NEWS REVIEW

摘要

Resource efficiency could generate an extra £3.58bn for UK businesses by 2020, according to a new study by the Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs' (Defra). The report says that through "better regulation" further progress can be made to prevent waste, reduce costs and generate revenue from waste to create quality new products. By 2014 the Environment Agency launched 11 new End of Waste Quality Criteria that, by 2020, could help businesses save £139m a year through reduced waste management costs, and generate a further £355m a year through the sale of "new" resources that would otherwise have been disposed of.