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Slack Bloggers Anonymous

Yazan: Lucy | 10 January 2010 | 1 Comment
Categories: Goings On

My name is Lucy and I’m a slack blogger.
I have an excuse of course.  You may, if you have a good memory, recall that my last post mentioned the depletion of my team.  Well, I finally fixed that in mid-December when we found the money to get someone in to cover for the poor soul [...]

What’s going on?

Yazan: Lucy | 23 October 2009 | No Comments
Categories: Goings On

My best intentions of blogging more often have been undermined by sheer workload, especially now parliament are back.  Look out for all the Parliamentary Questions on waste hitting a Hansard near you! 
Anyway, things are happening:
Hilary Benn’s vision for a World Without Waste.  Read it, it’s good
More ’stakeholder engagement’ (otherwise known as ‘talking to [...]

Controlled Waste Regulations 1992

Yazan: Lucy | 14 March 2009 | 2 Comments
Categories: Legislation

We’ve finally published a timetable for our review of Schedule 2 of the Controlled Waste Regulations 19
Schedule 2 of the CWR sets out types of premises which produce ‘household waste’ (as defined in the Environmental Protection Act 1990) but which a local authority can charge for collection of the waste.  The Regulations are now 16 [...]

The Value of Rubbish

Yazan: Lucy | 12 February 2009 | 2 Comments
Categories: Recycling

Yes, I’m back after yet another hiatus, this time due to a holiday, a chest infection and an obscene number of Parliamentary Questions (thankfully not all at once). 
Coming back from London last night, I noticed that NXEC are now separating out waste into paper, plastics and rubbish.  This set me off thinking about the value [...]

Incineration, energy recovery, and landfill

Yazan: Lucy | 31 December 2008 | 1 Comment
Categories: Recycling

Another post that’s actually a reply, but mostly because I was so slack in replying that I didn’t think Mark would see it otherwise! 
in light of the latest EA stats showing the decline in landfill use and under utilisation of incineration capacity, what do you believe the requirements really are for new infrastructure under the [...]

Legislation, Regulation and Consternation

Yazan: Lucy | 21 December 2008 | 2 Comments
Categories: General Witterings, Legislation

One of the most interesting things about this new job is the amount of legislation associated with it.  I used to work in Flood Management, which was largely governed by permissive legislation (i.e. it allows certain bodies to do certain things, but doesn’t require them to).  Waste Management, on the other hand, is overflowing with [...]

Home composting

Yazan: Lucy | 12 November 2008 | 7 Comments
Categories: Recycling

Yes, this is another ‘cheat’ post – being an answer to Mark that outgrew the comments box of my last post:
you miss out an important point in discussing the recycling rate – its only the measured recycling rate from the councils, so it excludes the volume of waste composted at home (if you put your [...]

Good News and Bad News

Yazan: Lucy | 11 November 2008 | 1 Comment
Categories: Recycling

There’s never one without the other, especially in the Civil Service.
The Good News is very good news indeed (although a little late since I have not been very disciplined at writing this blog!) – Defra released statistics last Thursday showing that most local authorities increased the proportion of household waste that was recycled or composted in 2007/08.  [...]

Comitology

Yazan: Lucy | 04 November 2008 | 3 Comments
Categories: Things I Learned Today

After a short break, I’m back into the swing of things at work, and resurrecting my blog from it’s slumbers.
Today I learned the meaning of the word ‘Comitology’, and sadly it is not the scientific study of wandering snowballs from the Kuiper belt…
‘Comitology’ is the delegated legislative procedure in EC law, more correctly know as [...]