London's Wasted Resource - the Mayor's Draft Municipal Waste Management Strategy

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The GLA Act 1999 gives the Mayor responsibility to produce a Municipal Waste Management Strategy for London. London's Wasted Resource, the first draft Strategy for consultation with the London Assembly and Functional Bodies, was launched on 18 January 2010. A second draft will be published for public consultation in summer 2010, and the final Strategy will be published in late 2010/early 2011.

We are offering you the chance to feed into the development of this important piece of work at this early stage. You could help shape the direction of London’s municipal waste management solutions to ensure they are as effective and efficient as possible.

Mayor’s vision for all of London’s waste PDF
Mayor’s vision for all of London’s waste RTF

Draft Municipal Waste Management Strategy PDF (1.8Mb)
Draft Municipal Waste Management Strategy main text RTF (293kb)
Draft Municipal Waste Management Strategy appendices RTF (2.5Mb)

Consultation

The Strategy is made up of six key policy chapters, outlining where the Mayor thinks he can make most difference. We would like to hear your thoughts – are the policies identifying the right things, do you think waste authorities could be doing more, and is the Mayor pushing hard enough to improve the situation?

The six overarching policies are listed below. Under each there is a link to a short survey asking questions around each policy area that we would like to invite you to comment on:

Policy 1 – Inform producers and consumers of the value of reducing, reusing and recycling

Policy 1 survey

Policy 2 – London will have a greenhouse gas standard for municipal waste management activities to reduce their impact on climate change

Policy 2 survey

Policy 3 – Capture the economic benefits of waste management

Policy 3 survey

Policy 4 – London to achieve 50 per cent municipal waste recycling or composting performance (including anaerobic digestion) by 2020 and 60 per cent by 2031

Policy 4 survey

Policy 5 - Catalysing municipal waste infrastructure in London, particularly low-carbon technologies

Policy 5 survey

Policy 6 – Achieving a high level of street cleanliness

Policy 6 survey

If you would rather give an unstructured response please either respond by letter, clearly marked ‘Waste strategy response’, to:

Mayor’s Municipal Waste Management Strategy Consultation
Post Point 19A Environment
Freepost Lon15799
4th Floor
City Hall
The Queen’s Walk
More London
London SE1 2AA

or email viewsonwaste@london.gov.uk .

This consultation closes on 15 March 2010. There will be a further three-month public consultation stage in the summer of 2010.