Waste Management and Recycling News

11-02-2010

Long term aim of zero waste nation

Environment minister Dan Norris announced his support for turning England into a ‘zero waste nation' and confirmed that a consultation on landfill bans is set to be launched in the next few weeks.

However, the notion of zero waste was criticised as "misleading", with claims it will only amount to "nice rhetoric".

Speaking at the Resource Waste Management Summit in London, Mr Norris explained that the long-term ambition of Defra was to create a ‘zero waste nation' and he gave an indication that this would be achieved by a keener focus on organics recycling.

Environment minister Hilary Benn first outlined this zero waste vision in October 2009, when the minister identified the need for greater work on food waste and for a wider range of materials to be collected at the kerbside by all local authorities by 2020.

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