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Waste could be burnt in future
1:00pm Thursday 28th December 2006
TONNES of household waste could be incinerated instead of being placed in landfill sites in future as a way of avoiding costly Government fines.
New legislation means that councils will be limited as to how much waste they can use for landfill without incurring severe penalties, and Buckinghamshire County Council has been looking at alternative ways of getting rid of our excess rubbish.
"My committee has had to become very knowledgeable about this highly complex technical subject in order to make sure we help get a solution for our council taxpayers which is value for money, environmentally sound, and delivers our objectives."
Cllr Richard Pushman
Last week, the overview and scrutiny committee for environmental services recommended an incineration process called Energy from Waste should be adopted.
The method, which was deemed the most cost- effective and environmentally friendly, was chosen ahead of an alternative process called Mechanical Biological Treatment with Anaerobic Digestion - which reduces the waste to a solid which can then be used to generate power.
The recommendation will now be put before the council cabinet when they meet in January.
Buckinghamshire homeowners currently produce 275,000 tonnes of rubbish each year. Around 40 per cent of this is currently recycled, with the aim to increase this figure to 45 per cent by 2010.
Cllr Richard Pushman, chairman of the committee, said: "My committee has had to become very knowledgeable about this highly complex technical subject in order to make sure we help get a solution for our council taxpayers which is value for money, environmentally sound, and delivers our objectives.
"They have made a point of visiting technologies to understand how they work, including the rigorous checks that are in place to ensure technologies are safe and environmentally-friendly.
"The hard work they have put in meant that, backed up with sound financial and technical advice from officers and consultants, they were able to reach a unanimous decision."
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anon, says...
9:06am Fri 29 Dec 06
Laugh-a-lot, says...
1:36am Sat 30 Dec 06
Interesting.
Ivor Bigun, says...
2:38am Sat 30 Dec 06
With the ever increasing number of new houses being built locally it is no surprise that more refuse is being generated. To stop the extra waste being created should we not stop building all these new homes in the area? More homes = more people = more rubbish.
I have been living in Wycombe for many years and quite honestly I dont see why my refuse collection should be affected in favour of people who have only just moved into the town.
If incineration is so good why cant we just incinerate the lot and go back to having our non green bins emptied every week?
Ivor, says...
8:12pm Sat 30 Dec 06
Ivor Bigun, says...
9:09pm Sat 30 Dec 06
We should not be worrying about the disposal of the waste, it should not be created in the first place. Why not tackle the over packaging of so many products that are sold in our shops?
By tackling the disposal we are missing the point, which is stop creating the mess in the first place. Its not about waste disposal, its all about waste creation. Wycombe council can not solve the waste creation problem, only central government can do this with a national policy to the supermarkets, etc....
Oh, by the way, my family has been living in the area for many hundreds of years and have been involved (and still are) with the development and prosperity of the town during that time, we helped to make Wycombe what it is.... (Was that a good thing to say????)
Steve, Totteridge Hill says...
3:13pm Mon 25 Jun 07
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P Morris, says...
7:48am Fri 29 Dec 06
The BIG question to be answered is where will it be located?
NIMBYs of Bucks will be fighting hard to ensure it is not built near them - rubbish lorries going in and out at all times, fumes (or the fear of fumes) from the incinerator, no matter how high tech, etc. will ensure this project is delayed for years!