Review of waste policy announced - June 2010

The Government is to carry out a full review of waste policy in England, looking at the most effective ways of reducing waste.

The review will include:

   * 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.

In 2008-09, 27.3 million tonnes of municipal waste was collected by local authorities: 50.3% was sent to landfill; 36.9% was recycled or composted; 12.2% was incinerated for energy recovery.

*Source DEFRA

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