Implications for the UK Waste Management Assignment
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Brexit: Implications for the UK wastemanagement
TABLE OF CONTENTSINTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................1Waste policies and strategies overview.......................................................................................1Current waste management legislation.......................................................................................3Referendum mean for UK waste disposal...................................................................................8Hazardous waste........................................................................................................................11CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................14REFERENCE.................................................................................................................................15
INTRODUCTIONWaste management is transformed in UK by EU environmental legislation. Law of EUhas provided longer term vision for managing resource well, according to UK government'sbalance of competencies review report waste management legislation of EU has changed UKapproaches and that has helped in reducing landfill in the nation. This has supported inincreasing recycling and best utilization of resources. Present study will discuss waste policiesand strategies overview of waste management. Furthermore, it will explain current legislationand meaning of referendum for the UK waste disposal. It will highlight hazardous waste and itsimpact on country. MAIN BODYWaste policies and strategies overviewMembership of EU is always seen as combining aspect that has supported the nation inimproving waste management policies. As Government has started the 'Brexit' process, all thingswere seen as threats. Waste management policy and strategies of UK are strongly influenced byEuropean Union. It has become essential to have better understanding about key elements ofwaste policies. One of the major constant feature of UK waste policy is change. All majorchanges driven by EU waste management law (Garnett and Tyrrel, 2017). European Union hasmade many effective strategies in order to make effective control over wastage and usingresource effectively. Building on gains of 2000 policy, Defra published in 2013 a new wastemanagement plan for England, subsequent 2007 waste strategy for England etc. are manystrategies that have been made by government that have helped in improving the condition ofnation and minimizing wastage. Key features of waste policy are as following:Waste hierarchyEU has made wide policy on waste which is known as waste hierarchy. It explains thatcompanies where wastage is high have to prevent waste, make strategy for reuse and recycle it.That can support in minimizing the cost and resources will be used in most effective manner(Blackman, 2016). Diversion of waste from the landfillIt is another feature of waste dumping policy whose main objective is to minimizewastage level in the industry and hire experienced persons who have knowledge about recyclingof waste material, Environmental permitting regulation 2010 and landfill allowance scheme1
describes that there is need to be minimise wastage (Guerrero, Maas and Hogland, 2013). Thesestrategies have imposed restrictions on waste disposal in landfills in England and Wales. Increasing recyclingOne of the main objective of UK government is to enhance recycling of waste material.Authorities have made several strategies that helps in encouraging public to reuse the scrapmaterial and utilize resources effectively. That supports in minimizing wastage and improvingcondition of nation. In the year 2015 UK government has introduced waste policy in which theyannounced fine of 5p for using plastic bags (Laurent and et.al., 2014). That made retailers not touse plastic carry bags. Because plastic is harmful for environment and it cannot be recycled. Thatis why policy of stoppage of plastic bags Has helped in minimizing wastage from the nation. Reduction of waste from economyUK is the nation where business and industries are producing high amount of wastage.One of the main objective of waste policy is to minimize amount of produced goods bycommercial sector. In order to accomplish this objective government has made many changes inexisting waste policy. Producer’s responsibilit regulation 2007 explains that it is theresponsibility of producer to reuse waste material and recycle it (Kiddee, Naidu and Wong,2013). They have to design products in effective manner such that it support in easy dismantlingand recycling. This waste policy assists in reducing waste from country and it can aid inimproving economic condition of countries. With the help of this policy companies are able toreduce cost and that has supported in increasing their revenues as well. Shared responsibilityOne of the main waste reduction policy of UK is to share responsibility. Populationgenerates wastes, so it becomes duty of all people to contribute well in minimizing the wastematerials and effective utilization of resources. They have to make good strategies and have toshare their responsibilities so that this industry can grow well and economy of the nation can beimproved soon (Edjabou and et.al., 2015). There are several policies which have been made in relation to waste management. Wasteframework directive (2008/98/EC) is considered as one of the effective law whose mainobjective is to create framework for disposal of waste materials. In this respect government of2
UK has set some recycling targets in which it is necessary to recycle 50% of household wastesand 70% of non-hazardous by the end of 2020. Thematic strategy for preventing and recycling of waste material have been made by thegovernment of the country. In this respect seven thematic strategies programmes have beenintroduced by authorities. These long-term strategies have helped the nation in becomingrecycling society. With the help of these strategies and policies UK has avoided wastages to agreat extent. Integrated product policyIt is the policy which was made to reduce the loopholes in the product's life cycle. It isthe strategy by which government has planned to make the products' life cycle process moreeffective so that mistakes can be minimized to a great extent (Gavilanes and et.al., 2016). Waste management is the major issue across the world, due to high amount of wastes byindustries and businesses. Most of the nations are focusing on reducing the wastage so that thereeconomic conditions can be improved. Furthermore, many policies such as waste prevention,recycling, road map to resource efficient Europe, etc. have been made in this respect so thatoverall condition of the nation can be improved. These are effective in order to minimizewastage and optimising resource use (Jensen, Møller and Scheutz, 2016). Main objective ofimplementing these policies are to reduce amount of waste material, maximization of recycling,limit incineration, full implementation of waste management policy etc. Current waste management legislationThere are different waste management laws in the UK which help the people in the UK tomanage the different types of waste. This will help the individual to keep the environment freefrom the different pollution such as land, water and air pollution. There are several changes takeplace in the waste policy of UK. After 2000, there were many changes take place which help theUK to manage and produce of the waste. There were several strategies have been taken by theEngland and Wales, and have several features to manage the waste in the UK (Arp andSparrevik, 2017)(Ding and Huang, 2016).The material and waste management in the UK have been transformed by the EUenvironmental legislation. The new laws have been created great impact that how resources canbe managed in present and future by the household and different companies. Waste management3
laws govern the storage, transport, treatment and disposal of all the waste such as municipal,solid, hazardous, nuclear etc. it is generally made and implemented so that the country can ableto control and dispersal the waste so that it does not cause any harm to the environment as theecological and biological manner (Ding and Huang, 2016). It is designed so that they reduce thewaste in the coming generation and promote waste recycling (Bernstad and la Cour Jansen,2017). The process start with the waste determination and end with reduce or recycle of thewaste. Waste determination is the process where the material is being identified by the peoplewhat is to be disposed in the companies and by the household. There are different standard madeby the government so that they can able to control and reduce the waste in the country. Thestandard includes the method, location and the permissibility of the particular waste. Thestandard is made by the government so that it protect the human comfort and health as well as itsecure the environmental issues. The standard may include disposal ban which is the mostcommon and standard on the littering. Jurisdiction has authorized a specific area or system forrubbish collection, deposition or rejection of rubbish elsewhere may be subject to civil orcriminal penalties (Wu and Shen, 2017). Different laws related to the waste disposal are asfollows: The Waste England and Wales Amendment Regulations 2012: it is the la which islaied down in the 19th July 2012 and inforced in the 1st October 2012. The main motive of thislaw is to sprately collection of the waste. Different people start collection of the papper, plastic,metal and glass seprately. They also impose the seprate duty on the waste collection duty whichstart from the date in the making the arrangements for gathering of the different waste. This helpthe country to ensure that those arrangements are in the way of seperate collection (Shearer andHunt, 2017).Battery directive: It is the law which was implemented in 6th September 2006 which isrelated to the accumulation and the waste batteries. It is the law which is related to themanufacturing and disposal of the batteries in the UK. The key aim of this law is to enhance theenvironmental performance of the accumulators and the batteries (Fernández-González andZamorano, 2017). Generally the batteries consume very hazardous components such ascadmium, mercury and lead which provide the risk to the human life, health of the people as wellas harmful for the environment. There are various aspects set by the law which are as follows:4
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