3.3

A Paragraph should be added just after Paragraph 3.3 stating: “The Government’s Resources and Waste Strategy (2018) noted that the Government’s goal is to move to a more circular economy which keeps resources in use for longer and states that, for this to happen, we must all reduce, reuse and recycle more than we do now. The strategy links the circular economy to its strategic indicators, specifically to reduce for the amount of waste that is being generated and ‘to minimise the amount of residual waste that we create because it is a loss to the circular economy and so will have to be replaced by using virgin materials with associated carbon emissions’”.

To ensure it is interpreted in line with national resources and waste policy, the definition of the Circular Economy should be clarified through reference to the relevant targets in the UK Government’s Resources and Waste Strategy.

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