Towards a Municipal Waste Strategy for Newcastle Council 2005 2025

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Weighting the assessment criteria
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Weighting of criteria

• To provide the relative importance of each
  criterion
• What is important in Newcastle?
• Are there any showstopper issues, e.g.
• - Is the waste management system deliverable?
• - Is the solution acceptable to the public?
• - Is the solution affordable to the Council/tax
  payers?
• Remember, all solutions have to be deliverable

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Example weighting
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Outcomes from target setting
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Proposed targets for Newcastle

• Landfill should be reduced to a minimum
• Targets set for landfill diversion of
  biodegradable waste

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Considering changes to the collection services
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Current collection service in Newcastle
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Why are we talking about this?

• Need to improve overall recycling composting
  performance
• Black box too small high-rise properties not
  covered
• Currently no collection of garden or kitchen
  waste
• (trial scheme for garden waste)
• Collection contract up for renewal in 2008
• Opportunity for step change in recycling
  performance!

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How can Newcastle make it happen?

• Introduce wheelie bin or second box for
  recycling?
• Black box too small
• Black box can be heavy when full
• Wheelie bin provides more storage space
• Not all households may be suitable for a second
  wheelie bin
• There is no solution to fit all.
• High-rise properties need to be looked at
  separately.

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How can Newcastle make it happen?

• Change to fortnightly collection of residuals?
• To encourage more recycling
• Examples of other local authorities show
  significantly improved recycling
• To raise awareness of waste problem
• More effort can be put into recyclables
  collection
• Bin smelly in summer?

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How can NCC make it happen?

• Collection of garden waste, kitchen waste or
  both?
• Can increases recycling level significantly
• Improves resource efficiency by producing compost
  
• Generates good quality compost
• Contributes to landfill diversion target for
  biodegradable waste
• Increases awareness of waste
• Smelly bin for kitchen waste?
• More waste arisings through garden waste
  collection?

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Views on technologies for residual treatment
technologies
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Residual treatment technologies

• Treatment types
• Mechanical biological treatment (MBT) including
  anaerobic digestion /or composting
• Energy recovery
• energy from waste incineration
• advanced thermal treatment (e.g. gasification)
• Autoclaving
• Issues to bear in mind
• Output material
• Markets for output material
• Risks
• Emissions
• Flexibility
• Costs
• Regional context

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Key technology considerations

• no environmental free lunch solutions
• highly improbable that recycling can deliver in
  isolation
• costs are indicative and HIGHLY location-specific
• important role for technologies to manage
  residual waste
• best approaches likely to be integrated ones
• a range of technologies exist
• waste treatment needs joining-up with regional
  resource requirements
• proximity to waste, to reprocessors markets

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Mechanical biological treatment (MBT)
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MBT issues to consider
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Energy from Waste incineration
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EfW issues to consider
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Advanced thermal treatment pyrolysis
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Advanced thermal treatment issues to consider
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Autoclaving
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Autoclaving issues to consider
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Next steps in the process
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Next steps

• Develop scenarios for assessment
• Scenarios will assess all technologies discussed
• Expressed views on technologies will be part of
  assessment
• Targets set for Waste Hierarchy will be included
• Potential changes to collection service will be
  assessed considering public views
• Preparing of scoping report
• Weighting exercise with NCC Officers and seeking
  Members agreement
• Undertake technical assessment
• Environmental Report out for public consultation