Waste not want not - States Assembly

6. ECONOMIC AND REGULATORY FRAMEWORK
Summary
Giving clear signals within the right economic and regulatory framework
is crucial to securing a long-term and sustainable change in waste
management.
Action is needed in the following five areas to put the right long term
economic and regulatory framework in place:
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greater incentives to reduce the rate of growth in waste volumes. This
requires mechanisms that reward households for producing less
waste and recycling more; encouragement of voluntary producer
responsibility obligations to produce less waste; and greater support
for eco-friendly design;
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new measures to encourage re-use, such as deposit-refund schemes
and designing civic amenity sites for re-use;
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the promotion of more recycling through support for the expansion
of markets in recyclates; reviewing the use of BSI Standards to
facilitate the use of recycled materials; and more proactive green
procurement by central and local government;
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encouragement of composting; and
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greater incentives to move away from landfill including a substantial
increase in the landfill tax and more rigorously enforced fines for flytipping
and other waste crimes.
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