Paul
You are right that the Waste Management Plan for England December 2013, has replaced the Waste Strategy for England 2007, although it seems that the Government Review of Waste Policy in England 2011 is still extant. The recovery targets that were in the 2007 Strategy seem to have disappeared, leaving us with just the targets to recycle 50% of household waste and recover 70% of C&D waste by 2020, both of which are from the EU Waste Framework Directive 2008 and are targets for England as a whole. What we also still have are the 2013 and 2020 targets for diversion of waste from landfill in the EU Landfill Directive 1999, as set out in Table 8.4 in the 2007 Waste Strategy, which also apply to England as a whole. Quite how you use these to come up with a recovery target for a discrete area I am not sure. We are taking a different approach in our emerging plan (for Oxfordshire) by having an objective of minimum waste to landfill and then setting what would seem to be maximum practical targets for recycling and recovery in order to achieve that.
Peter Day
