DEPUTIES will be asked during this week’s States debate to instruct Public Services to use the internationally recognised ‘waste hierarchy’ as a starting point for the island’s new strategy.

The department’s Waste Disposal Authority has already committed to using the formula, which focuses on the principles of reduce, reuse, recycle, but Deputy Gloria Dudley-Owen wants an official States resolution to direct PSD.

She has placed an amendment to the States Strategic Plan report that will be debated by the Assembly tomorrow.

Deputy Dudley-Owen (pictured) sits on the Waste Disposal Authority, headed by PSD deputy minister Scott Ogier, as a non-voting member. She disapproves of its decision to follow the ‘best practical environmental option (BPEO)’ method to help weight different ideas, but said applying the waste hierarchy to the process was essential.

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