Updated: Summary of responses added.
We want to know what you think about plans to introduce risk-based sampling for monitoring the quality and safety of spring and bottled drinking water. These proposals would implement the measures in EU directive 2015/1787.
We’re also proposing to update the current methods of analysis.
It explores the benefits and costs of reducing food waste in the UK and how policy-makers could do this.
Officials in the Government Office for Science wrote this paper based on consultation and seminars with:
The views expressed in this report do not represent Defra policy.
Read the main report: ‘From waste to resource productivity’.
This report from the former Government Chief Scientific Adviser (GCSA), Sir Mark Walport, is co-authored by Professor Ian Boyd, the Chief Scientific Adviser at the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra). It explores how we can treat waste as a valuable resource and use new technology and approaches to get the most from it in the UK. The report brings together evidence on waste from a range of industry, academic and government sources.
The report is accompanied by an evidence report that brings together evidence and opinions from a range of stakeholders. The views expressed do not represent those of the GCSA, Defra’s Chief Scientific Adviser or the UK government.
Read the related report: ‘Food waste: a response to the policy challenge’.
The Environment Agency consult the public on certain applications for the abstraction and impoundment of water.
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The Environment Agency consult the public on certain applications for the abstraction and impoundment of water.
These notices explain: