Agreeing a Strategy for North London’s Waste – click
What are the top priorities for handling our waste?
Last chance to say what you think we should do with our ‘waste’
The North London Waste Authority (NLWA) is obliged to produce a new strategy to guide handling waste from Barnet, Camden, Enfield, Hackney, Haringey, Islington, and Waltham Forest, because the previous strategy is out of date. They are consulting north London residents with a commonplace survey here open until the 23rd January 2025.
The new Joint Waste Strategy for North London (NLJWS) will provide the framework for waste management in north London up to 2040 waste disposal, carbon emissions.
Have your say before 23rd Jan 2025 on the north London waste strategy. To respond to the full set of proposals go to here.
The Targets in the consultation are to:
• Reduce avoidable food waste by 50%
• Reduce recyclable material in residual waste by 50%
• Double the proportion of material reused at our Reuse and Recycling Centres
To discover where recycling goes currently click on ‘Where does my recycling go?‘
The intentions of this waste strategy for north London are “We will:
• Ask government to legislate to reduce plastic and other fossil-based content in the waste stream and ensure product designers and manufacturers are responsible for the emissions of their products.
• Improve our facilities to manage all of north London’s waste using the latest and best technology to control pollutants and limit our environmental impacts.
• Use north London’s waste as a resource for society by generating energy and heat for the local area, reducing demand on fossil fuels.
• Investigate the use of carbon capture and storage technologies to further reduce the carbon impact of our facilities.
• Continue our progress to decarbonise our vehicles and look to electric or alternative fuels for our fleets as a means of reducing our overall carbon impact.
• Actively monitor new technologies for sorting and treating waste with a view to improving our infrastructure and decarbonising the waste stream.
• Produce new analysis examining the carbon impact of the waste produced in north London.
This waste hierarchy triangle illustrates the priority approaches for managing waste. Waste hierarchy guidance (publishing.service.gov.uk) Defra 2011
Do we agree with the new targets and methods of achieving them, looking to 2040?
If you want to know more about what happens to recycling and ‘rubbish’ checkout Haringey Waste for a summary and also Collecting Our Waste and Disposing of North London Waste.
This latest consultation gives us the opportunity to make sure that the NLWA addresses today’s waste challenges in the best way for the planet, as well as for North London residents. We all need to support Government efforts to reduce the amount of stuff needing to be recycled or disposed of as quickly as possible to reduce our carbon emissions and get to ‘net zero’.
The NLWA can help with that aim, so check out the old strategy and let the NLWA know how the new strtegy can address today’s waste challenges without harming the planet.