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advisory service whereby an experienced consultant will visit organisations for
more tailored advice. By early 2009, more than 100 businesses had signed up
to the website. 389
� Case Case Case Study Study Study Implementation
Implementation Implementation (CSI) – this includes finding examples of best
practice in business and promoting these, by illustrating what cost and
material savings are possible by adopting simple changes to business
processes and practices.
The Local Authority Prevention Demonstration (LAPD) (LAPD) Programme
Programme
There are 14 local authorities participating in the LAPD Programme, which was
launched in July 2006. These local authorities have to date received €885,000 in
grant aid to allow dedicated staff to work on local prevention projects. 390 The aim of
LAPD is to assist local authorities to design and implement local integrated waste
prevention programmes and projects. In many instances, local authority staff have
been specifically seconded to work on prevention projects. In total, 27 local authority
staff have been directly involved in the projects. The idea is to develop capacity in
local authorities such that their staff can in turn enable organisations, including their
own, to prevent waste. 391
18.2 Policy Context and Reason for Introduction
Waste policy in Ireland took a step forward in March 2002 with the publication of the
policy document, “Preventing and Recycling Waste: Delivering Change” which was
specifically focused on waste prevention and recycling. This policy document sets out
an agenda of initiatives designed to achieve progress at the top of the waste
hierarchy, in terms of preventing waste arising in the first place and achieving
improved levels of recycling of waste that does arise.
Accordingly, this Policy Statement:
� Highlights the necessary disciplines that must be imposed within waste
management systems to secure real progress on waste prevention, re-use and
recovery; and
� Recognises the need to reverse the trend of increasing waste generation and to
decouple waste generation from economic growth.
To achieve the above goals it was proposed to establish a Core Prevention Team
within the EPA to implement the NWPP.
389 EPA (2008) National Waste Prevention Programme, Prevention Plan 2009 – 2012, Wexford: EPA.
390 EPA (2008) National Waste Prevention Programme, Prevention Plan 2009 – 2012, Wexford: EPA.
391 EPA, National Waste Prevention Programme, Fourth Annual Report 2007/08.