The Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs wishes to identify and estimate opportunities for financial and environmental savings through material resource efficiency (e.g. waste prevention, reuse and recycling) in the metals, chemicals and construction sectors, with a view to focusing future government support most effectively. In the context of this project, metal products, pharmaceuticals and plastic products are included.
This research aims to provide new evidence for the size and nature of potential savings and hence to guide policies in the forthcoming Government Strategy on Resources and Waste, and to support Government ambition in doubling resource productivity by 2050, as published in the Industrial Strategy.
This survey aims to gather information from relevant trade associations and businesses to gain insight into what might be realistic in terms of further resource efficiency action.
We are interested in:
any successful projects/case studies to increase yield, and reduce waste and operational costs;
the extent to which this good practice has been adopted;
the barriers to resource efficiency, any failed initiatives and reasons for their failure;
the remaining potential to further reduce waste and increase yield among your members; and
what it would take (in terms of the economics, technology and related Government policy) to realise that potential.
Examples might include re-design of products, process efficiency improvements, material substitution, improved material re-use and recycling, etc.
Any information you can supply will help us to target future policy and assistance as effectively as possible.
