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Recycling

British Cement Association

Recycling contaminated land using cement, 1997
Explains how the current pressures on land for development are leading to the use of contaminated sites.
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Building Research Establishment

Report 356 Household waste: storage provision and recycling, 1998
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Report 420 Reed beds for the treatment of domestic wastewater, 2001
This report has drawn upon work from around the world to produce an up to date guide to reed beds. The design guidance contained in this report covers the most common types of reed beds that are likely to be employed in the UK in the near future. The common systems covered are: Vertical flow, Horizontal flow, for secondary treatment, and. Horizontal flow, for tertiary treatment.
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Digest 447 Waste minimisation on a construction site, 2000
Although individual building material producers and building contractors are establishing waste minimisation schemes, the full benefit of these schemes will not be realised until the waste arisings from the construction process are independently examined and quantified. Also, the rising costs of raw materials and the cost of waste disposal due to the introduction and ramping up of landfill tax will increase interest in waste minimisation schemes. This digest demonstrates the level of savings that can be achieved through the implementation of a properly designed and managed waste minimisation system. The results challenge the commonly held view that construction waste minimisation is cost inefficient by showing that an effective waste minimisation system on a construction site is an efficient and cost-effective way of operating.
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Cabinet Office

Waste not, want not, 2002
This report analyses the problem of waste production, disposal and management. It suggests that the focus of strategy needs to be on reducing, re-using and recycling waste, with reformed incentives and regulations; and that government, local authorities, industry and households, all need to play a part in containing the problem.
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Chartered Institute of Building

Recycling waste from the construction site, 1995
The objective of this study was to examine in detail waste material produced on a variety of construction sites, and with the help of waste management companies, to examine which surplus materials occur in sufficient quantities to make recycling a viable proposition.
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Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Recycling and waste: electrical and electronic equipment. EC directives on waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE) and the restriction of the use of certain hazardous substances in electrical and electronic equipment (RoHS), 2003
Answers to frequently asked questions on the directives published in 2003.
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Department of the Environment

Industry Profile Waste recycling, treatment and disposal sites - landfills and other waste treatment or waste disposal sites, 1996
To provide regulators, developers and other interested parties with authoritative and researched advice on how best to identify, assess and tackle the problems associated with land contamination. The publications cannot address the specific circumstances of each site, since every site is unique. The Contaminated Land Research Report series deals with information needed to assess risks - procedures for categorising and assessing risks - and evaluation and selection of remedial measures.
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Industry Profile Waste recycling, treatment and disposal sites: drum and tank cleaning and recycling plants, 1996
To provide regulators, developers and other interested parties with authoritative and researched advice on how best to identify, assess and tackle the problems associated with land contamination. The publications cannot address the specific circumstances of each site, since every site is unique. The Contaminated Land Research Report series deals with information needed to assess risks - procedures for categorising and assessing risks - and evaluation and selection of remedial measures.
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Industry Profile Waste recycling, treatment and disposal sites: hazardous waste treatment plants, 1996
To provide regulators, developers and other interested parties with authoritative and researched advice on how best to identify, assess and tackle the problems associated with land contamination. The publications cannot address the specific circumstances of each site, since every site is unique. The Contaminated Land Research Report series deals with information needed to assess risks - procedures for categorising and assessing risks - and evaluation and selection of remedial measures.
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Industry Profile Waste recycling, treatment and disposal sites: metal recycling sites, 1995
To provide regulators, developers and other interested parties with authoritative and researched advice on how best to identify, assess and tackle the problems associated with land contamination. The publications cannot address the specific circumstances of each site, since every site is unique. The Contaminated Land Research Report series deals with information needed to assess risks - procedures for categorising and assessing risks - and evaluation and selection of remedial measures.
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Industry Profile Waste recycling, treatment and disposal sites: solvent recovery works, 1996
To provide regulators, developers and other interested parties with authoritative and researched advice on how best to identify, assess and tackle the problems associated with land contamination. The publications cannot address the specific circumstances of each site, since every site is unique. The Contaminated Land Research Report series deals with information needed to assess risks - procedures for categorising and assessing risks - and evaluation and selection of remedial measures.
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Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions

Aggregates Advisory Service Digest 064 Reuse and recycling of contaminated soils, 1999
This digest briefly describes the technologies available to treat contaminated soils .
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Environmental Industries Commission

Zero waste-resource strategy: problem into opportunity, 1996
This publication is divided into the following sections; a strategy; policy implications and; priority actions.
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Office of the Deputy Prime Minister

Planning for sustainable waste management: companion guide to planning policy statement 10, 2006
Supports the implementation of planning policy statement 10: Planning for sustainable waste management, within the wider context of reforms of the land use planning system. It provides advice, ideas, examples of current practice and signposts to further sources of information that will be of relevance to planning authorities, to developers and to communities.
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Thomas Telford

Advances in Waste Management 1 Sustainable waste management, 2004
Presents part of the proceedings of two symposia held under the umbrella of Advances in waste management, an international meeting organised by the University of Dundee's Concrete Technology Unit.

Advances in Waste Management 2 Recycling and reuse of waste materials, 2004
Presents part of the proceedings of two symposia held under the umbrella of Advances in waste management, an international meeting organised by the University of Dundee's Concrete Technology Unit.

Transport Research Laboratory

Viridis Publications - Report VR 2 Tyre waste and resource management: a mass balance approach, 2002
Currently over 400,000 tonnes per annum of post-consumer tyres are generated in the UK. With traffic forecasts predicted to increase this number is only likely to increase. In order to quantify the current situation in the Tyre Industry mass balance models were developed to generate post-consumer tyre arisings by region, and resource use and environmental impacts of tyre manufacture, tyre use and tyre reprocessing. Post-consumer tyre arisings were generated for base year of 1998 and predicted for future years. These were compared with estimated future reprocessing capacities. The other mass balance models. gave data on the resource use from tyre manufacture, use and reprocessing.
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Viridis Publications - Report VR 3 Status of post-consumer tyres in the European Union, 2002
Official reports indicate that more than 2,500,000 tonnes of post-consumer tyres are permanently removed from vehicles each year in the 15 Member States of the European Union and must be disposed in an environmentally sound and sustainable manner. However, both collectors and those who provide alternative treatment and disposal routes dispute these figures. Describes the status quo across the European Union (EU) concerning the practices and procedures currently used to collect, interpret and report information on post-consumer tyres and to present the current situation in terms of tyre flows and the valorisation of post-consumer tyres.
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Worldwatch Institute

Paper 135 Recycling organic waste: from urban pollutant to farm resource, 1997
This paper looks at how recycling organic matter from cities to farms would help to solve many of the worlds current environmental problems.
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Regional planning

Action with Communities in Rural England

Regional planning - affordable rural housing, 1994
This publication covers; why regional planning is important; aims, procedures and content; housing and; future direction. It also includes a region by region roundup.
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Association of London Government

Green and pleasant London, 1991
Presents the wide range of initiatives that London boroughs are taking both to tackle the problems caused by human activity in the built environment, and to improve the natural environment.
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Audit Commission

Urban regeneration and economic development: the local government dimension, 1989
This paper reviews the local government dimension and looks at how friction between the three main actors in urban regeneration - central government, local government and the private sector - can be reduced. A checklist of key questions for local authorities, to address the impact of Europe on their economic development activities.
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Council for the Protection of Rural England

Over the top? The Government's plans for trans-Pennine transport, 1994
This leaflet provides answers to questions about the Government's plans for trans-Pennine transport and suggests ways in which the reader can influence Government thinking.
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Greening the regions: regional planning guidance, 1994
This document explores the role of RPG, highlights shortcomings in practice and makes proposals for reform.
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Motorway mania: London orbitals or concrete circles?, 1993
What are the Government's plans for the road network in the South East? This leaflet provides the answers and suggests ways in which the reader can help to influence Government thinking.
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South East regional planning guidance, 1991
This publication is divided into seven main sections; the environment and the economy; housing; the countryside; transport; resources; the geographical dimension; and implementation.
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Regional planning guidance for East Anglia, 1991
The RPG for East Anglia sets out a guiding framework for the preparation of development plans in the region.
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Regional planning guidance for the Northern region, 1993
A response by the Council for the Protection of Rural England to the Department of the Environment's draft Regional Planning Guidance note.
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Development plans and regional planning guidance, 1991
Comments on the Government's draft Planning Policy Guidance note, PPG 12.
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Planning for a regional renaissance, 2001
CPRE's proposals for the continuing reform of Regional Planning Guidance - for the better protection of the countryside.
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What you measure matters. A green approach to competitiveness, 1998
CPRE believes that the Government's programme for promoting regional competitiveness should recognise the importance of a high quality environment, and incorporate quality of life indicators when measuring progress. Providing a comparison of how each English region ranks against a range of environmental indicators as set up by the DTI.
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Council of Europe

Outlook for sustainable development and its implications on regional/spatial planning, 1993
This programme is carried out in a framework of seminars centred on the quest for solutions best able to provide lasting and balanced responses to the different aspects of the numerous challenges facing European society with the approach of the year 2000.
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English Heritage

Growing places - heritage and a sustainable future for the Thames Gateway, 2005
Demonstrates how English Heritage, as lead strategic body for the historic environment, can help partners working at national, regional and local levels of engagement to use the historic environment as a powerful force for making settlements popular, attractive, economically successful, environmentally friendly and sustainable, specifically focusing on the Thames Gateway.
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Conservation issues in strategic plans, 1993
This new guidance follows earlier advice on conservation, which was targeted on planning at metropolitan and district levels. It marks a new direction because of its wider range, development of new ideas, and focus on the strategic level of planning.
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Environment Council

Who's who in the environment: Wales, 1995
This directory provides a guide to environmental organisations, explaining who doe what, where and the services they provide, as well as indicating which organisations employ volunteers.
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Who's who in the environment: Northern Ireland, 1994
This directory provides a guide to environmental organisations, explaining who doe what, where and the services they provide, as well as indicating which organisations employ volunteers.
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Who's who in the environment: England, 1995
This directory provides a guide to environmental organisations, explaining who does what, where, and the services they provide, as well as indicating which organisations employ volunteers.
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Who's who in the environment: Scotland, 1996
This directory provides a guide to environmental organisations, explaining who doe what, where and the services they provide, as well as indicating which organisations employ volunteers.
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Environmental Industries Commission

Sustainable regional development through waste minimisation and environmental improvement, 1998
This publication is divided into the following sections; definitions; the challenge; industrial action; evidence of financial benefits; a long way to go; EIC proposals for working group action and; conclusions and recommendations.
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European Commission

European sustainable cities. 2nd edition, 1996
This report provides a framework for local action and identifies a set of principles to use in setting goals and in evaluating and monitoring progress towards sustainability in urban areas. These principles are; the principle of urban management; the principle of policy integration; the principle of ecosystems thinking and; the principle of cooperation and partnership.
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Office of the Deputy Prime Minister

Sustainable communities: an urban development corporation for the London Thames Gateway - a consultation paper, 2003
This consultation paper discusses the options for setting out an action programme to deliver sustainable communities for all in the area of the London Thames Gateway. In this area, the focus and special powers of an Urban Development Corporation (UDC) will be required to deliver the necessary change and maximise private investment. This consultation paper also describes the powers of the new UDC and the composition of the Board required to ensure it delivers sustainable regeneration.
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Creating sustainable communities in London, 2005
To deliver a balance between housing supply and demand and thus ensure people have decent places to live. Also addresses the issues of disadvantage. Looks at improving the delivery of services and promoting regional development.
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Creating sustainable communities in the South East, 2005
To deliver a balance between housing supply and demand and thus ensure people have decent places to live. Also addresses the issues of disadvantage. Looks at improving the delivery of services, promoting regional development and improving the level of skills in the workforce.
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Creating sustainable communities in the South West, 2005
To deliver a balance between housing supply and demand and thus ensure people have decent places to live. Also addresses the issues of disadvantage. Looks at improving the delivery of services and promoting regional development.
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Creating sustainable communities in the East Midlands, 2005
To deliver a balance between housing supply and demand and thus ensure people have decent places to live. Also addresses the issues of disadvantage. Looks at improving the delivery of services and promoting regional development.
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Creating sustainable communities in the East of England, 2005
To deliver a balance between housing supply and demand and thus ensure people have decent places to live.
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Creating sustainable communities in the West Midlands, 2005
To deliver a balance between housing supply and demand and thus ensure people have decent places to live. Also addresses the issues of disadvantage. Looks at improving the delivery of services and promoting regional development.
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Creating sustainable communities in Yorkshire and The Humber, 2005
To deliver a balance between housing supply and demand and thus ensure people have decent places to live. Also addresses the issues of disadvantage. Looks at improving the delivery of services and promoting regional development.
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Creating sustainable communities in the North West, 2005
To deliver a balance between housing supply and demand and thus ensure people have decent places to live. Also addresses the issues of disadvantage. Looks at improving the delivery of services and promoting regional development.
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Creating sustainable communities: greening the gateway. Implementation plan, 2005
Sets out the Government's vision for the Thames Gateway as a model of sustainable development. This plan sets out the delivery framework, and clarifies how Government, its agencies and its funding will support the delivery of green space. It also broadly outlines the strategic roles envisaged for other delivery agents in the region and how these contribute to the overall framework.
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Religious facilities

Cathedral Communications Ltd

Historic churches - the conservation and repair of ecclesiastical buildings, 2000
Covers the following topics; Thomas Cocke's 21st century issues; church lighting for the millennium; latest developments in conservation technology; the Palace of Westminster's new chapel organ.
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Conservation and repair of ecclesiastical buildings, 1996
Covers the following topics; conservation and repair techniques; keeping church doors open; underside lead corrosion; lighting design for best effect and; medieval brasses and floor tiles.
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English Heritage

Smoke detection systems for cathedrals, 1997
Much of the content of this advisory note is based on the recommendations of BS 5839 and is complemented by advice on the problems which can arise (for example interference with historic fabric) when systems are installed in cathedrals.
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New work in historic places of worship, 2003
Sets out the principles that English Heritage applies when considering proposals for the alteration or extension of historic places of worship. It is aimed at those responsible for formulating proposals and making decisions about such buildings.
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