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MONT CUET’S life could be extended to 2020 if current filling rates are maintained, the latest figures suggest.
The Public Services Department’s quarterly report into waste management showed that while recycling remained stable, the amount of rubbish going to landfill this year was likely to be about 37,000 tonnes – a reduction of more than 6,000 tonnes in 2007.
‘Recent inputs to Mont Cuet landfill site are significantly lower than in previous years,’ said a department spokesman.
‘If inputs were to be sustained at the current rate, it is estimated the remaining space would take an additional five years to fill when compared with average filling rates, meaning the site would then have a life expectancy of 12 years, closing in 2020.’
The report said that had been partly due to the commissioning of a shredder, which meant green waste could be excluded from the figures.
‘This material is now being processed on site in windrows to form a soil conditioner for use on land for both the general public and the commercial sector,’ the spokesman said.
However, based on previous the average filling rate, Mont Cuet is supposedly set to be full in seven years. Increased recycling would help the situation, but figures for the second quarter of this year show that is not happening.
Up to the end of June, recycling was at 36.5% including green waste and 30.8% excluding it.