Energy
Waste
Water and Sewage
Transport
Green Blue
Buildings & land use
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Tool summary

Name of the tool
Indicating Right: environmental performance indicators for the waste management sector

Description of the tool
The tool consists of 27 environmental performance indicators, covering climate change; transport; water use; land use and wildlife; regulatory compliance; environmental management systems; waste minimisation/resource productivity and neighbourliness, for the waste management sector. The indicators have been developed in conjunction with waste companies and leading waste organisation, and have been endorsed by eleven waste companies, as well as by the Environmental Services Association, Friends of the Earth, the Institute of Waste Management and Waste Watch. The indicators have been designed to be reported on annually. A number of waste companies already report on an annual basis (e.g. Shanks and Waste Recycling Group) and one company every other year (Biffa).

Specific topic
The tool addresses the environmental impacts of the waste management sector. The negative impacts of this sector include emissions of pollutants, the generation of odour and traffic, and the use of resources such as water and energy. The positive by-products of waste include the reuse and recycling of reuseable materials, and below these in the waste hierarchy, the recovery of energy from waste through the generation of electricity from landfill gas, and other energy from waste processes.

Sector/s of use

Waste

Energy

Water

Transport

Green/Blue

Building & Land use

M

0

1

1

1

1

M - main sector, 1 - sub sector and 0 - n/a

Scale of applications

Component

Building

Neighbourhood

City

Region

1

1

1

1

1