Future of Cornwall's waste under spotlight (From This is The West Country)

Future of Cornwall's waste under spotlight

12:40pm Tuesday 9th February 2010

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The Cabinet of Cornwall Council will consider a recommendation tomorrow to ask Sita Cornwall to prepare a revised project plan in accordance with the Integrated Waste Management Contract and in accordance with the Cornwall Waste Local Plan.

The cabinet will also decide whether to terminate the IWM Contract or to continue to work with SITA Cornwall on a revised project plan for a Cornwall Energy Recovery Centre.

The recommendation has come from the waste development advisory panel established to explore all aspects of waste management.

Julian German, who has carried out site visits around the UK to see different waste management technologies in practice, set it up.

The report to the panel outlined predicted costs of between £35 - £50million as the cost of terminating the IWM Contract with SITA Cornwall. Further to that an additional £166million in added landfill tax and landfill allowance trading costs would be incurred over the nine year period it would take to develop a new strategy, to procure a new contractor and to obtain planning consent for the alternative technology.

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