More from Less -
Summary of Actions

Summary of Actions

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Promote good practice within businesses and the public sector, including facilitating and supporting demonstration projects.

Identify and communicate sustainability and consumption issues relevant to the local community.

Engage with existing networks to distribute messages.

Assist and support businesses and the public sector to identify and implement opportunities for change.

Work with central government and regional bodies to promote our materials approach and overcome legislative and funding barriers.

Engage with Local Strategic Partnerships to undertake activities to influence local communities.

Integrate key messages into the education and training system, providing information and support to teachers and course leaders.

Publicise innovative and practical recycled products and materials to key sectors.

Stimulate markets by encouraging the public sector, specifically local authorities, to trial new materials and products.

Work with national and regional organisations such as the Waste and Resources Action Programme (WRAP) to help develop markets locally, regionally and nationally.

Promote extended life and reuse and remanufacturing through awareness and influencing measures.

Continue with Project Integra’s research and initiatives to minimise household rubbish at the source and increase participation in recycling.

Specific performance indicators can be developed for the process chain work.

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Maximise extended life and reuse opportunities via the Household Waste Recycling Centre network.

Further work should be undertaken to work out the phasing of the increase in recycling and composting.

Provide for a range of new storage and processing facilities to underpin recycling.

Provide improved industry led recycling services to businesses, particularly SMEs, including collective schemes on industrial estates etc.

Household recycling collections to be extended to offer charged services to SMEs.

Recycling collections to households and commercial premises should be progressively extended to include additional materials (e.g. glass, biowaste) by 2020.

Develop role of the Household Waste Recycling Centres in providing convenient and accessible reuse, recycling and composting services to the whole community.

Household waste collections should be standardised and optimised. The achievement of the best performing schemes needs to become the norm.

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Waste processing and disposal capacity should be identified in Hampshire, Portsmouth and Southampton to achieve net self-sufficiency by 2016.

All unavoidable wastes should be assessed, and where practicable pre-sorted or pre-treated to recover materials and resources and/or allow further treatment to minimise the need for landfill.

Landfill should be the disposal option for inert wastes that cannot be practically reused or recycled.

Additional resource recovery capacity for non-hazardous wastes should be provided by 2016.

To meet the need for additional resource recovery capacity, new technologies such as gasification, pyrolysis and anaerobic digestion should be considered.

Further large scale thermal treatment capacity, via mass burn or fluidised bed incineration, may be required to meet future needs.

The recycling of IBA should be maximised and a site for the processing of it into aggregate identified.

Supporting landfill capacity for disposal of non-hazardous wastes and residues will also be needed.

The provision of a ‘soil hospital’ to decontaminate soils would help to address hazardous waste capacity issues.

There is a need for a specialist recovery/disposal facility for air pollution control residues (fly-ash) to be provided on a national or regional basis.

The waste management industry should start to provide new local resource recovery and treatment facilities for commercial and industrial wastes.

In order to foster a climate in which business can invest in such technologies, it is important to limit the opportunity for landfill by only meeting essential unavoidable waste disposal.

Opportunities for the co-processing of non-hazardous municipal, commercial and industrial waste streams should be investigated.

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There should be a change of about 5% in supply for land-won aggregates from South West Hampshire to North East Hampshire.

There is a case for increasing the amount of marine dredged sand and gravel in order to reduce the need for land-won material, subject to an assessment of the effects on the marine environment.

Continuously review the situation with regard to new dredging licence applications and the need for wharf capacity in Hampshire. Promote the importation of secondary aggregate through spare capacity at Hampshire’s wharves.

Over time develop the arguments with supporting evidence to show what can be achieved to reduce the need for land-won aggregates.

Identify new mineral sites in the following key areas of search:

· New Forest Area

· Lower Test Valley and Solent

· North Hampshire (Upper Test Valley and Basingstoke)

· North East Hampshire (Bramshill Plateau and Bordon)

Create additional capacity to recycle construction, demolition and excavation wastes.

Encourage sustainable design, construction and demolition in order to minimise the demand for aggregates, increase recycling and reduce the disposal of construction and demolition wastes.

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Identify new preferred areas for sand and gravel extraction in order to achieve the minimum landbank requirement of seven years.

Ensure that sufficient and appropriately located wharf capacity is available to meet or increase current levels of demand for the landing of marine aggregates.

Undertake detailed research for all types of infrastructure required, including considering ‘strategic’ and ‘smaller’ CD&E waste recycling facilities separately, to identify capacity needs both spatially and over time.

Progress the concept of ‘resource recovery parks’ where recycling, recovery and other appropriate activities and industries are clustered together on a dedicated ‘industrial estate’ type sites.

Work together with adjacent counties to ensure that respective policies and plans are complementary and to develop joint initiatives and infrastructure.

Give careful consideration to the precise siting of resource recovery facilities so that the energy recovery potential can be maximised.

Consider opportunities to maximise transport efficiency (i.e. by rail and/or sea) when identifying sites for new facilities.

More investigation should be carried out to determine the broad spatial requirements for the small/local facilities

Investigate innovative local solutions such as landscaping and flood defences for inert waste landfill to reduce transport distances.

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Provide Government with tangible real examples of implementing new projects on the ground within a sensible time-frame.

Material resources management issues should be integrated into the South East Plan and Hampshire, Portsmouth and Southampton Councils should work to influence the plan accordingly.

Seek to ensure the More from Less materials management philosophy is reflected in community strategies.

The MWDF is a key means of implementing More from Less and the Minerals and Waste Planning Authorities should use their best endeavours to bring this about.

LDFs should take into account sites safeguarded through the MWDF and reflect the More from Less principles.

Update the current Project Integra (PI) strategy and develop this into an implementation plan.

PI to maximise affordability and value for money for the council tax payers, including by optimising recycling performance across the PI partnership and maximising cost efficiencies through economies of scale and joint working.

Natural Resources Initiative (NRI) should take the lead, with colleagues in PI, for coordination of actions to implement the proposals in this document for increasing resource efficiency and reducing wastage.

Re-invigorate the community input into NRI in Spring 2005.

Hold an annual meeting of all the stakeholders involved in the preparation of this document so that progress in implementing through the various strands can be reviewed.