Commercial and industrial waste aims published

Tuesday 13 October 2009 Waste Management News
Plans to trial a trade waste bring bank and provide more money for councils to provide trade waste collection services have been announced today as part of a statement of aims and actions for commercial and industrial waste in England.
However, the document - published by the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs as part of a wider raft of waste measures does not suggest setting any targets for diverting the waste stream from landfill - despite it accounting for more than twice as much waste than that in the household stream. This is about 68 million tonnes a year compared to 25 million tonnes.
The policy statement is designed to address areas of the Waste Strategy 2007 which the government has been criticised for neglecting in the past.
It explains that a key part of the government's vision is to achieve a greater degree of convergence in policy between C&I waste and household waste and outlines what the government is planning to achieve in this area - particularly in the context of the advent of carbon budgets, the economic downturn and the revised Waste Framework Directive.
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