WAG energy from waste con

The welsh assembly gov and local councils under pressure to reduce landfill are
opting for incineration of waste under the pretext that they can make
electricity from the process! 

This is Waste incineration disguised as 'renewable energy'!!

Wwe know the electricity from one of these large incinerators is pretty small, 20 or 30MW, compared with normal power stations (several 100MW up to Aberthaw’s 1450MW) and produces toxic ash and air pollution.They set no requirement on energy efficiency, despite Welsh strategy on 60% minimum.

Can WAG justify, a guarantee of £9 million per year to this waste incineration project while 

telling us they are GREEN? 
Can  Jane Davidson justify an INCREASE incineration to 30%!!!  

Various mechanical and bio-treatments (MBT) are roughly half the cost of incinerators, but WAG’s officials were so set on incineration that they approved the £9 million/year despite adopted policy to minimise waste disposal by landfill and incineration.

Prosiect Gwyrdd is NOT  Green! The partnership is not to "recycle and compost" but to dispose of the "residuals" by unwanted incinerators at huge cost.  

Shift away from EfW incinerators

Four planned energy from waste (EfW) incinerators are to be reviewed pending decisions on whether they will go ahead at all, pointing towards a shift away from incineration as a method of waste treatment.

Spiralling costs and a dramatic reduction in residual waste arisings have put a question mark over the plans to build EfW facilities in Hull, Coventry and Leeds.

The planning committee of Bristol City Council has made a decision to block an application for a 350,000 tonne a year energy-from-waste (EfW) facility proposed by Viridor.

Targets 

False to say no policy change from Wise About Waste, which said minimise disposal to landfill and incineration. This plan says reduce landfill to 5% and expand incineration up to a level of 30% - it's dishonest of WAG to pretend no policy change. 

Targets set by the Welsh Assembly Government which is to recycle 52% of our waste by 2012-2013 - just not ambitious enough to claim they are pursuing a carbon lite sustainable policy!

Putting off 70% recycling till 2025 means going slow on recycling, when some countries (Falmand/Berlgium) and municipalities have already reached this level

FOE Cymru proposed 70% by 2015 and 80% by 2020 are very feasible.

WAG claims that "a minimum level of 70 per cent recycling would be the most cost effective and deliverable level", but 'deliverable' means the dodgy deal with fractious Local Authorities in December 2008.  Over 80% recycling would be cost effective and the best way of reducing greenhouse gases

Scam green duff recycling targets

Friends of Earth rubbishes waste incineration plan

Jul 27 2009 by David Williamson, Western Mail

WALES is lagging behind the efforts of other countries in the race to embrace recycling and eliminate waste, Friends of the Earth Cymru claimed today.

It criticised the Assembly Government’s waste strategy for not going far enough to meet the challenges of climate change and diminishing resources.

The charity described the draft strategy as a “step in the right direction” but called for more ambitious recycling targets and a far greater emphasis on reducing waste.

A WAG spokesman, however, said they believed theirs is the most ambitious recycling plan of all the UK administrations.

Friends of the Earth Cymru also wants Environment Minister Jane Davidson to abandon incineration as an option for dealing with waste.

The group claimed that keeping incineration on the table “seriously risks undermining targets for recycling and waste reduction”.

Gordon James, director of Friends of the Earth Cymru, said: “While the Assembly Government’s target of achieving 70% recycling by 2025 is a step in the right direction, we have to be more ambitious.

“Parts of Europe, such as Flanders and Germany, are already achieving this rate, so we believe we should be aiming for

70% recycling by 2015 and 80% by 2020.

“We also want to see a much greater emphasis on waste reduction. Wales could become a zero waste nation, in which residual waste has been eliminated by 2030 rather than the proposed target of 2050.

“This is far too long to wait given the current environmental problems we face. Bold and urgent action is necessary now.”

His call was echoed by Jake Griffiths, leader of the Wales Green Party, who urged the Assembly Government to go further and support not just recycling but reusable packaging.

He said a return to the widespread use of bottles would mean more people would drink locally produced milk.

Milk contained in plastic cartons, he argued, was more likely to have been transported over a long distance, and the plastic might be sent as far away as China to be recycled.

He did not believe that more use of incineration would help encourage recycling and called for bolder targets.

“We don’t think they’ve been ambitious enough,” he said. “Other countries are way ahead of us.”

Friends of the Earth’s Mr James also supports greater reuse of packaging.

He said: “The Assembly Government’s own consultants have stated that it is fundamental that recycling becomes an option for waste management only after reduction and reuse. Without significant waste reduction, even 70% recycling by 2025 would fail to meet the Assembly Government’s own target to reduce Wales’ ‘ecological footprint’ to a fair 1.88 global hectares per person.”

Mr James went on to highlight Friends of the Earth Cymru’s concerns about the inclusion of incineration. Proposals to build incinerators in Cardiff, Barry and Merthyr Tydfil have all ignited controversy.

He said: “Incineration should not be part of any waste strategy. It is not a green technology as it produces toxic ash, emits excessive amounts of carbon dioxide, and its use would weaken incentives to reduce waste and boost recycling.

“The case for incineration is based on the unrealistic assumption that all residual waste could be incinerated and that all the ash is reusable.”

“In practice, less than 50% of the ash could be used and a significant amount of this would be hazardous waste.

“There are no suitable landfill sites for these residues in Wales, so they would need to be exported elsewhere.”

Friends of the Earth argues that Mechanical Biological Treatment (MBT) systems should be used to process residual waste.

Mr James said: “While it is encouraging that the Assembly Government is addressing how we need to deal with our waste, there is still a lot of work to do if we are going to transform Wales into a truly zero waste society.”

A Welsh Assembly Government spokesman said: “We welcome all contributions to our consultation which comes to an end next week. We believe this is the most ambitious recycling plan among all the administrations of the UK.

“We want to see Wales become a zero waste nation by 2050 so that products and services are designed so that they reduce or reuse waste as far as possible.”

GREENWASH website from councils dumping rubbish in Cardiff

PROJECT GREEN Prosiect Gwyrdd
Prosiect Gwyrdd is a partnership between, Caerphilly Borough County Council, The County Council of the City and County of Cardiff, Monmouthshire County Council, Newport Council and Vale of Glamorgan Council
partners in project 'green' to build an incinerator and burn all their rubbish in cardiff!.
The combined municipal waste of the five authorities makes up 40% of the total municipal waste of Wales to come through Cardiff in hundreds of lorries every day? Are they crazy?

They have writen to FOE to ask for a link to their new greenwash website!! No mention of the INCINERATOR word!!! Please say if you spot it! No mention that planning permission has been sought for a massive incinerator. Please correct me if I am wrong.
http://www.caerphilly.gov.uk/prosiectgwyrdd/english/home.html

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Viridor proposal would turn Cardiff into South Wales Waste Capital

Mon, Nov 10, 2008

LetsRecycle reports that:

Plans to develop a new incinerator in Cardiff have come under fire because of concerns it will not be limited to burning non-recyclable waste. Waste firm Viridor has been selected as preferred partner by the owners of a site near the Cardiff docks to take forward the £150 million project to build a “waste management and resource recovery facility”.

According to a letter from Cardiff Friends of the Earth local people are concerned that the proposed facility would be over-sized, as 350,000 tonnes per annum equates to some 2.5 times the amount of residual waste Cardiff produces. Continue Reading “Viridor proposal would turn Cardiff into South Wales waste capital” »

Rodney Berman on Scam Green Incinerator