... of this millennium. The low cost of waste collection in the UK during the early 1990s (a consequence of the Thatcher government's compulsory competitive tendering policy resulting in larger capacity collection vehicles with smaller crews) and a tendency towards a smaller number of larger capacity landfills meant...

... plants (DECC, 2011). To reach the landfill diversion targets for 2013 and 2020 based on the EU landfill directive, the UK government has set in place two legislative instruments – the landfill allowance trading scheme (LATS) and the landfill tax. 08 03 2012 30 07 2012 ICE...

... explicitly (e.g. quantity of resource consumed or pollution emitted) and to establish prices accordingly; for example, the approach recently adopted by government economists in respect of carbon dioxide pricing, whereby the shadow price of carbon dioxide is taken to be the point at which enough carbon...

... © 2009 Thomas Telford Ltd 2009 government landfill waste management & disposal The UK Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) Waste Strategy for England 2007 states that ‘waste is a drag on the economy and business productivity’. 1 Businesses...

... on which these forward policies are likely to be painted. It would seem logical to think of these impacts around the following areas of context scale of impact current levels of adaptation product and output implications wider government initiatives and feedback effects structural...