Report on waste management - 1

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00Chapter 01i00X02i00 justifies the proposal with reference to the Waste Local Plan, which recognises the need for a sustainable waste management. According to this plan, the best options are minimisation and re-use, followed by recycling and composting, energy recover, and, only as a last resource, disposal in a landfill. Even though the proposal implies a shift up in the waste hierarchy, with an important reduction of landfill-disposed waste, it should be noted that this project skips the first two options (reduction and re-use), which need nevertheless to be addressed at a higher level. 02br
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00The Local Plan estimates waste production in the County to equal 900,000 tonnes in 2002; the proposed development would manage 420,000 tonnes per year, which "equates approximately to that expected to arise from the districts of 01i00X, Y and Z02i00" (01i00source02i00). This quantity can be divided into three parts:02br
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00· 01i00X X X02i00 tonnes per year to recycling02br
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00· 01i00Y Y Y02i00 tonnes per year to composting02br
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00· 01i00Z Z Z 02i00tonnes per year to energy recovery02br
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00Undoubtedly, the amount of waste managed in the proposed facility would be a significant share of the total amount of waste produced in the County. However, it should be noted that the sentence "420,000 tonnes per annum of municipal waste will be diverted from landfill" (01i00source02i00) is misleading, since a non well-defined amount (01i00XYZ02i00 tonnes per year, as stated on page 01i00xyz02i00, is a rough estimate, valid only under specific assumptions) of ashes is expected to be collected, and the possibility of disposal in a landfill is not being excluded.02br
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00The proposal is also related to the planning context at the national, county and local level. The UK legislation (01i00source02i00) does not require the inclusion of this relationship in the EIS, as other European legislations do. Reference to the planning context has probably been added because the issue has been raised by the County Council during the scoping phase. Chapter 01i00Y 02i00of the EIS tries to establish a sound planning basis for the proposal, in terms of:02br
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00· need for a reduction in the amount of waste disposed of in landfills;02br
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00· need for an increase of recycling and composting;02br
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00· recognition of waste as a renewable source of energy, depending on the technology utilised.02br
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