The Mayor wants to encourage improved resource efficiency and waste management practices in London. Business waste - consisting of waste from commercial and industrial sectors, and from construction, demolition and excavation activities - accounts for around 80% of all of London's waste; as such this must be a target area for the Mayor to influence behaviour. The Mayor's Business Management Waste Strategy outlines his vision and priorities for improving the resource efficiency and waste management practices of London's businesses. Please take some time to read the strategy and comment on the parts you feel are relevant to your organisation.

1.	How important does your organisation think waste prevention and recycling is?
	Very important
	Quite important
	Not very important
	Not important at all

2.	What are the key issues that your organisation faces in reducing waste outputs and recycling?

3.	What are the key things you would like to see the Mayor do to help your organisation improve its waste management?

4.	The Mayor has identified four policy areas that he will seek to influence to improve resource and waste management in London's businesses. Please check the boxes below to see further information on each policy and make comments.
	Promoting the value of a resource efficient business
	Boosting re-use, recycling and composting participation by commercial and industrial waste producers
	Supporting waste infrastructure in London
	Improving resource efficiency, re-use and recycling in the construction and demolition sector

Policy 1: Promoting the financial and commercial value of a resource efficient business Vision The Mayor wishes to transform perceptions about resource efficiency and waste among London’s businesses and their employees by promoting the financial and commercial value of resource-efficient businesses in order to help shift towards a low-carbon society that has benefits for the wider London economy, for the environment and for Londoners. This is an economy that uses fewer resources more efficiently, produces less waste and uses recovered resources in the form of both materials and energy.

Vision to policy The Mayor will provide businesses with the resources necessary to help businesses to:  -  Identify and implement waste prevention measures within their organisation.  -  Minimise resource use and increase the uptake of re-used, recycled and reclaimed products and materials.  -  Realise the financial and wider commercial benefits of being actively engaged in these resource efficiency and waste prevention     activities across the whole supply chain, from resource extraction to product design, production, distribution, consumption,     re-use, waste prevention, recycling, treatment and disposal.

Policy to action Proposal 1.1: Supporting businesses to identify and implement waste prevention opportunities across the supply chain. Proposal 1.2: Supporting businesses to close the loop in London and drive the market for use of recovered resources. Proposal 1.3: Deliver Londonwide campaigns and initiatives to promote the financial, commercial and environmental benefits of resource efficiency to businesses and their employees.

5.	What support do you need to help identify and implement waste prevention opportunities?

6.	What would make your organisation buy more sustainable goods and services, specifically re-used and recycled products and materials?

7.	What would you like to see featured as part of a future waste reduction, re-use and recycling engagement programme for business waste producers?

8.	Other comments - is there anything else you think the Mayor should be doing to achieve the vision for this policy?

Policy 2: Boosting re-use, recycling and composting participation in the commercial and industrial sector Vision The Mayor wants to help all types and sizes of business to overcome the practical issues that prevent greater separation of wastes for re-use and recycling, so as to encourage greater participation by businesses in helping to achieve 70% re-use, recycling and composting of C&I waste by 2020 and beyond.

Vision to Policy The Mayor will target his policy proposals at those sectors and waste streams that are most likely to yield significant improvements in waste reduction and in re-use, recycling and composting performance, thus enabling the diversion of London’s commercial and industrial waste from landfill.  These policy proposals and actions are focused on helping businesses to overcome the practical issues that prevent greater participation in active resource and waste management.

Policy to Action Proposal 2.1: Increasing access to re-use, recycling and composting services and collective contracting arrangements, particularly for small and medium-size businesses. Proposal 2.2: Boosting re-use, recycling and composting performance in multi-tenanted buildings and on large estates. Proposal 2.3: Targeting London’s food waste producers. Proposal 2.4: Improving storage capacity and collection access arrangements to business premises.

9.	Which types of waste are the priority for your organisation to a) Reduce?

	b) Reuse?

	c) Recycle?

10.	What would make it easier for you to find / procure waste and recycling collection services?

11.	What practical issues does your organisation face in separating waste and preparing it for recycling or reuse over general disposal?

12.	Do you think the proposals outlined will help you? Is there anything missing?

13.	Other comments - is there anything else you think the Mayor should be doing to achieve the vision for this policy?

Policy 3: Supporting the waste infrastructure market in London to grow and to deliver for business Vision Assist the development of new waste infrastructure to support the management of London’s business waste within the Capital, such that reliance on landfill is reduced and targets for business waste re-use and recycling can be met.  This will also bring financial, economic and environmental benefits to London.  The aim is to catalyse the market by sharing the risk associated with these new projects, illustrate their commercial viability and then attract greater levels of private sector investment to fund large-scale roll-out.

Vision to policy  -  The Mayor will use the role of the LWARB to overcome the key barriers (i.e. access to and risk of investment, planning,      developing effective partnerships and plugging the knowledge gap) that act as a disincentive to private sector investors      in the waste sector.  -  Use the Mayor’s influence over London’s planning regime to ensure that new waste treatment infrastructure is not delayed     in being brought to market.  -  The Mayor will also encourage the development of waste facilities in a way that facilitates their integration into London’s     urban environment and helps to reduce the operation impacts of the waste sector upon the environment.

Policy to action Proposal 3.1: Securing New Investment for Waste Infrastructure in London. Proposal 3.2: Facilitate Business Partnerships to Help Catalyse Development of Waste Infrastructure in London. Proposal 3.3: Improving the Knowledge Base for Waste Sector Investors. Proposal 3.4: Identifying Additional Opportunities for Development of Business Waste Treatment Infrastructure. Proposal 3.5: Facilitate Delivery of Waste Infrastructure through the Strategic Planning process. Proposal 3.6: Integrating Waste Facilities into the Urban Environment.

14.	Do you think the proposals outlined above will achieve the necessary conditions to deliver waste infrastructure development?

15.	Do you see any issues with the proposed move towards more waste management taking place in London?

16.	Other comments - is there anything else you think the Mayor should be doing to achieve the vision for this policy?

Policy 4: Drive improvements in resource efficiency in the construction and demolition sector whilst continuing to maintain good levels of re-use and recycling performance already being achieved.

Vision Building and infrastructure projects within London will consider, at the design and planning stage of the development life-cycle, how to:  -  Design out waste at source: design out waste that might otherwise be generated during excavation, demolition and construction;  -  Drive improvements in resource efficiency: maximise use of reclaimed materials or components with recycled content;  -  Maintain existing re-use and recycling performance of CDE waste in London: design with end-of-life impacts in mind, such that     opportunities for re-use, refurbishment and recycling of structures or components are maximised in the future

-  Existing developments will incorporate these standards where possible during refurbishment and maintenance work where there is     potential to generate CDE waste.

Vision to policy The Mayor will use the planning regime in London and supporting planning guidance to engage developers, architects and designers in assessing the opportunities for designing out waste at source and improving the overall resource efficiency of buildings and infrastructure projects. The planning regime will be further utilised to ensure that developers and their contractors make plans to maximise the opportunities for re-use and recycling of waste that might be created, such that London’s good re-use and recycling performance of CDE waste can be maintained.  To support this, the Mayor will work with delivery organisations, such as LWARB, to help fund delivery of the necessary infrastructure for CDE waste re-use and recycling.

Policy to Action Proposal 4.1: Use policy and regulatory requirements to design out waste at source and drive resource efficiency improvements. Proposal 4.2: Engage developers, architects and designers in taking a leading role in to design out waste at source. Proposal 4.3: Support London’s construction and demolition sector to maintain existing levels of re-use, recycling and composting.

Action 5.5: Develop an ‘Olympics Standard’ pledge for London’s developers and construction contractors, which will contain a commitment to meeting the London Plan target of 95% re-use and recycling of CDE waste.

17.	What do you feel are the pros and cons of enforcing good waste management through the planning process?

18.	What do you think are the key considerations in designing out waste in new developments?

19.	Other comments - is there anything else you think the Mayor should be doing to achieve the vision for this policy?

20.	Do you have any further general comments or observations about this strategy? Is there anything else you think the Mayor should be doing?

About your organisation

21.	What is the name of your organisation

22.	What is your contact email?

23.	Which of the following best describes the type of organsiation you're responding on behalf of?
	A London Borough
	Other public sector
	The third sector
	The waste sector
	Business in the commercial or industrial sector
	Business in the construction, excavation or demolition sector
	Business sector/trade/lobby group
	Other

	Please specify

24.	Approximately how many people does your organisation employ?
	0-50
	51-250
	251+