Towards a Municipal Waste Strategy for Newcastle Council 2005 2025

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How will the assessment criteria be used?
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Assessment criteria

• Criteria need to be established that reflect the
  issues that are important to all stakeholders in
  relation to the local circumstances
• Criteria to assess whole range of waste
  management
• These criteria have to cover all aspects but not
  double count issues
• SEA for Waste Strategy options for long-term
  waste management in Newcastle
• Assume treatment facility in your backyard

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Stages in the Process

• Develop assessment criteria
• Develop waste management options
• Model and assess performance of options
• Determine weights for criteria
• Citizens Panel, Stakeholder, NCC Officers and
  Members
• Combine performance with weights to give overall
  score

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Evaluation of criteria (example)
Values only examples, not specific for NCC
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Consider consolidated criteria
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How have criteria been consolidated?
Deliverability
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Consolidated criteria (environmental 1)
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Consolidated criteria (environmental 2)
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Consolidated criteria (environmental 3)
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Consolidated criteria (environmental 4)
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Consolidated criteria (socio-economic)
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Consolidated criteria (deliverability)
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Consolidated criteria (hierarchy)
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Other criteria

• Contractual, planning and permitting issues not
  considered at this stage
• Other criteria proposed in workshops
• Fit with other policy
• Fit with wider picture in region
• Impact on other partner e.g. Fire Service,
  Police
• Monitoring needs to be independent
  trustworthy
• Ethics wider responsibility and doing the right
  thing

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Considering the Waste Hierarchy

• Dr Stuart McLanaghan
• Associates in Industrial Ecology Ltd
• Presentation to Newcastle Citizens Panel
  Stakeholders Panel 22nd June 2006
• Royal Station Hotel, Newcastle

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Contents

• Recap current Newcastle waste practices
• Recap the Waste Hierarchy inversion
• Considerations for target setting
• Newcastle CC national waste targets 2010
  2020
• Delivering the Waste Hierarchy

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Recap current approach to waste management in
Newcastle

• contracts in place intended to deliver targets to
  around 2008/9 through
• kerb-side recycling
• mechanical biological treatment (MBT)
• in-vessel composting of residual waste and
• landfill

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Waste Hierarchy
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Recap the Waste Hierarchy concept of inversion

• Inversion need to move away from bottom-up
  approach
• consider the practical extent to which the amount
  of waste produced can be reduced
• Authorities then repeat the process for each
  further stage in the hierarchy in turn
• disposal of waste should be seen as the last
  option, but one which must be catered for!
• stages in the hierarchy should not be missed
  without robust and thorough justification (Defra
  Guidance, 2005)

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Waste Hierarchy Inverted
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Considerations for target setting

• no Government target (yet) for minimisation, but
  strategy needed
• differing targets for household and municipal
  waste
• the more minimisation re-use, the less
  recycling composting
• the more recycling composting, the least
  landfill
• recycling recycling of materials and nutrients
  (via compost)
• at source collection of higher quality than
  from residual waste
• recycling biodegradable waste contributes to both
  landfill diversion recycling targets
• aspirational targets what are the associated
  issues?
• residual treatment - a 2nd bite at the
  recycling cherry?

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Newcastle CC national targets for household
waste 2010 2020
TARGET FOR MUNICIPAL WASTE RECOVERY ONLY
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Delivering the Waste Hierarchy
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What is this telling us?
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Next steps in the process