letter to the Essex Chronicle, 3/4/11
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colchesterfoeEssex Chronicle, letters page.
Last chance for Essex County Council to drop the costly waste disposal contracts
Dear Editor,
ECC leader Peter Martin said that Essex will be recycling around 50% this year. Some councils already recycle over 60%. Essex recycling has been rising steadily each year from 30% in 2005. Now is the time for Essex County Council to cancel the hugely costly waste disposal contracts and lead the way towards total recycling and composting in Essex over the next decade.
Chelmsford council has the best separated kerbside recycling system in Essex, with a local baling centre for their separated recyclables. These receive the highest prices and can supply our own UK reprocessors, such as Aylesford paper, Berriman glass and our plastic reprocessors with the clean top quality materials they are pleading for.
WRAP, the Government-funded advisory group, has brought out various reports proving kerbside sorting provides the best quality recyclates, saves energy and is cheaper than collecting all recyclables in a wheelie bin or sack ('commingled'), which are crushed and degraded. They then have to be mechanically-sorted at a costly central 'MRF' such as the county council is promoting.
Chelmsford is now going to roll out separate kerbside bucket food waste collections. The food waste should go into local Anaerobic Digestion plants such as already agreed at Halstead, which produce renewable energy, most efficiently as gas to the gas heating grid or for electricity. Clean compost is also produced.
Yet Chelmsford council is supporting the county council's 27.5 year waste disposal contracts for massive MBT plants to shred and dry our valuable resources to turn into polluting Solid Recovered Fuel to burn in an incinerator - against all the Conservative pledges against incineration.
This will cost taxpayers huge sums, destroy resources for ever, create pollution and increase climate change gases. Colchester council is the only council opposing these imminent contracts. Please, Chelmsford council, also oppose them before it is too late!
Yours sincerely,
Paula Whitney, Co-ordinator,
Colchester & North East Essex Friends of the Earth, 4 Shears Crescent, West Mersea, Essex, CO5 8AR.
Last chance for Essex County Council to drop the costly waste disposal contracts
Dear Editor,
ECC leader Peter Martin said that Essex will be recycling around 50% this year. Some councils already recycle over 60%. Essex recycling has been rising steadily each year from 30% in 2005. Now is the time for Essex County Council to cancel the hugely costly waste disposal contracts and lead the way towards total recycling and composting in Essex over the next decade.
Chelmsford council has the best separated kerbside recycling system in Essex, with a local baling centre for their separated recyclables. These receive the highest prices and can supply our own UK reprocessors, such as Aylesford paper, Berriman glass and our plastic reprocessors with the clean top quality materials they are pleading for.
WRAP, the Government-funded advisory group, has brought out various reports proving kerbside sorting provides the best quality recyclates, saves energy and is cheaper than collecting all recyclables in a wheelie bin or sack ('commingled'), which are crushed and degraded. They then have to be mechanically-sorted at a costly central 'MRF' such as the county council is promoting.
Chelmsford is now going to roll out separate kerbside bucket food waste collections. The food waste should go into local Anaerobic Digestion plants such as already agreed at Halstead, which produce renewable energy, most efficiently as gas to the gas heating grid or for electricity. Clean compost is also produced.
Yet Chelmsford council is supporting the county council's 27.5 year waste disposal contracts for massive MBT plants to shred and dry our valuable resources to turn into polluting Solid Recovered Fuel to burn in an incinerator - against all the Conservative pledges against incineration.
This will cost taxpayers huge sums, destroy resources for ever, create pollution and increase climate change gases. Colchester council is the only council opposing these imminent contracts. Please, Chelmsford council, also oppose them before it is too late!
Yours sincerely,
Paula Whitney, Co-ordinator,
Colchester & North East Essex Friends of the Earth, 4 Shears Crescent, West Mersea, Essex, CO5 8AR.
