Defra announces three-year waste research strategy
September 30, 2004
Defra's Chief Scientific Advisor, Professor Howard Dalton, announced a new research strategy to help the Government's sustainable waste management policy.
The Waste Implementation Programme (WIP) will provide £5 million for the research programme, with first calls for proposals likely to be made in November 2004.
Research will be based on eight key themes - sustainable resource consumption and management, systems for resource recovery, residual wastes management, market development and intervention, social dimensions, environment and health risks, economics and decision tools.
Professor Howard Dalton said: "With good management, we can achieve greater national resource productivity and a cleaner, better-protected environment. To achieve these goals we need a solid evidence base and this waste research strategy, with its strategic focus and plans for disseminating research results, should help us to get closer to this goal."
The full strategy document can be found at the Defra website.
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