Who wants to build it?

Waste Guzzling Monster - incinerator - sometimes called a thermal treatment -

PMG Estates and Viridor Waste Management plan to build an incinerator in Cardiff Bay. Rather than just burning the waste that is left over after recycling, with a potential capacity of 500,000 tonnes the incinerator could burn around three times as much rubbish as Cardiff sent to landfill in 2003/4 Between April 2004 and March 2005, 167,022 tonnes of waste were sent to landfill in Cardiff. Waste policy
8 Jun 2007 - They boast and day this is an Opportunity for Cardiff to lead the way in waste and resource management. Welsh property developer PMG Estates Limited, jointly owned by Paul Guy and Mike Hall, has announced exciting plans to create a state-of-the-art waste management and resource recovery facility on its Trident Park site in Cardiff Bay that would place Cardiff at the forefront of waste management practice in the UK. PMG has selected Viridor Waste Management, to be its preferred bidder to take forward the proposals. Over the coming months PMG and Viridor will be drawing up detailed plans for the £150 million scheme
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‘TRIDENT PARK, THE HUB OF CARDIFFhttp://www.tridentparkcardiffbay.co.uk/index.htm

Conrtact the directors http://www.pmg-plc.com/
Trident Park website bast that it is a prominent 50 acre site within Cardiff Bay, the vibrant and successful regeneration of Cardiff’s docklands. The park comprises ten existing warehouses and office buildings and three plots suitable for development. Less than ten years old and in excellent condition the site offers one million sq ft of capacity.PMG Estates, through a programme of refurbishment, selective demolition and new development, is creating at Trident Park a business environment that offers a wide range of accommodation to suit the Region’s future office, warehouse and industrial needs.’


MUNICIPAL RESIDUAL WASTE TREATMENT
REPORT OF CORPORATE DIRECTOR 5 July
EBM 5 July 07 Municipal Residual Waste Treatment Final
procurement of a residual waste treatment facility (Prosiect Gwyrdd),. which is in line with the...
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'The recovery of energy from residual waste that is derived after the separation of recyclable or compostable materials have been removed, this material can then be used for energy recovery through thermal treatment and for further recovery of recyclables;'

Julian Rosser, Director of Friends of the Earth Cymru commented,
"Incineration is not the best way of dealing with waste: it means burning paper and plastics that should be recycled. It's not a renewable way of generating energy because so much of the 'fuel' comes from plastics which are made from oil.
. A waste guzzling monster like this would tie us into burning lots of our rubbish for a generation. We need to be reducing the amount of waste we produce, and recycle and compost anything left."

The Green Party is totally opposed to incineration for a variety of reasons, including concerns about the effect on human health and the environment and the way that incinerators create a demand for waste. The Green Party believes in the 'zero waste' philosophy, which involves reducing the amount of waste produced, re-using, repairing and recycling materials and environmentally-friendly treatment of residual waste to recover usable materials and compost organic matter. The most effective way to reduce the amount of waste produced is through government taxes on packaging and tax incentives to encourage re-use schemes and businesses that repair and recycle. However, local councils can and must play their part in working towards zero waste, most notably by ensuring there are comprehensive recycling facilities.