Real Recycling for Zero Waste Conference
Zero Waste Chartists invite you to a conference
'Real Recycling for Zero Waste'
Why do we need separated kerbside collections?
How should we collect foodwaste separately?
Saturday 28th June, from 10.30am to 5pm
Friends Meeting House, Rainsford Road, Chelmsford
(close to Chelmsford rail and bus stations, and carparks)
Coffee and registration: 10.30am
£30 including lunch (£15 ZWC members/concessions)
Speakers from Aylesford Papermill, Berryman glass, Recoup plastics and Preston's foodwaste collection
'Fame' glass/cans collection vehicle on display.
The Campaign for Real Recycling, supported by the main UK reprocessors and Friends of the Earth,
opposes mixed 'commingled' collections in sacks or wheelie bins,
which are crushed by compactors and taken to costly central MRFs (Material Recycling Facilities)
to be mechanically sorted.
Materials become contaminated and sometimes unmarketable.
Book now for a very interesting day showing how separated kerbside recycling collections are vital for
high recycling and clean recyclate to support our UK reprocessing industries.
Separated collections are proven to be cheaper than mixed materials sent to a MRF.
You will also hear from former and current councillors concerned with Essex waste issues and
councillors from other counties can join a Roundtable Debate with :
Marion Williams, former chair of the Waste Management Advisory Board;
Peter Thompson, former Colchester LibDem councillor;
Braintree Green Cllr James Abbott; and
Cllr Tina Dopson, Labour waste portfolioholder on Colchester's Cabinet.
What happened to the Essex 'Working Together' joint county/district policy agreed in 1999 for
'60% recycling and composting by 2007'?
Detailed individual recycling plans for the district councils were drawn up by Ecologika.
It was included in the Waste Plan.
At the Waste Plan inquiry Ecologika proved that high recycling and separated kerbside collections were
two-thirds the cost of major central waste facilities with long-term contracts.
Lord Hanningfield has pledged 'no incineration' for Essex since 2001.
Braintree and Chelmsford councils formally adopted the Zero Waste Charter in 2002.
76% of formal responses to the 2002 ECC War on Waste consultation opposed all six MBT and incineration
options. 69% supported alternative Option 7 for high recycling and composting with separated collections,
aiming at Zero Waste by 2020.
Yet in 2007 the district councils all supported the county council bid for PFI for 28.5 year contracts to
build massive MBT plants making fuel pellets to burn in a polluting 250,000 tonnes p.a. incinerator.
The PFI bid includes central MRFs to sort mixed recyclables collected in wheelie bins -
Chelmsford objects to this and to incineration.
In May the Tories lost control of Colchester council, with the new administration coalition of opposition
groups joining to oppose the county council waste strategy and PFI bid.
Will any other councils join them to try to stop the costly and destructive waste disposal plans?
Conference run by the Zero Waste Chartists, hosted by Colchester & NE Essex Friends of the Earth.
If you have any queries please email
paula.essexfoe@btopenworld.com
or phone 01206/383123.
To register for the conference please email to book a place, fill in the
registration form (printable with your browser's print function)
and send it with a cheque made out to 'Zero Waste Chartists' to:
Paula Whitney, Co-ordinator, Zero Waste Chartists, 4 Shears Crescent, West Mersea, Essex, CO5 8AR.
Directions to the venue: from Chelmsford rail station, turn right under bridge,
pass County Hotel on your left and walk to roundabout.
The Friends Meeting House is across the traffic light crossing on the right.
Car parking can be found quite close but not at the venue – postcode is CM1 2QL.
A programme will be emailed to you or will be available when you arrive.
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