The CRC Energy Efficiency Scheme (previously known as the Carbon Reduction Commitment) is a new, mandatory, energy saving and carbon emissions reduction scheme for the UK.
Organisations that meet the qualification criteria,which are based on whether they were supplied with electricity by a settled half hourly meter anywhere in the organisation, and how much electricity they were supplied with through half hourly meters in 2008, will have to participate in the CRC. You may be fined if you are required to act but fail to do so.
A new scheme was announced earlier today by recycling minister Lord Henley that will allow Courtauld-style voluntary contracts designed to cut down on commercial waste and minimise the need for further regulation.
The Government has said it will plan to incorporate businesses into a voluntary responsibility deal that will mirror the Courtauld Commitment. Aimed at reducing industrial and commercial waste, the agreement will see that businesses take responsibility for the sustainable disposal of all waste generated by the operations.
The Environment Agency have managed to secure funding for a UK-wide online electronic duty of care system. The funding will meet 50% of the total cost for the system, which will replace more than 18 million paper waste transfer notes.
The internet based system will provide a more efficient system removing the mountainous paper trail behind the movement of waste in the UK.
The system will start rolling out in 2012.
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The Waste & Resources Action Programme (WRAP) have supported waste management companies in filling the waste infastructure gap with £2 million worth of grants. The funding supported 16 companies in the West Midlands with developmental services also provided to a further 21 businesses.
The project so far has allowed an extra 2 million tonnes of waste per year to be diverted from landfill in the commerical and industrial sector.
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