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Joint Waste Strategy

The South London Waste Partnership’s Joint Municipal Waste Management Strategy is a statement of intent to guide the four Partner Boroughs in undertaking their individual waste management activities.

The Strategy sets out the aims and objectives to help the Partnership achieve its Overarching Strategic Goal

It is not a statutory document as the Partnership is not, at present, a Joint Waste Authority and therefore is not legally required to produce a Joint Waste Management Strategy.  Despite this, the four Partner Boroughs are committed to adopting a more consistent and complementary approach to waste management across the Partnership region and it was felt that a Joint Strategy was an important part in achieving this.

Consultation on a draft of the Joint Strategy took place in the spring and summer of 2010 involving over 1,000 residents who were recruited by the social research experts Ipsos MORI to be demographically representative of the four boroughs.  The feedback from this consultation helped to shape the final version of the Strategy which was formally adopted by the  Joint Waste Committee in February 2011.

The Strategy covers the period from 2010 to 2020 and will be reviewed on an annual basis.  It sets out the aims and objectives to help the Partnership achieve its Overarching Strategic Goal:

‘To minimise the climate changing impact of managing municipal solid waste, through effective and efficient diversion from landfill’.

The Strategy sets out clear aims and objectives which each of the Partner Boroughs must meet if the South London Waste Partnership is to achieve this goal.

Joint Waste Strategy