This paper examines waste prevention – the “reduce, reuse” part of the solid waste management hierarchy. It summarizes research findings on prevention – some generated as background papers in 2007 as part of DEQ’s Waste Prevention Strategy development — and supplements with a more recent literature review. DEQ’s Waste Prevention Strategy is also summarized. This paper concludes with a status re...

Over the past 50 years a comprehensive regulatory framework for radioactive substances in the UK has been progressively introduced, important initial milestones being the white paper Cmnd 884 and the Radioactive Substances Act 1960. During the 1970s and 1980s there were a succession of enquiries and white papers which developed from the growing awareness of the problems of the nuclear waste leg...