Is there an ideal way to manage London's waste?
In the three years since the Government rejected the proposition from Mayor that there should be a single waste authority for London the patchwork of collection and disposal authorities covering the capital has continued with the addition of the London Waste Recycling Board - LWaRB. London Remade's comments on the single waste authority proposal are here: London Remade's comments on the proposal for a single waste authority
After a slow start, LWaRB has begun channelling funding to programmes and initiatives to improve waste management in London.
LWARB is funding, for example, the Government‘s waste delivery agency, WRAP, to deliver a London version of the national ’Love Food Hate Waste' campaign, and in improving recycling rates in high rise dwellings where recycling rates are low and London has high concentration of its population living.
LWARB operates within the strategy written by the Mayor. There are two strategies currently in draft and available on the Greater London Council website. You can read London Remade's comments on the draft strategies here: London Remade's comments on the Mayor's waste strategies
As the essays in our first provocation show, the structure of waste management in London has grown piecemeal over a hundred and fifty years and the current regime is not ideal and needs reform.
A twenty first century waste management system built upon a nineteenth century structure is at odds with the economic, social and environmental objectives this new century presents.
