Including the closely related term circular economy.
… Mitigation and Energy Efficiency 22 Our waste: Waste and Plastics and the Circular Economy 29 Our air: Improving Air Quality 35 Our nature: Green Infrastructure and Biodiversity 42 Our water: Water Management and Flood Abatement 49 LONDON BOROUGH OF RICHMOND UPON THAMES - CLIMATE CHANGE SUSTAINABILITY STRATEGY 2019-20243 Very late in the day, the existential and urgent crisis posed by climate…
…-202416 Our waste: Waste and Plastics and the Circular Economy – We will embed reduce, reuse, recycle into everything Richmond does around waste. We will work with our residents, businesses and schools to reduce the overall amount of waste generated in the borough and will aim to be one of the top performing boroughs in London for recycling. We are committed to supporting residents to reduce…
… the amount of single use plastic they consume and to promote the Circular Economy across the borough. Our key target is to reduce the amount of waste generated in the borough Our air: Improving Air Quality – We will develop and deliver an ambitious air quality plan that will make a meaningful change to air quality in the borough with an emphasis on reducing air pollution particularly around schools…
… will play an important role in developing and promoting a Circular Economy, with a greater emphasis required on minimising the environmental impact from resource use including procurement and supply chain, use and lifecycle and end of life management. Taking these approaches should ultimately deliver improved cost management. In addition, the Council controls a substantial investment portfolio…
… a Circular Economy in Richmond. We will develop a Sustainable Procurement Strategy using social value approaches which will provide a framework against which we have set measurable aims and objectives for integrating environmental and social considerations into our procurement policies and practices allowing the continuous process of accessing our products and suppliers. It will detail…