Thursday, November 29, 2007

Regional Waste Plans can only get better

regional waste plans.

  • Jane Davidson's figure of 70% recycling is admirable - and can be brought forward from 2020 with popular support
  • her "new directions" document knocks back the predictions for "residual waste" in the Regional Plans and all the company expectations of massive incinerators, gasifiers and pyrolysis plants,
  • municipal waste is not increasing at the 4% per year assumed in the plans, but near zero - and should decrease as people turn to reduce and recycle
  • these regional plans should be shelved, pending the issuing of the WAG/Jane Davidson's new waste strategy for discussion and adoption in the New Year.

Tuesday, November 27, 2007

stop Wales being carpeted with incinerators

Last spring 4 of the South East Wales Local authorities (LAs) were grouping together to source a residual waste treatment plant, codename Prosiect Gwyrdd (Project Green Wash). MBT was mentioned but then the focus shifted to EfW

There was a fairly good chance of influencing the LAs until WAG announced their capital spending fund for partnership working on waste projects would only awarded to EfW plants, not MBT. This decision seems to have been taken after seeing the Hyder report they commissioned for the Regional Waste Plan consultations. This, in turn, seems to be based on the WRATE analysis they did of the options.

The WRATE analysis Hyder did was biased in favour of EfW, the WAG should reconsider their position and stop Wales being carpeted with incinerators.