Nuneaton council force to make waste for 32 years

Coventry, Warwickshire and Solihull councils are working on a new Private Finance Initiative (PFI) waste incinerator for Coventry. This will have an even bigger capacity that the existing waste burner and double the cost per tonne of waste.

The projected waste growth over the next 36 years used to justify the plant are just plane mad. With greater recycling and less packaging we need to bury or burn less waste every year.

I have just found out details of a legally binding agreement that they expect the waste collection authorities (i.e. district councils like Nuneaton & Bedworth) that will force them to produce a tonnage of residual waste each year to match the stupid projection. Worst still the energy content of the waste will have to be kept around 9MJ per Kg. These rules will stop us increasing recycling in future and may require Nuneaton to stop some of its recycling in future if the too little waste is left.

see full contract http://tinyurl.com/wccmou