A new plan which sets out how Greater Manchester businesses and residents can reduce waste and create a more circular economy is to be rolled out.
Greater Manchester Combined Authority (GMCA) approved its Sustainable Consumption Plan (SCP) on 24 June 2022. The SCP supports the region’s five-year Environment Plan which was launched at the GM Green Summit in 2019.
GMCA says the SCP highlights what is needed to move Greater Manchester’s businesses to a model that is more reliant on reusing and recycling materials and how to empower residents to make more sustainable lifestyle choices, helping to achieve the region’s ambitions of becoming carbon neutral by 2038.
The plan sets out four priorities to do this: Moving to a Circular Economy, Managing Waste Sustainably, Reducing Food Waste, and Moving to Sustainable Lifestyles.
To create a circular economy in Greater Manchester, the SCP Plan highlights a need for industries to produce more sustainable products that are in use longer and use raw materials as a last resort.
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