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The Science and Technology Select Committee of the House of Lords Science has announced and inquiry to look at sustainable approaches to waste reduction.
The inquiry will focus on the first level of the waste hierarchy, waste reduction, and will look into ways in which products and production processes can be made more sustainable and therefore produce less waste. The Committee is now inviting evidence.
Waste reduction the most important environmental issue.
According to a survey conducted for Dow Corning, waste
reduction is now considered the single most important environmental issue by companies in the USA, Brazil, Italy, Germany and China.
Key Performance Indicators?
The Local Government
White Paper set out a new performance framework for local government. The backbone of the new framework will be around 200 indicators covering all Government's
priorities for local delivery. One option considered is the possibility of setting statutory levels for waste not reused, recycled or composted per head.
The voluntary and community sector have played a vital role in encouraging recycling, and have an important task ahead of them in encouraging waste prevention. For groups that have got used to generating income from collecting recyclable materials it may not be immediately apparent how to get involved in waste prevention. However, waste prevention is in many ways about behaviour change, and the third sector is singularly well placed to offer behaviour change services to local authorities and others.
The huge benefits that waste prevention offers climate change mitigation may well in due course be of great value to the community and voluntary sector. How long before recycling credits are replaced by marketable carbon credits?
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