Waste and Resources Action Plan. (May 2006) Environmental benefits of recycling: An international review of life cycle comparisons for key materials in the UK recycling sector. Waste &Resources Action plan. Oxon.
A recurring theme in the debates that surround wasyte and resources management is te extent to which the rcycling of materials offer genuine benefits to the environment. often, critics of the policy drive toards grater recycling assert that the act of recycling may in fact have little or no benefit to the environment, suggesting that more energy may be used in getting materials to the recycling facility than is saved by the process of recycling. This study is the largest and most comprehensive international review of Life Cycle Analysis (LCA) work on key materials that are often collected for recycling- paper/cardboard, plasics, aluminium, steel, glass, wood and aggregate.
The results are clear. Across the board, most studies show that recycling offers more environmental benefits and lower environmental impacts than other waste management options. [Open]
Working Neighbourhoods Fund. (Nov 2007)
As part of a concentrated drive to get people off welfare and into training and work the Government has decided to establish a new Working Neighbourhoods Fund which will focus on the most deprived areas and which will support local authorities and communities in their efforts to tackle worklessness and the other elements of deprivation.This new fund will replace Communities and Local Government's Neighbourhood Renewal Fund and incorporate the Department for work and Pensions Deprived Areas Fund to create a single fund at local level. [Open]
