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Sustainability
Waste Management

Delivering Sustainable Growth: How the Resource and Waste Management Industry Benefits People, the Environment and the Economy

Burgess COMMENTARY

Peter Burgess

Delivering Sustainable Growth: How the Resource and Waste Management Industry Benefits People, the Environment and the Economy

In this report, the waste management trade group Environmental Services Association (ESA) explains that the United Kingdom is unlikely to reach its target of a 50 percent household recycling rate by 2020, due to rising household waste volumes, strained local authority finances, and a drop in commodity prices that has affected investment in waste infrastructure. Urging the government to ensure “recycling and diversion rates do not go backwards,” the group provides four recommendations which it believes will create a more resilient waste collection system and aid the push towards a circular economy: Develop more resilient recovery markets for waste-derived products to stimulate the demand for recycled content in products in a way that ensures recycling remains economic as higher recycling rates are reached. Introduce a new framework for producer responsibility which transfers resource ownership from local authorities to product supply chains to help produce secondary materials of consistent quality which would drive resource efficiency, strengthen competitiveness, stimulate long-term investment and make the system resilient to changing market pressures and drivers. Improve the efficiency of waste collection systems and infrastructure to facilitate a more coordinated approach to waste management between local authorities would increase economies of scale and yield an overall reduction in system costs. Drive waste crime out of the sector to help compliant businesses thrive by rooting out unscrupulous operators. The ESA estimates that the public sector loses £568 million each year through unpaid landfill tax and clean-up costs. The report also highlights how the waste management industry has been helping to create a circular economy already, and the social, environmental and economic benefits that the sector delivers. To further illustrate its actions and ambitions, several case studies from recycling centres, waste-to-energy plants, and companies such as SUEZ and Veolia. keywords: The Next EconomyResearch ReportEnergy/UtilitiesGovernment/NGOManufacturingBusiness Model InnovationCollaboration/PartnershipsCommitments & GoalsEnvironmental/Social IssuesImpact ReductionLifecycle ManagementStrategySustainability ContextWaste Reduction/Reuse


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