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Box 21: SPG/WRAP proposed targets* for government green procurement Targets for paper White copier paper – recycled fibre should comprise a minimum of 35% of the weight of paper procured in any one year by 2003/4, increasing to a minimum of 75% by 2006/7. Tissue (eg hygiene products) to be made from 100% recycled material from 2003/4. Packaging to consist of 100% recycled materials from 2003/4. Targets for construction materials For aggregates, a target of at least 10% recycled (by weight) by 2003/4, rising to 20% by 2006/7. For all other construction materials, a target of at least 10% (by value) by 2003/4, rising to 25% by 2005/6. (Suggested targets apply per project and would not be applicable to projects under £500,000 in value.) *As of December 2002, targets are still being finalised. Further details on these targets, including the reasoning behind them, are included in Annex E on Greening Government procurement, available on the Strategy Unit web site at www.strategy.gov.uk. 6.29 In local government, sustainable procurement is also used inconsistently and is part of a broader issue of procurement management. The Byatt review of local authority procurement skills 90 recommended that every authority should have in place a formal documented procurement strategy. According to the Audit Commission, 91 80% of procurement strategies are inadequate, either because they are not finalised, not implemented, or do not cover all the necessary issues. Byatt also highlighted the importance of local authorities working in partnership with each other to negotiate contracts more effectively. 6.30 The SU supports the work that WRAP is undertaking with the LGA and IDeA 92 to promote the take-up of green procurement by local authorities and the training of procurement officers. This work should continue and be extended to the pooling of knowledge, perhaps through regionally based procurement units. It is also suggested that formal mechanisms are put in place by Green Ministers 93 to roll-out best practice tools developed by SPG to local government. Recommendation 7: OGC and other Departments should work through SPG and WRAP to finalise targets for the use of recycled materials as set out in Box 21. Departments should put in place a trained Green Procurement Officer (either combined with a finance officer’s role, or as a separate post). Consideration should also be given to setting specific waste 90 Ian Byatt chaired a review of the state of procurement skills and practices in English local government in Summer 2000, taking evidence from 35 local authorities. Research in support of Byatt by the DETR/LGA found that only 27% of English local authorities had a written procurement strategy in place as at September 2000. 50% were in progress 91 Audit Commission Competitive Procurement (March 2002) 92 Local Government Association (LGA) and the Improvement and Development Agency (IDeA). IDeA is an advocate of best practice in local government and aims to develop practical and innovative solutions to improve local government communications and performance. Further information about IDeA is available on their web site at www.idea.gov.uk 93 The Ministerial Sub-Committee of Green Ministers (ENV(G)). This is made up of 20 Ministers from every government department ECONOMIC AND REGULATORY FRAMEWORK 69
minimisation targets for office waste streams, for example, for office paper. Recommendation 8: ODPM and the LGA should consider setting voluntary environmental procurement targets for local authorities to encourage the purchase of more recycled goods and services, to minimise waste volumes and to encourage them to recycle more of their waste. These targets might be incentivised in a number of ways, for example through links to implementing service area targets within Sustainability Action Plans or re-instating waste in Beacon status for councils. Option (e): targets for local authorities 6.31 The Government has set statutory performance standards for each Waste Collection Authority and Waste Disposal Authority. These have been set at a level to ensure that each authority contributes proportionately to the achievement of the national targets in 2003/4 and 2005. 94 In addition there are nine Best Value Indicators for waste management. 95 6.32 The statutory targets are intended to drive up the rate of recycling but they risk creating perverse incentives. Since the targets are expressed as percentages of total waste tonnages, there is a particularly strong incentive to recycle the heaviest items such as green waste, but this may not be the economically or environmentally most efficient outcome. Moreover, they risk encouraging the collection of additional green waste, which could be more cost-effectively managed through home composting. 96 There are no explicit targets for waste reduction, despite Waste Strategy 2000 stating that these should be a priority. 97 6.33 The nine Best Value Indicators (see Box 22) also contain various anomalies: ● ● they are based on the tonnage collected with no indicator of success in reducing waste collected; they include an indicator for ‘the cost of waste disposal per tonne’. But costs could be reduced by disposing of more waste at landfill sites. WASTE NOT, WANT NOT 94 Taking performance from the 1998/99 baseline data, these standards equate for many authorities to doubling their 1998/99 recycling rate by 2003/4. Audit Commission Waste Management: Guidance for improving services 95 see http://www.bvpi.gov.uk 96 Where local authorities are offering green waste collections, there is evidence of a significant increase in waste growth compared to those that do not. Parfitt J. (2002) 97 Evidence suggests a correlation between waste reduction and those authorities that have encouraged home composting. However, in some cases local authorities have encouraged waste growth through issuing 240 litre bins, compared to the normal bin size of 140 litres, and proposing that waste is only collected fortnightly even though pressure to maintain service levels has often resulted in weekly collections. Parfitt J. (2002) 70
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