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Open Day Two Workshops
Notes from Workshop E
Richard Read, Hampshire County Council
Session 1
Constraints
- Individual markets eg cardboard
- Supply and demand inconsistencies
- Spot markets v contracts
- No relationship between LAs and business
- Enterprise v bureaucracy especially in relation to time
- Relationship between tiers of government
- SMEs lack of capital
- Lack of understanding of other sectors
- Image of recycling
- Lack of response for businesses to recycle
- Companies treat waste as traditional cost
- Do businesses measure waste
- Waste hierarchy naïve
- Law is a barrier eg building regulations
- Barriers within authorities
- Cultural gap LAs and business
Session 2
The way forward
- Waste exchanges
- Help companies analyse waste
- Business doesn’t have time and resources to look at waste reduction
- Address PRN system
- Think of waste as resource and look to inward investment
- Venture philanthropy
- Provide facilitation service
- Need to look at life cycles of materials
- Incentives for green purchasing
- Needs to be more regional authority communication
- Better use of internet
- Groups like Project Integra should be companies
- Set up public/private consortium
- Go regional to get quantities of materials
Session 3
Three practical solutions
- Group of authorities
- Set up local processing facility with reprocessor. Partnership to share
income/PRN. High quality product for container market. Look to pull in other LAs
- Secondary mixed collection for aggregate eg pubs. Possible commercial route too
- Glassphelt
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