Including 8 closely related terms such as new waste strategy, new waste, and waste.
… Consumer choices and waste – creating a new Waste Strategy to substantially increase recycling in Leicester and setting up a network of drinking water refill points in the city centre to reduce single-use plastic bottles. At work – providing grants for small and medium-sized businesses to reduce their carbon emissions and cut their energy costs. Also creating new, low-carbon business units…
… 2023 Page 12 of 57 city is, in part, responsible for. This includes emissions from generating the electricity households and organisations use, from producing the goods and services everyone buys and from dealing with waste generated in the city. The strategy focuses principally on what the council can do about city-wide emissions and its own emissions, based on its main areas…
… and a successful economy – while protecting the environment and conserving natural resources. Aligns with, and helps to implement, the Climate Emergency Strategy through actions to reduce food waste and the ecological footprint of the food system – including its carbon emissions. Updated plan for 2020-2025 to be published in 2020 on the council website. Leicester Tree Strategy 2018-2023 Guides…
… the food we consume •Deforestation •Beef, lamb, dairy - methane •Intensive production methods •Air miles Emissions elsewhere from producing the goods we buy •Raw materials - mining, quarrying, deforestation •Manufacturing and transport •Mains water production Emissions resulting from our waste •Methane from food in landfill •Waste collection, haulage, treatment •Making new goods…
… and scope of this strategy 11 Leicester’s impact on climate change 14 Our achievements so far 16 Playing our part 19 Responses to Leicester’s Climate Emergency Conversation 21 Our Strategy for the City 24 Preface to the strategy: lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic and opportunities for a ‘green recovery’ 24 Aims 25 At home 26 Travel and transport 29 Consumer choices and waste 34…