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<p>The Greening Government Commitments (GGCs) require central Government Departments
and their executive and non-executive agencies to improve their waste management by
reducing the amount of waste going to landfill to less than 10%; continuing to reduce
the overall amount of waste generated and increasing the proportion which is recycled;
and reducing their paper use by at least 50% from a 2009/10 baseline.</p><p> </p><p>Compared
with the 2009/10 baseline, by 2015/16 Departments had reduced their overall waste
by 27% and their paper consumption by 44%. The proportion of waste sent to landfill
in 2015/16 had been reduced to 13% across Government. The target to increase recycling
was introduced for the 2016/17 financial year, and this data will be published shortly
in the 2016/17 Annual Report on the GGCs, along with 2016/17 figures for the other
GGC goals.</p><p> </p><p>Departments are responsible for making decisions about how
to achieve these goals in line with the priorities of their own functions, but their
performance is reported annually in the Annual Report on the GGCs. Defra and Cabinet
Office Ministers follow up any significant issues with performance with individual
Departments.</p>
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