Preventing waste

Less Waste: More Value, the UK Government's consultation paper on the waste strategy for England and Wales, was published in June 1998; A Waste Management Strategy for Northern Ireland was issued in June 1998, and the draft National Waste Strategy for Scotland: A Blueprint for Progress 1997-2001, published by SEPA in March 1997.

1. Reducing waste

1. Preventing production of hazardous wastes
2. Preventing illegal international traffic in hazardous wastes
3. Marketing compost

1. Managing wastes

1. Supporting industry in phasing-out processes generating high risk hazardous waste

1. Wastage
2. Avoidance