Comment
Nottinghamshire and Nottingham Draft Waste Local Plan January 2022
Representation ID: 640
Received: 04/04/2022
Respondent: Nottinghamshire Wildlife Trust
SP2 - Future Waste Management Provision
The Waste Local Plan aims to provide sufficient waste management capacity to meet identified
needs and will support proposals for waste management facilities which help to move waste
management up the waste hierarchy. In order to ensure that future waste needs are
minimised, the Councils will strive to reduce waste production through all areas of their
work and influence.
NWT questions whether this is ambitious enough without a specific reference again to reduction.
Past experience has shown that only reduced waste management capacity will actually
drive innovation in reduction and re-use.
Thank you for consulting the Nottinghamshire Wildlife Trust (NWT) on the above. I apologise
for using this format of response, but the OPUS format is not straightforward to use for
responses to multiple sections and the insertion or highlighting of text. I have used bold italics
to suggest insertions of text and italics for your original text.
Overall NWT supports the principles of the Plan and we welcome the clear reiteration of the
need to move waste management urgently up the waste hierarchy. We would hope, however,
to see a stronger aim for further waste reduction and the obligation for each Local
Authority to secure ambitious waste reductions across all their work and areas of
influence.
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