waste growth

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Waste minimisation - How do we slow the rate of waste growth?

But he added more was required to "tackle waste growth in our move towards a zero waste society".

If successful, the funding arrangements would stimulate higher levels of recycling against a background of reduced waste growth.

Waste growth has also been curtailed.

This resource has to compete in a market economy, but it is potentially the key to breaking the link between waste growth and growth in the economy.

Hard to tell, but if we use an assumption of 3%, what we can see is the green line shows that what they predict the waste growth will be.

Waste growth was being reduced with local authority domestic and business waste collections growing much less quickly than the economy of the United Kingdom at 0.5% per year.

This presents a problem as there are very few instruments to reduce municipal waste growth, but there is growing public opposition to the building of new waste treatment plants, particularly incinerators.

"As positive as these results are, we all need to continue our efforts to minimise waste growth and maximise recycling if we are to continue meeting ambitious recycling/composting targets."

He added: "These positive results should encourage us all to continue with our efforts to minimise waste growth and maximise recycling and to continue to meet the ambitious recycling/composting targets set out for Scotland."

A new report from the Prime Minister's Strategy Unit calls for greater efforts to reduce the rate of waste growth and for more re-use and recycling to combat the country's growing rubbish mountain.

The evidence submitted of waste growth assumptions used by other authorities locally and nationally and the past rates of waste growth in Sheffield and elsewhere would seem to support this.

Prof. Eric Williams, an Arizona State University expert on industrial ecology who did not participate in the UNEP study, said it was difficult to comment on the credibility of the electronic waste growth forecasts because the report gives little explanation of how they were calculated.