Our strategy
Oxfordshire Waste Partnership (OWP) agreed a Joint Municipal Waste Management Strategy in January 2007. This sets out our plans for dealing with Oxfordshire's municipal waste through to 2030.
Main themes of the strategy
Reduce
We will provide advice and services to help householders reduce waste. We will also set a good example by reducing our own waste.
Reuse
We will work with householders, schools, businesses and the community, to reuse waste.
Recycling and composting
As a minimum, we will achieve a combined recycling and composting rate of at least:
- 40% of household waste by 2010
- 45% of household waste by 2015,
- 55% of household waste by 2020,
Dealing with residual waste
We will build new waste facilities to recover value from residual waste. Instead of being landfilled, it can be made into useful products or used to generate power.
Dealing with hazardous waste
We will encourage the separation of hazardous wastes so they can be safely managed.
Land use planning
We will work together to ensure that new waste facilities are built in suitable locations, using the Waste Planning role of Oxfordshire County Council.
Creating markets
We will help to develop markets for the recyclable materials that we collect.
Working in partnership
We will improve our waste management services by working together through Oxfordshire Waste Partnership and with others.
Strategy development
The strategy has been developed by OWP following an extensive review of waste management in Oxfordshire. This review evaluated the options available for the collection and treatment of waste to ensure that the best approach is adopted. Options were evaluated against environmental, social and financial criteria.
The environmental impacts of the Strategy have been examined further through an independent Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA). The results of which, have been used to identify options with the least potential harm to the environment.
Community involvement
A community panel made up of Oxfordshire residents met four times to help develop the strategy. In addition to this a wider public engagement exercise was completed in spring 2006 to gain views on waste management issues.
File attachments
The main 'core' strategy document and all the supporting annexes can be downloaded here:
- OWP Strategy Action plan 2009/12 (.pdf format, 85Kb)
- Oxfordshire Joint Municipal Waste Management Strategy (.pdf format, 492Kb)
- Annex A - Oxfordshire Waste Partnership Action Plan (.pdf format, 324Kb)
- Annex B - Waste reduction and reuse plan (.pdf format, 499Kb)
- Annex C - Options for recycling and composting collections (.pdf format, 141Kb)
- Annex D - Options for residual waste (treatment and disposal) (.pdf format, 325Kb)
- Annex E - Community engagement and involvement (.pdf format, 878Kb)
- Annex F - Environmental Report for the Strategic Environmental Assessment of the Municipal Waste Management Strategy for Oxfordshire (.pdf format, 4.4Mb)
- Annex G - Glossary and abbreviations (.pdf format, 449Kb)
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