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Back in June last year the Government announced it was to carry a full review of England’s Waste Policy, the main focus of this review was to find cost effective ways to reduce waste, maximise profits from waste management and recycling services and the effects of waste policies in local communities and individual households.
Back in June last year the Government announced it was to carry a full review of England’s Waste Policy, the main focus of this review was to find cost effective ways to reduce waste, maximise profits from waste management and recycling services and the effects of waste policies in local communities and individual households.
The review was officially announced by the Environment Secretary Caroline Spelman during the Futuresource conference, at the time she said:
“There is an economic and environmental urgency to developing the right waste strategy. We have been slowly moving in the right direction with recycling rates. The direction of travel is right – it’s the pace that’s the problem. We need to go faster and we need to go further.”
Eagerly awaited by local authorities and waste management companies across the land, the review was due to be published this month but it was delayed by another month. It is now likely that it will be published during June’s conference of the Chartered Institute of Waste Management, where Caroline Spelman will be delivering the keynote speech on the first day.
Major Points Expected to Be Reviewed
• The effect of waste policies on local communities and individual households, and how local authorities can best work with people to make the best decisions
• Maximising the contribution of the waste and recycling industries to the UK economically and environmentally
• How we work towards the “zero waste economy”, and drastically reduce the amount of waste created and valuable resources sent to landfill, looking at the entire process from source to end of life; and
• New approaches to dealing with commercial waste and promoting ‘responsibility deals’, reducing the amount of waste generated by production and retail
• Landfill Allowance Trading Scheme, or LATS
• Food waste is also likely to play a big part in the review, with a strong chance that authorities will be given financial help to collect it separately
Above all the review’s maim aim is to ensure that the UK is taking the right steps towards creating a ‘zero waste’ economy, where resources are fully valued, and nothing of value gets thrown away.
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