Cardiff, Caerphilly, Newport, Monmouthshire, Vof G Councils want a big burner which Ties them into a very expensive PFI for 25 YEARS to burn waste rather than improve recycling rates. The Prosiect Gwyrdd councils are striving towards a feeble 65% recycling by 2025 with at least a further 5% being ASH from the incinerator. Many other councils have already exceeded 70% recyling rates. “Prosiect Gwyrdd” = Scam Green = WAG Welsh Waste Policy = incinerators
Concerns that incinerator trend undermines green progress
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Concerns that long-term incinerator contracts, and a “trend” towards using the process more, will undermine recycling and new waste technologies have been ...
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Don't send your toxic incinerator waste to us SWARD
Ecologist 7th October, 2009
A report from Friends of the Earth reveals the huge extent of the pollution and financial losses caused by our love of landfill and incineration more...The Institute for Zero Waste in Africa has also contributed to the consultation! Download the Institute for Zero Waste in Africa submission.
Wales Climate Camp The Minister depicted Prosiect Gwyrdd as "producing much needed energy" that would "use waste in the best possible way", despite the consortium claiming their Business case for procuring a ‘solution’ for residual waste is technology-neutral WAG Approval of the business case and subsidy for Prosiect Gwyrdd, 27 Jan. 2009: New funding boost for next generation energy-from-waste plant in south Wales Why are incinerator residues not counted in the recycling/composting indicator? here Classification of Incinerator Bottom Ash (updated 29 Nov. 2008) Facebook Groups No Incinerator in Cardiff Bay here - Councils Scam Gwyrdd Scottish Parliament: National Waste StrategyCardiff and the V
ale of Glamogan to find an iFears aired over Newport waste plant (From South Wales Argus)
Newport’s cabinet gave the go ahead to allow an Assembly-owned site on Tatton Road to be considered for the project. The site, in the industrial area of Queensway Meadows, is likely to be the only publicly owned site earmarked for the plant.
Evaluation of all shortlisted sites here
