AT LEAST 14,000 tonnes per year could be reduced from the amount of rubbish being dumped if it was sorted properly, according to Island Waste.

The company sorts at its Pointes Lane site and has commented ahead of next week’s States debate on building a waste plant. It failed to make the group of eight companies shortlisted to tender and claims it was misled in the expression of interest over what was needed. Its submission was rejected as inadequate.

‘The form of our letter was exactly as requested by PSD, but we now believe we were misled as to the level of detail required at this stage,’ said managing director Dan Hubert (pictured). Island Waste backs the independent people’s panel ‘common sense’ approach of reducing volumes currently going to landfill so that a waste plant smaller than the 70,000-tonne capacity one backed by the previous States can be built.

It backs the panel’s claim that there is greater scope for recycling.