Incinerator goes to planning

The planning application has gone in, the
number is 08/2616 and was submitted on the 27th November.

Details of the application are up on Viridor's website:
http://www.viridor-consultation.co.uk/index.php?contentId=128

We have at least 8 weeks in which to raise objections.

The planning Officer in charge is: Andrew Bates His home number is: 02920 871704

Objections should be sent to:
FAO: Andrew Bates Development Control
Strategic Planning & Environment City Hall Cathays Park
Cardiff CF10 3ND

If we get over 50 objections, then it is considered as a petition and
can be heard before committee.

Cardiff slight problem with contaminated recycling!

This is what happens when you collect interminged rubbish ...its difficult to recycle!!!

Title: UK-Cardiff: recycling equipment
Ref: 000000001949175
Document Type: Invitation to Tender Notice
Date Published: 30/11/2007
Deadline Date: 17/12/2007

Title: UK - Wales: recycling equipment
Document Ref: 1949175
Published on: 30-Nov-2007
Deadline: The deadline for responses is 17/12/2007.
Contract Type: This is a supply contract. Language: English Country:United Kingdom Notice

Type: Invitation to Tender Notice - Accelerated restricted procedure
Regulations: This document is regulated by theEuropean Supplies Directive 93/36/EEC. Source: Notice published in theEuropean JournalTitle attributed to the contract by the contracting authority: Supply and installation of equipment for the removal of organic material and shredded paper from recycled glass. Supply and installation of equipment to remove organic material from glass which has been through a material recycling process. Glass currently being recycled ranges from 60 mm to dust which requires the removal of organic material and shredded paper. The shredded paper is approximately 10 mm x 5 mm and is produced by industry standard cross cut shredders. Equipment is required to remove the contaminanation to less than 2%.CPV: 29241400.

MBT plants

More bits of information on MBT plants:

1. Viridor (prospective bidders for the Cardiff Bay Plant) are putting in an application for a small "Energy from Waste" (EfW) plant at Exeter, and are being opposed by local Exeter FOE group whose counter proposal is for an MBT plant

2. Northants and Milton Keynes Councils are in process of getting together on a regional waste strategy and the report attached seems to show they do not favour EFW. (We know that nearby Norfolk and Cambridgeshire are going for MBT)3. COSTS!! Cardiff City Council report costed a EfW plant to handle 400,000 - 500,000 million (have I the figures right?) tonnes of waste at £500 million and MBT to handle equivalent amounts of waste at £800 million. A 70,000 tonnes MBT plant is to built at Falkirk at cost of £18 million. Multiply by ten and we get nowhere near £800 million. Where are those responsible for the Cardiff report getting their figures from? www.rts-ad.co.uk
I have been told that to handle 500,000 tonnes of waste, preferably three MBT plants would be needed, at total capital cost (for the three plants) of about £150 million. That information was obtained by telephone call this morning to his German parent company, who have a brand new AD plant just started up at Bremen handling about 100,000 tonnes and costing - if I heard him right - 50-60 million euros (£40 million).