 3
The report shows clearly that a different approach to waste will pay economic and environmental dividends; that the focus of strategy needs to be on reducing, re-using and recycling waste, with reformed incentives and regulations; and that government, local authorities, industry and households, all need to play a part in containing the problem. The report is offered not as a statement of government policy, but as a contribution to the debate. But I accept its diagnosis. We must rise to its challenge. WASTE NOT, WANT NOT 4
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ANNEX A. THE ROLE OF THE STRATEGY U
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