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in place. This is very often to enable the government to reach targets or goals. The
variety of these funding streams are shown by the following examples:
Eco Eco-Innovation Eco Eco Innovation Innovation Fund Fund
The European Commission runs an Eco-Innovation fund, which seeks to further,
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“All forms of innovation which reduce environmental impacts and/or
optimising the use of resources”.
Construction Construction Waste Waste Recycling Recycling Infrastructure Infrastructure Capital Capital Support Support Programme
Programme
WRAP’s Construction Waste Recycling Infrastructure Capital Support Programme aims
to boost capacity for recycling construction waste. It specifically focuses on the noninert
fractions of construction and demolition waste and aims to stimulate ‘step
change in the collection, segregation, recovery and recycling rates of materials’. 1130
Defra Defra Anaerobic Anaerobic Digestion Demonstration Programme
The five key aims of this programme are:
� Maximising the cost effective production of biogas;
� Maximising the environmental benefits from the use of anaerobic digestions
and its products;
� Maximising the potential of anaerobic digestion to reduce the carbon footprint
of the food supply chain;
� Maximising the opportunity for the injection of biomethane into the gas grid;
and
� Maximising the potential of anaerobic digestion to reduce the carbon footprint
of water treatment infrastructure.
Californian Californian Californian Construction Construction and and Demolition Demolition Management
Management
The CIWMB provides the Californian public and private sector with grants in order to
enable the State’s waste reduction, reuse and recycling targets to be achieved. There
are 11 main grant programs, of which the Sustainable Building Grant program is of
most relevance to the construction sector and the Deconstruction Grant Programme
which only ran for 1 year in 1999.
Californian Californian Environmental Environmental Protection Protection Agency Agency (EPA)
(EPA)
The Californian EPA has provided grants under their Innovations Initiative which aims
to fund work with a greater emphasis on research. They have funded innovative pilot
projects which focus on development of new approaches towards waste minimisation,
energy recovery and recycling.
1130 WRAP (2006) WRAP Targets C&D Waste with New Capital Funding Competition, Available:
http://www.wrap.org.uk/wrap_corporate/news/wrap_targets_cd.html
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