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Recycling and export is waste disposal decision

GUERNSEY has finally committed to the export of waste and high levels of recycling some 20 years after deciding that an alternative to landfill was needed.


States approves waste export

GUERNSEY’S States has given the green light to export of the island’s waste.


Only flawed costings killed local incinerator

PUBLIC Services was backing on-island incineration just a few weeks before it finalised its waste proposals, it emerged yesterday.


States set to recycle waste disposal options

HISTORY is in danger of repeating itself.


Alternative waste solution campaigners bide their time

ALTERNATIVE waste solution campaigners will bide their time till cracks appear in Public Services’ new strategy before promoting their ideas again, it has emerged.


Amendment will have to beat ‘waste fatigue’

STATES members will not stall on proposals for a revised waste strategy after years of suffering from ‘waste fatigue’, a Public Services deputy has said.


Food waste cannot be left for long, say recyclers

FOOD waste would need to be picked up regularly – possibly even daily – if kerbside collections were brought in, said people responding to the Public Services Department’s waste proposals.


Kerbside recycling is good, but bigger bills are unpopular

ISLANDERS will begrudge having to pay more to get rid of their waste, Mont Cuet recyclers have said.


Exporting waste is preferred option in PSD’s £180m. plan

HOUSEHOLDS could end up paying £180 a year as part of proposals for a new £180m. waste strategy.


Final say on waste shipment plan will be Jersey’s

JERSEY’S politicians will have the final say over whether Guernsey can ship its non-recyclable waste to its incinerator, its Transport and Technical Services minister has said.

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