Waste solution ‘counts more than consultation’
Monday 28th June 2010, 11:30AM BST.
ANTI-INCINERATOR campaigners have given a cool response to news of widespread consultation on solving the island’s waste problem.
The Public Services Department plans to engage strongly with the public before taking a report to the States in July 2011 with a recommended solution.
Rosie Dorey (pictured) said that while the widest public acceptance was important, what came out of it was what mattered most.
‘I would really like to see leadership being shown to take us in the direction of a zero waste strategy,’ she said. ‘You will probably never achieve a zero waste strategy but you aim for it and by doing that you reduce your waste.’
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July 2011 …. seems an awfully long time, surely the PSD has done most of the preparatory work over the last 10 years.
Can’t help but be sceptical that the July 11 report will say we need to change a,b,c, we need to purchase x,y,z and should go to tender for providers of x,y,z … adding another 3 years to the process. In the meantime we will need to employ specialists to tell us what we want at a cost of £xM.
Why cant they just get on with it already?
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Jamie
This is the States you’re talking about,not private enterprise
Most Guernsey companies would have got a couple of mid management and a junior to knock up a report,hold a Director’s meeting and make a decision in a month or two
When you think of the States,think Town Market,think Leale’s yard,think of all the amendments and consequent forthcoming waffle to the simple idea of island wide voting
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The second part of my quote should have read:
‘You might never achieve complete zero waste but by aiming for it you continually reduce the amount of residual waste that needs dealing with’.
I should have also added that pulling the biodegradable element out of the waste stream at source asap, and dealing with it separately, should be progressed straight away. (Preferable through an anaerobic digester) To do that, we need separated kerbside collections. Once this dirty, contaminating element is removed, what remains in the waste stream will be clean and therefore more recyclable.
This, together with a proper undercover reclamation yard, is where I would like to see some committed leadership taking this program forward.
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Completely agree with you Rosie, its just frustrating that PSD have decided to delay any real action for more than a year. All that is going to happen is the strategy will be too long winded, overcomplicated and too easy for the house to find individual elements to say no too, thus throwing out the whole strategy.
The states need to agree and commit to a zero waste strategy as a ‘mission statement’, allowing PSD to then come back with each element / individual project of the zero waste strategy.
1) Kerbside collection
2) AD for biodegradeable waste
3) Review Parish collections / Island wide collections and charging structure.
4) Upgrade longue houge to undercover reclamation yard.
Then they’ve got the infrastructure that can be tweaked, refined and added to to continually strive towards zero waste.
I’m worried that they’re going to make their strategy far to wide …. if the England/USA took this long, we’d still be occupied!!
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@Jamie
And if Germany had taken this long the Occupation wouldn’t have happened yet because they’d still be deciding whether or not to occupy us!
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It is sickening to hear all this babbling on about the waste problem.
Yet the people still allow that useless body of people known laughingly as the –
“STATES of GUERNSEY”
They haven’t a clue as to what can be done; they know how to take trips here, there, and everywhere, but on the job they were elected to- They look on amazed that anyone should doubt their integrity-
They have no integrity, they squander the Islands wealth and Historical Things and bend over backwards to please those Financial peoples, Get rid of them-
Then elect only Guernsey people, But choose wisely
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It’s not rocket science is it? They are scared to do anything incase it does not fit this hypothetical magical holistic strategy that they are going to implement in a couple or three years.
However, if kerbside were to be implemented NOW and in 3 years they decided they had a better idea (I’m struggling to think what it might be), then they would have diverted a great deal from MC as well as having ameliorated the methane/gull/rat issue. They could flog the collection trucks and implement the new idea (if there is one)
As to an undercover reclamation/civic amenity site, I struggle to see why that would not be part of a long term strategy. It is re-use and better than recycling. I guess they will say that they cannot put one on LH until they know how they want to use the whole site, but many of these buildings are prefab/modular.
Just do it!!!
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