Lib Dem alternative budget
Policy Consultation 1 March 2005
Comment from the Liberal Democrats, the Conservatives, the Construction Products Association, Nationwide and Biffa Waste Services.
Forum Brief: Budget - Environment
Policy Consultation 17 March 2004
Comment from the Liberal Democrats; The Woodland Trust and the National Farmers Union, and the Construction Products Association
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Forum Brief: Waste strategy
Policy Consultation 8 September 2003
Biffa Waste Services has invited the ePolitix.com Forum to comment on the costs of delivering the government's waste strategy.
Forum Brief: Recycling
Policy Consultation 29 August 2003
Despite families recycling almost twice as much rubbish as five years ago, the government's targets on waste have still not been met.
Forum Brief: Waste
Policy Consultation 28 July 2003
EU waste directives could cause a repeat of the fridge mountain crisis unless more thought is given to the implementation of future recycling legislation, the Better Regulation Task Force has
Forum Brief: Recycling
Policy Consultation 16 July 2003
Biffa Waste Services has invited ePolitix Forum members to comment on the issue of Producer Responsibility, asking whether manufacturers should do more to reuse recovered materials.
Forum Brief: Waste management
Policy Consultation 22 May 2003
The government's waste management policy is in disarray according to a committee of MPs.
Forum Brief: Budget - Environment
Policy Consultation 9 April 2003
Gordon Brown has announced a range of environmental measures in his Budget.
Forum Brief: Waste management
Policy Consultation 19 March 2003
Environment minister Michael Meacher sets out the government's position on waste management issues.
Forum Brief: Waste management
Policy Consultation 6 March 2003
Minister for the Environment, Michael Meacher MP, formally invited members of the ePolitix.com Forum to email in their views on waste management.
Forum Brief: Consumer culture
Policy Consultation 7 February 2003
Environment secretary Margaret Beckett has criticised the "old pattern" of "produce, use, discard" in Britain's consumer culture.
Forum Brief: Pre-Budget Report - Environment
Policy Consultation 28 November 2002
The landfill tax is to nearly treble over the next decade from £13 to £35 a tonne.
Forum Brief: Hazardous waste landfill sites
Policy Consultation 17 September 2002
The Environment Agency has announced the upgrading of 222 landfill sites across England and Wales to take hazardous waste.
