NIEL Recommendations
- Develop a NI resource efficiency/circular economy roadmap to identify medium and long–term priorities and actions to facilitate the transition from a linear to a circular economy
- Introduce measures to reduce single use plastic usage
- Actively promote research to support industry innovation around re–use and upcycling of re–processed goods
- Invoke the ‘polluter pays’ principle and extend producer responsibility for packaging, ensuring that producers pay the full costs of disposal for packaging they place on the market
- Stimulate demand for recycled plastic by introducing a tax on plastic packaging with less than 30% recycled plastic
- Improve recycling rates by ensuring a consistent set of dry recyclable materials is collected from all households and businesses
- Reduce greenhouse gas emissions from landfill by ensuring that every householder and appropriate businesses have a weekly separate food waste collection, subject to consultation
- Work towards all plastic packaging placed on the market being recyclable, reusable or compostable by 2025
- Work towards eliminating food waste to landfill by 2030
- Improve public awareness and encourage behavioural change by promoting the delivery of innovative Waste Prevention Communications
- Promote robust regulation and enforcement to tackle waste crime, including illegal landfilling and fly tipping – toughen penalties for waste criminals
- Develop more uniform collection and recycling infrastructure across Northern Ireland
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Links
- Arc21
- Belfast City Council
- Bryson Recycling
- Department for Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs
- Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
- European Commission
- Friends of the Earth NI
- Keep Northern Ireland Beautiful
- Love Food Hate Waste
- NetRegs
- North West Region Waste Management Group
- Rethink Waste NI
- Sustainable Northern Ireland
- WRAP
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