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• How the Material Resources Strategy was developed?
  
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• Background and context

• Overview of the problem

• Visions and aims

• Increasing resource efficiency and reducing wastage

• Maximising reuse, recycling and composting

• Dealing with unavoidable waste

• Meeting the need for minerals

• Need for new infrastructure and sites

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What are you views on the proposed Strategic Objectives?

• Creating an agenda to influence government is good
• Objective 1 good, well supported by group members
• Should we map the process chain in a hierarchy i.e. use a diagram to express these objectives?
• Need to describe process chain for given materials, make it simple and understandable.
• Publicising best practice: standardised practice in any area.

• The final objective is fundamental. Should be first bullet point. But do we mean community or society? Remove word ‘community’, needs to include everyone, including for example banks, lenders, and financial institutions.
• 2 – trying to express that we are dealing with wider resource stream. Use of term ‘segregation’ implies separating glass, paper etc. Replace ‘waste segregation’ with ‘managing waste’ and remove word ‘society’ (too limited).
• 2 – replicated in last bullet point. Stand-alone point should start from ‘maximise participation…’ followed by a second bullet point about awareness raising and attitudes (i.e. last bullet point plus first half of second bullet point). Awareness raising very important.
• 5 – ‘Support Hampshire Businesses’: difficult - businesses want planning restrictions relaxed to help them but this is not possible. Example of help: helping small businesses to co-ordinate waste collection. Want specific objective relating to business community related to helping business to develop markets, take advantage of business opportunities. Is this role of the Council?

• Demonstration projects: often not taken on board into mainstream, needs to be more than just supporting innovation and demonstration, need to have objective of generating markets too.

• People must be able to see the benefits for them personally.
• Breaking objectives into two groups (1) information, awareness, motivation, (2) structure to enable this to happen and linking to other two elements.
• Need to make this an easy transition for public, business and other organisations.
• ‘Engaging the process chain’ – too odd, needs changing, ‘getting everyone involved’ would be better.
• 2 – ‘waste segregation’ – shouldn’t this be resource?
• 2 and 7 – refer slightly to the main principle (changing attitudes) so need new one on this and merge parts 2 and 7.
• Main Objectives:-

1. Public Sector
2. Influencing UK/EC Government
3. Communicate with Business
4. Changed attitudes
5. Support innovation
6. Promote best practice

• Raising awareness needs to be broader than waste and should be about information awareness and motivation and education.
• Need to clarify which groups we are talking about, (i) business (ii) community (iii) public etc.
• Co-ordination so that everyone is getting the same messages about resources.
• First bullet point is to complicated – principle needs breaking down into four elements.
• Change all mentions of ‘waste’ to ‘resources’ in all principles.

• Changing people’s attitudes through a sustainable lifestyle change campaign and engaging people in their environment.
• Public sector must lead the way in making this happen.
• Make resource management and environmental management easily accessible to promote best practice amongst Hampshire business community.
• Final implications of the MRS and lobbying for what we need to change (e.g. Landfill tax).
• Increase household waste recycling through educational/community activities.
• Providing recycling systems for all organisations – not just household.

• Needs to be measurable – need to develop a number of targets.
• Needs to be achievable – promote end of process markets for closed loop recycling.
• Needs to be realistic – make objectives obtainable for all business sectors including SME’s.
• Indirect route through persuasion and encouragement to achieve policy change and change in working practice.
• Include local media to promote target achievement.
• Wording of the strategy needs to be clear and concise so that principles can be implemented and enforced. The MRS needs to deliver measures that can be easily enforced at all levels and avoid ambiguity.

• Need emphasis on changes to specifications and procurement strategies to promote sustainable construction and to maximise use of secondary and recycled materials.
• Standards should provide a benchmark and illustrate best practice.
• Need to mention voluntary sector and sustainable community engagement.
• Need to support ‘businesses in and outside Hampshire not ‘Hampshire businesses’.
• Need to take politics out of the strategy and avoid EC regulation of fiscal policies – need to lobby the Government and where appropriate the EC.
• Need to push emphasis on how waste can be used as a resource through increased education and changes in working practice through promotion of best practice.

• Produce ‘star rating’ for services and procurement to promote MRS throughout the public sector and therefore use the public sector to promote best practice i.e. Green kite marking.
• Can be rolled out through individual local authorities.
• Need to avoid repeating other’s mistakes and learning from mistakes.
• Exclude exclusivity of Hampshire businesses, as there are many crossover boundaries to promote and support economic development.

• Don’t like the title ‘Engaging the Process Chain’ - too much jargon.
• Are the objectives sufficient to meet the overall vision? Not as they stand. Can’t do it all on our own - need regional and national support.

• Happy with this.
• Raising awareness is part of implementation - should be ‘achieve waste segregation’. Must at least meet government targets.
• ‘Support innovation and demonstration projects’ - what does support mean? Too vague. Not an objective.
• Need to find best practice (e.g. from Europe). Add - ‘act on/utilise best practice’. (Adopt or even legislate) Make stronger i.e. enforce best practise.
• ‘Support Hampshire businesses’ - what do we mean by ‘support’? Need clarification. Need to encourage/financial incentives. What are the ‘business opportunities’? Clarify.
• 6 – Happy but make more specific - e.g. ‘actively influence the EC/Government’
• 7 – add in ‘behaviour’ after ‘attitudes’. Put ‘the need for change’ after ‘understanding’.

• Monitor and review implementation and achievements under the MRS regularly and amend policies and practices accordingly.
• Radical measures - can we stop waste products coming in to Hampshire? e.g. ban plastic bags

• Specifications need to change so can include recycled materials.
• Colour code materials for easy identification.

• Should meet all SMART criteria i.e. need to be time-based, measurable and have an action plan
• Must have timescales to objectives and they must be measurable
• Can’t engage people until all the facilities to process the recycled materials are in place

• 1 – ‘consumption’ is different – could take this out? Take out ‘preventing’ and replace with ‘minimisation’. Needs to be time based and measurable. Action.
• 2 – define what waste streams we are talking about. Include reference to the voluntary/community/charity sector. Ensure within a certain timeframe that all households and businesses have information in a format that they will read.
• 3 and 4 – OK but need to be expanded and on-going publicity.
• 5 – get business to support this process. Have dialogue with X number of businesses.
• 6 – should be a dialogue with EU and government rather than an agenda.
• 7 – add changing consumer behaviour.

• Need an objective about education, especially in schools

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