Environment and Community - In Depth

We are consuming the earth’s natural resources at an increasingly unsustainable rate. We have to change our methods of waste management if we continue with our lifestyles of high consumerism.

The Government have highlighted key proposals for action (www.defra.gov.uk) and now have outlined their ideas for improving waste management.

Incentivise efforts to reduce, re-use, recycle waste and recover energy from waste;

Reform regulation to drive the reduction of waste and diversion from landfill while reducing costs to compliant business and the regulators;

Target action on materials, products and sectors with the greatest scope for improving environmental and economic outcomes;

Stimulate investment in collection, recycling and recovery infrastructure, and markets for recovered materials that will maximise the value of materials and energy recovered; and

Improve national, regional and local governance, with a clearer performance and institutional framework to deliver better coordinated action and services on the ground.

 

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