Below are details of other similar work that is feeding into or complementing the Mass Balance programme. A lot of the work is being developed as spin off initiatives within the individual mass balance projects.
Waste Implementation Programme
or WIP as it is commonly known responds to measures recommended by the Government's Strategy Unit report "Waste Not, Want Not" on a variety of sustainable waste management issues...read more
Waste and Resources Research Advisory Group
set up to assist Defra's waste research team to assist in the team's development of a strategy for a three year £15m research and development programme... read more
Sustainability Development Unit
its work includes the development of a UK strategy to set out how government facilitates the delivery of sustainable development... read more
Resources and Energy Analysis Programme (REAP)
the Stockholm Environment Institute, in collaboration with the The Centre for Urban and Regional Ecology (Manchester University) and Cambridge Econometrics is in the process of producing an integrated resource-environment modelling tool based on policy scenarios... read more
Regional and Welsh Appraisal for Resource and Development (REWARD)
is a partnership including most of the English Regional Development Agencies and the National Assembly for Wales and is being led by the Environment Agency... read more
Ecological Budget UK
seeks to provide powerful & comparable information together with a software tool REAP to inform decisions aimed at reducing our environmental impacts...read more
Sustainable Consumption and Production.net (SCPnet)
aims to use data and evidence about consumption and production as the foundation for more sustainable policy and practice in the regions... read more
National Industrial Symbiosis Programme (NISP)
is the first industrial symbiosis initiative in the world to be launched on a national scale and is at the forefront of industrial symbiosis thinking and practice globally... read more