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Forum Brief: Waste reduction
Policy Consultation 12 August 2003
The environment minister, Elliot Morley, has announced that £135 million will be made available to local authorities from the Waste Minimisation and Recycling Fund.
Forum Brief: Waste management
Policy Consultation 7 May 2003
The government has opted against a national collection charge to punish householders who do not recycle rubbish.
Forum Brief: Budget - Environment
Policy Consultation 9 April 2003
Gordon Brown has announced a range of environmental measures in his Budget.
Forum Brief: Nuclear waste
Policy Consultation 31 March 2003
Around four million cubic metres of nuclear waste has been "discovered" by a government advisory body.
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: Abandoned cars
Policy Consultation 14 January 2003
A report out today from the Institute for European Environmental Policy warns that 250,000 more vehicles will be abandoned on British streets each year because of the government's decision to
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.
