letter to the Gazette, 28/3/12
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Dump the MBT contract not the recycling Kevin
Dear Editor,
Recycling and composting are vital to save global resources, energy and to cut pollution and climate change gases. Separated recyclates receive high prices and support UK industries. Welsh data shows 93% of domestic waste can be recycled.
The Mechanical Biological Treatment (MBT) plant agreed at Basildon would destroy recyclables left in black bag waste trucked from all over Essex. The 80% dried residues would be landfilled or burned in an incinerator at Stanway, Rivenhall, Sandon or Basildon.
Colchester borough councillors Kevin Bentley and John Jowers are also Tory county councillors on the decision-making Cabinet at County Hall. Kevin Bentley has the aptly-named portfolio for 'Waste'. They have just agreed the MBT contract.
Please think again councillors and urgently dump this disastrous 25-year contract at a total cost to us of £4billion. Other councils have had to pay huge penalties to cancel similar contracts when they have realised their mistake further down the line.
Increasing our recycling and composting and landfilling the decreasing residues is far cheaper https://www.dreamwidth.org/updatein the short and long term as consultants Ecologika proved for all the Essex district councils at the 1999 Essex & Southend Waste Plan public inquiry.
Essex’s recycling and composting rose from 43% two years previously to just over 50% last year. South Oxfordshire’s recycling rose from 43% to 70% in two years after introducing food waste collections.
Food waste collections are now being introduced right across Essex, which will increase the recycling figures by a large percentage. Don’t destroy it all Kevin.
Yours sincerely,
Paula Whitney, Co-ordinator,
Colchester & North East Essex Friends of the Earth,
4 Shears Crescent, West Mersea.
Dump the MBT contract not the recycling Kevin
Dear Editor,
Recycling and composting are vital to save global resources, energy and to cut pollution and climate change gases. Separated recyclates receive high prices and support UK industries. Welsh data shows 93% of domestic waste can be recycled.
The Mechanical Biological Treatment (MBT) plant agreed at Basildon would destroy recyclables left in black bag waste trucked from all over Essex. The 80% dried residues would be landfilled or burned in an incinerator at Stanway, Rivenhall, Sandon or Basildon.
Colchester borough councillors Kevin Bentley and John Jowers are also Tory county councillors on the decision-making Cabinet at County Hall. Kevin Bentley has the aptly-named portfolio for 'Waste'. They have just agreed the MBT contract.
Please think again councillors and urgently dump this disastrous 25-year contract at a total cost to us of £4billion. Other councils have had to pay huge penalties to cancel similar contracts when they have realised their mistake further down the line.
Increasing our recycling and composting and landfilling the decreasing residues is far cheaper https://www.dreamwidth.org/updatein the short and long term as consultants Ecologika proved for all the Essex district councils at the 1999 Essex & Southend Waste Plan public inquiry.
Essex’s recycling and composting rose from 43% two years previously to just over 50% last year. South Oxfordshire’s recycling rose from 43% to 70% in two years after introducing food waste collections.
Food waste collections are now being introduced right across Essex, which will increase the recycling figures by a large percentage. Don’t destroy it all Kevin.
Yours sincerely,
Paula Whitney, Co-ordinator,
Colchester & North East Essex Friends of the Earth,
4 Shears Crescent, West Mersea.
