Our Aims

Our aims, set out in full in our company documents, include the protection, preservation and improvement of the environment for the benefit of the public by the development, provision and promotion of sustainable waste management practices and to advance the education of the public in all matters relating to this. (Sustainable waste management practices include waste minimisation, minimisation of pollution and harm from waste, reuse of waste, recycling of waste, waste recovery activities and recovery of pollutants from contaminated land in accordance with Waste Strategy for England 2007.)

We seek a better environment by encouraging a cleaner and healthier way of dealing with waste issues. We see this as essential in the fight against climate change. We support the Zero Waste Charter with its ten point plan.

Too often, members of the public, who may have had issues over the landfill or incineration proposals promoted in their own areas, have been left with the impression that Government, whether national or local, is all too ready to be influenced by the established “big business” promoters of such schemes within the waste industry and that it is time that more notice was taken of the more sustainable alternatives.

We seek an alliance of those who have concerns for health and the environment and those who are struggling to set up new and more sustainable methods. We are an organisation which can speak with authority on sustainable waste, just as, for instance, the Compost Association or the Soil Association now speak with authority in their own fields.