The Call to Action

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Regional Waste Management Strategy

• The Call to Action
• Waste growing annually
• EU Landfill Directive - Targets fines
• UK government targets Waste Strategy 2000, Best
  Value
• Cabinet Office Strategy Unit report Dec 2002
• Sustainable development

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Regional Waste Management Strategy

• Add slide of photo of front cover of Strategy
  when available
• Plus selection of photos from the Strategy
  Alex will help and provide, including
• Landfills
• Recycled materials or recycling
  collections/banks/civic amenity sites
• Energy plants

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Major Waste Streams(Source Environment Agency
data SERTAB Waste Statement 2002)
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Major Waste Streams(Source Environment Agency
data SERTAB Waste Statement 2002)
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Waste Hierarchy

• Reduce waste in the first place
• Re-use materials
• Recycle Compost
• Recover value (including energy)
• Disposal

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Forecasts of waste growth reducing rate but
continued growth
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Major Inter-regional Waste Movements
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Total annual throughput capacity available
2002-2025
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Existing landfill sites
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Existing recovery facilities
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Infrastructure need gap 2002-2025
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Our Vision
A region in which natural resources are used and
managed efficiently so that by 2025 the amount of
waste produced will be minimised, the
overwhelming majority of materials will be
re-used, recycled, or have value recovered from
them, and the environment will be protected and
enhanced for future generations.
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Outline of Consultation Draft

• Resource management ethos
• Emphasis on minimisation
• Targets for recycling and recovery
• Alternative options - recovery targets
• Integrated approach to management
• Rapid increase in recovery capacity
• Pragmatic self sufficiency press London to
  reduce exports
• Land use wider management

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Preferred Option
Landfill Directive and National Waste Strategy
2000 recovery targets are met and exceeded
through recycling, composting and digestion, and
energy recovery, with minimum disposal to
landfill Reflects views expressed in
consultation with stakeholders
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Preferred Option
Implications for recovery targets (current
recovery rate for all waste c.55)
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Infrastructure implications (Illustrative)
Cumulative New facilities (number depends on
size of individual facilities)
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Preferred Option

• Implications of Preferred Option
• Exceeding statutory targets (minimising landfill)
  increases the challenge
• Need for rapid increase in recovery capacity
  management, and many new developments sites
• Recycling and composting takes time to develop -
  could place reliance on energy from waste in
  short term

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Preferred Option

• Implications of Preferred Option
• Is such a rapid increase in recovery feasible
  given
• - difficulty securing sites permissions
• - lack of control over commercial waste
• - need for legislative change
• - time required to change management approach and
  behaviour
• An alternative option .

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Alternative Option

• Same policy approach but targets are met and not
  exceeded
• MSW LFD recovery targets applied to all MSW but
  final target applied at 2020 (limited effect)
• CI WS2000 recovery target applied at 2005 only
  
• CD - WS2000 recovery target applied at 2005 only

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Alternative Option
Implications for recovery targets ( all
waste) Current rate for all waste c.55
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Alternative Option

• Implications of alternative option
• Overall recovery target falls
• Need more landfill and less recovery capacity
  (c.4m additional tonnes per year by 2025) for CI
  and CD waste
• Gives time to build up recycling, composting
  minimisation
• May not be seen as ambitious enough
• Would a hybrid of the two be preferable?

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Preferred Alternative optionsImplications for
recovery recycling
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Policies

• Scope of policies reflects
• - waste hierarchy- proximity principle-
  self sufficiency (pragmatic)- best practicable
  environmental option (from SERTAB advice)
• - impact of London
• - land use waste management
• Policies apply whatever option/targets followed,
  but scale of change will differ

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Policies

• Minimisation prioritised
• Recycling targets
• Overall recovery targets
• Integrated approach all management included
  incl advanced technologies
• Plans to provide for capacity informed by targets
  (self sufficiency)
• Considers regional need for specialist facilities
  (hazardous waste)

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Conclusion

• Major and urgent challenge
• Need to tackle growth in waste
• Need for rapid build up of capacity
• Need for a large number of new recovery
  facilities and sites
• Need for recovery to be incentivised
• Need for recycling to be made easier than
  disposal
• We all must play our part

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Timetable

• 12 week Assembly consultation (non-statutory)
  including workshops
• Policies will form amendment to RPG9 and part of
  Regional Spatial Strategy
• Submission to GOSE end 2003
• Further consultation Public Examination before
  approval by SoS

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