Scam Gwyrdd = Massive Incinerator = Turning a Resource into a Problem

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

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Tuesday, September 4, 2007

Cardiff recycling/composting rates

Cardiff recycling/composting rates 1999-00 to 2005-06..Worst in Wales with 9.7%..Way to go..Powys is the best with 36.9%!

Cardiff recycling/composting rates 1999-00 to 2005-06

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New FOE report .......and Professor Dr Paul Connett Ph.D on zero waste here ..............................Right now the landfill surcharge is driving the building of massive incinerators UK is moving from worst solution to the next worse solution i.e. moving from the bottom of the waste hierarchy up. What we need are financial incentives to encourage communities to move to the top of the waste hierarchy –i.e. towards sustainability. Perhaps........ INCINERATION 20 pounds/ton surcharge 40 pounds/ton surcharge on ash LANDFILLING 40 pounds/ton surcharge

The Governent is pushing councils in one direction - incineration

Dangers of Waste Burning

UK Health research here
Effect on health unknown here
Welsh councils' incinerator trend Environment minister Carwyn Jones has said the development of incinerators in Wales is ineitable. 24-3-07
AN INCINERATOR close to Swansea's prestigious SA1 development is being investigated for allegedly pumping out too many harmful fumes...Residents...have been told that potentially-cancer-causing dioxin emissions were found to have been three times the limit when tested in December last year.
Waste Burning Could Be Lethal (from Oxford Mail)
Incinerators - are WMD's?
Health Impacts of Incinerators here
UK without incineration network here

UK losing £650m a year by binning and burning waste

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...

Welsh Waste Strategy

UKWin response to Wales Waste strategy

the young persons submission.

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 Strategy

Scottish Parliament vote against large-scale incinerators -The vote in the Scottish Parliament, carried because the Tories voted with the Greens and SNP. Just one Lib-Dem supported, 6 Labour absentees. If burning up to a quarter of Scotland's municipal waste is "a failure of the imagination" how much bigger a failure is the proposed Welsh strategy with burning up to 37% proposed ! It appears that the governing SNP had a change in mind when confronted with 25% in their Minister's plan. *S3M-4348.1 Scottish Parliament: National Waste Strategy (11 Jun 2009)

Scottish Green Party :: Greens Win Incinerator Vote

11 Jun 2009 ... Greens win Holyrood Vote against "Landfill in the Sky". Parliament today endorsed Green opposition to plans for a new generation of ... there should be no necessity for any large-scale waste-to-energy plants to be built ...

Cardiff giant incinerator rubbished

Scam Gwyrdd = Massive Incinerator = Turning a Resource into a Problem

Tuesday, September 4, 2007

Cardiff recycling/composting rates

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