We have two priorities; minimising resource use and diverting priority materials from landfill.
Between 2011-15 we aim to:
- Encourage better design and more informed consumption which will help us all waste less
- Make it easier to recycle, repair and re-use as much of our waste as possible, wherever we are – in the home, at work, or away from home
- To enable others to recover as much value as possible from the waste that's collected – whether as resources that can be used again and again, or as energy
- Help others to keep resources moving round the economy - the more money we save, the less the demand on ever-scarcer natural resources
Our work
- Preventing food and drink waste
- Helping SMEs to become more resource efficient
- Improving the collection of materials for recycling and re-use
- Increasing the re-use and recycling of priority products
- Increasing the resource efficiency of construction and refurbishment projects
- Increasing the resource efficiency of products
- Recycling organic waste and recovering energy
