English county councils and their agenda for waste minimisation

Read, Adam D.; Phillips, Paul S; Murphy, Alice

doi:10.1016/s0921-3449(97)00023-2

Cited by 18 publications

(5 citation statements)

References 2 publications

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Order By: Relevance

“…The waste hierarchy [16] identifies waste management preferences for handling different waste streams. It is essential the public and private sector use it to guide their SWM strategies emphasising more sustainable options and phasing out landfill [17].…”

Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

confidence: 99%

The impact of the public and private waste sector on solid waste management practices in small Welsh hotels

Radwan

Jones

Minoli

2008

WIT Transactions on Ecology and the Environment

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Landfill dominates Welsh solid waste management (SWM) strategies despite harmful impacts on the environment. Reducing solid waste for landfill is therefore an imperative. Although small hotels individually produce small quantities of solid waste, collectively the volume is significant with much going to landfill although the waste hierarchy offers more sustainable alternatives that small hotels could use. Small hotels are businesses and legally required to make appropriate arrangements for SWM -either through the public or private sector. Earlier research in Wales emphasises economic forces in motivating small hotels SWM practices. Welsh local authorities play a major role in SWM. They are more committed to sustainable SWM practices as they are under pressure to meet the recycling and composting targets in Wales' Waste Strategy 2002. The private sector also plays a significant role in SWM but is not under pressure to meet targets and is more concerned with waste collection and landfilling. Both the public and private sector are critical to offering more sustainable SWM strategies for small hotels. This paper explores the support available to small hotels for SWM. A qualitative approach is used to develop a rich picture of the issues being investigated. Semi-structured interviews with waste management officers and private waste companies within a Welsh local authority show that neither provides appropriate support to commercial businesses, particularly towards waste minimisation and composting. The research concludes a fundamental review of SWM practices is needed to offer more sustainable SWM strategies to small hotels.

show abstract

Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

confidence: 99%

The impact of the public and private waste sector on solid waste management practices in small Welsh hotels

Radwan

Jones

Minoli

2008

WIT Transactions on Ecology and the Environment

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

“…Proposed management strategies should comply with the proximity principle; this is especially true for local authorities (Read et al, 1997).…”

Section: Sustainable Waste Managementmentioning

confidence: 99%

County waste minimization programmes: a case study from Northamptonshire, UK

Phillips¹,

Clarkson²,

Adams

et al. 2003

Sustainable Development

Self Cite

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

The UK Sustainable Development Strategy requires that society strive to make prudent use of natural resources so as to protect the environment and maintain high and stable levels of economic growth and employment. The Waste Strategy for England and Wales emphasizes the need to reduce the amount of waste produced through the adoption of waste minimization methodology. Waste minimization clubs have been a key element in the UK programme to introduce more sustainable practice into industry and commerce. Northamptonshire, a county in the East Midlands of England, has benefited from 14 waste minimization|resource efficiency projects, within a county programme, that have run between 1998 and 2001. This is the largest number in any county in England. This has been possible because of the formation of a large and inclusive partnership that contains all the key local and regional players. Performance indicators have been developed to direct the county programme as it strives to introduce more sustainable waste management practice. The Northamptonshire model has led to a catalysed uptake of sustainable waste management practice and has resulted in greatly improved competitiveness in some 270 companies, thereby contributing to the maintenance of stable levels of economic activity. Copyright © 2003 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. and ERP Environment

show abstract

“…Owing to the low cost, the dominant wastes management option, for all wastes has historically been landfill. However, by the year 2010 (Read et al, 1997) many regions in England will be suffering from a shortage of landfill void. A reduction in the availability of void space will also cause an increase in disposal charges.…”

Section: Why Minimise Waste?mentioning

confidence: 99%

Sustainable waste management in the food and drink industry

Bates

Phillips

1999

British Food Journal

Self Cite

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

In moving towards sustainable wastes management, the UK Government has adopted a wastes hierarchy. This hierarchy sets out clearly the priorities for sustainable resource use and wastes management: it ought to be the guiding principle of private and public policy, with the emphasis placed strongly on reducing the amount of raw material used. The House of Commons Environment, Transport & Regional Affairs Committee has noted a pressing need to promote wastes minimisation within industrial and commercial sectors and has recommended the introduction of penalties and incentives to encourage industrial wastes minimisation. Despite this, in the food and retailing sector only around 25 per cent of companies were found to operate wastes minimisation programmes. This paper aims to demonstrate the benefits of wastes minimisation, in both financial and environmental terms, for the food and drink sector. Large multiprocess food and drink companies have found they can make annual savings of greater than one per cent of turnover by implementing wastes minimisation strategies.

show abstract

English county councils and their agenda for waste minimisation

Cited by 18 publications

References 2 publications

The impact of the public and private waste sector on solid waste management practices in small Welsh hotels

The impact of the public and private waste sector on solid waste management practices in small Welsh hotels

County waste minimization programmes: a case study from Northamptonshire, UK

Sustainable waste management in the food and drink industry

Contact Info

Product

Resources

About