Flintshire County Council Waste Management Strategy 2009–2025
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Flintshire County Council Waste Management Strategy 2009–2025 November 2009 Flintshire County Council Waste Management Strategy 2009–2025 January 2010 Contents Foreword............................................................................................................................................................ 3 1.0 | Purpose & Introduction .............................................................................................................................. 4 2.0 | Flintshire’s commitments ........................................................................................................................... 5 3.0 | Flintshire Profile ......................................................................................................................................... 7 4.0 | Flintshire Collection Service ...................................................................................................................... 8 5.0 | Achievements & performance ................................................................................................................. 11 6.0 | Effecting Change ..................................................................................................................................... 14 7.0 | Delivering and Reviewing the Strategy.................................................................................................... 20 Glossary........................................................................................................................................................... 21 Figures Figure 1 | Landfill allowance scheme for Flintshire ........................................................................................... 5 Figure 2 | Welsh Assembly Government Waste Targets .................................................................................. 5 Figure 3 | Visual representation of future waste allowance............................................................................... 6 Figure 4 | The municipal waste collection service ............................................................................................. 8 Figure 5 | Flintshire County Council waste infrastructure.................................................................................. 9 Figure 6 | Transportation of recyclate out of the County 2008/09 ................................................................... 10 Figure 7 | Flintshire municipal waste arisings 2002-20 ................................................................................... 12 Figure 8 | Flintshire municipal recycling/ composting rates............................................................................. 12 Figure 9 | Projected landfilled waste and the landfill allowance scheme ........................................................ 13 Figure 10 | The waste heirarchy ...................................................................................................................... 14 Figure 11.1 | Summary of strategy actions, Reduce/ Reuse........................................................................... 17 Figure 11.2 | Summary of strategy actions, Recycle....................................................................................... 18 Figure 11.3 | Summary of strategy actions, Recover ...................................................................................... 19 Figure 11.4 | Summary of strategy actions, Dispose....................................................................................... 19 Appendices Appendix 1 | Recycling and composting targets in detail ................................................................................ 25 Appendix 2 | Details of FCC municipal waste collection services ................................................................... 26 Appendix 3 | Details of private recycling operators contracted by Flintshire County Council in servicing captured recyclables........................................................................................................................................ 29 Appendix 4 | Waste compositional analysis .................................................................................................... 32 Appendix 5 | Miscellaneous detailed waste figures......................................................................................... 34 Appendix 6 | Details of the waste management strategy schemes................................................................. 37 Appendix 7 | Raising public awareness and increasing participation..............................................................42 1 Flintshire County Council Waste Management Strategy 2009–2025 January 2010 Acronyms AD Anaerobic Digestion BMW Biodegradable Municipal Waste FCC Flintshire County Council FWMS Flintshire Waste Management Strategy LA Local Authority LARAC Local Authority Recycling Advisory Committee LAS Landfill Allowance Scheme LDP Local Development Plan MRF Materials Recovery Facility MSW Municipal Solid Waste NWRWP North Wales Regional Waste Plan NWRWTP North Wales Residual Waste Treatment Partnership UDP Unitary Development Plan EA Environment Agency WAW Waste Awareness Wales WRAP Waste Resources Action Programme WAG Welsh Assembly Government WMF Waste Management Facility ROCS Renewable Obligation Credit Scheme NAWPI’s National Assembly Wales Performance Indicators WLGA Welsh Local Government Association DSO Direct Service Organisation LAWDC Local Authority Waste Disposal Company WEEE Waste Electrical Electronic Equipment HWRC Household Waste Recycling Centres MNC Miscellaneous Non Combustable KWT Keep Wales Tidy WET Wales Environment Trust 2 Flintshire County Council Waste Management Strategy 2009–2025 January 2010 Foreword We are committed to minimizing our reliance Before accepting the on landfill through reducing the production of portfolio for Waste waste. In order to do this, we, as an authority Management my only will: involvement with ► communicate with residents waste collection and ► ensure value for money recycling was to put ► work in partnership out the black bags once a week and the Since the last edition of the Waste Strategy, recycling once a Flintshire has increased its recycling performance fortnight. What year on year with residents embracing the happened after that kerbside recycling programme. We have never entered my achieved the targets set for us so far and mind! reduced the amount of residual waste going to landfill. Eighteen months later and a crash course in EU directives, Assembly legislation, fining But we must do better. procedures, recycling companies and collection patterns I am better prepared to write a foreword The strategies and targets outlined in this to Flintshire's updated Waste Strategy. document will help us to address our use of goods, our disposal of those goods and our Rather than go out to consultants, we have used shopping patterns. All these are matters which the talents within the council to gather the ultimately affect the production of waste and its information we needed to be able to plan for the treatment. future management of waste in Flintshire and throughout North Wales. Our motto is: It has been a pleasure to work closely with officers who have used their expert knowledge to Waste is a resource inform the process. We are a small county and in order to achieve We are guided ultimately by directives from the economies of scale we are working closely with European Union which filters down to Flintshire Conwy and Denbighshire to set up a facility to via Westminster and the Welsh Assembly treat food waste. Governments. If we do not achieve the goals set by such higher We are also working with Ynys Mon, Gwynedd, authorities we shall be liable for huge fines during Conwy and Denbighshire to put together a case the next decade. for procuring a technological solution for the treatment of residual waste. We can avoid these fines by: ► preventing waste This may take between 5 and 7 years to deliver. ► reuse ► recycling In the meantime this strategy, plus Flintshire's ► recovering residents’ cooperation will take us forwards ► careful disposal of what's left towards our ultimate goal of 150kg of residual waste per person per year The management of municipal waste is one of the most challenging environmental issues facing Together we can achieve this Wales. It is an issue which affects everyone across the planet - I recently met a councillor from the Philippines and their challenges are exactly the same as ours! Cllr Nancy Matthews Executive Member for Waste 3 Flintshire County Council Waste Management Strategy 2009–2025 January 2010 1.0 | Purpose & Introduction 1.1 The Flintshire Waste Management Strategy (FWMS) outlines how Flintshire will manage the collection, treatment and disposal of Municipal Waste collected by Flintshire County Council over the period 2009- 2025. A key aim of the Strategy is to improve our environmental performance and to reduce our ecological footprint whilst maximising the use of waste; 1.2 Flintshire County Council is committed to a future where waste is seen and utilised as a valuable resource. 1.3 The management of Municipal Waste is one of the most important and challenging environmental issues facing all Local Authorities in Wales and one of the main challenges is how to reduce the amount of waste currently being landfilled. To successfully reduce landfilled waste it is necessary for the Council to engage with the public to minimise the creation of waste and to increase the reuse