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Mike Read writes in Resource magazine. 
The Courtauld Commitment is a partnership between WRAP and 31 major retailers, brand owners, manufacturers and their packaging suppliers, to reduce waste. Unfortunately, despite all the media coverage on plastic bags, the 21 retailers signed up to the Commitment have reported a disappointing 7% reduction in the first year following their agreement to work on the issue.
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.
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.
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.
This report presents the outcomes of a scoping study for a possible waste prevention 'network'. The study comprised a consultation exercise, workshops and discussions held between January and July 2007. The recommendation is not for a conventional 'network', but for a pro-active 'evidence
network', running in parallel to a waste prevention 'development
alliance'.
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