This guide will help you create a waste policy for your business and put that policy into action.

Before you create a waste policy make sure that your business' senior management will support it.

Once you have carried out a waste review and created a waste policy, you can develop an action plan.

With hearings and environmental studies looming, the public will have a chance to raise the disturbing questions about this huge shift in waste policy.

The second challenge we are facing lies in defining the environmental objective of waste policy.

We should therefore not turn a blind eye to a few obstacles in European waste policy.

We already have international agreements governing aspects of waste policy.

It would have made for a more flexible waste policy which took account of circumstances.

Indeed, we have no access to or control over the waste policies pursued by third countries.

Sceptics should pay a visit to Belgium, the nation that leads the world in waste policy.