Prosiect Gwyrdd is a consortium of 5 Councils including the Vale of Glamorgan
● has chosen 4 companies proposing incinerators to burn ‘residual’ municipal waste
● one company WRG wanted Dow Corning’s site (Cadoxton) but withdrew, leaving 3 bidders.
● The ‘Project’ set a £3million penalty for withdrawal to tie in the VoG and other Councils
● The Project runs a ‘spin’-filled website, go instead to the anti-site www.prosiectgwyrdd.org/
They talk (@ prosiectgwyrdd.co.uk) of
“waste infrastructure build”
“... manage the remaining waste … ...after recycling and composting has been maximised”
and assert falsely
“Each Council’s priority is to recycle and compost as much waste as possible”.
..... FALSE …. SPIN
The Vale Council is going slow, putting off the 70% level of recycling and composting for years, till 2025, even though some regions (eg. Belgium), some municipalities (eg. LA; Italian towns) and leading Councils in England are already around 70%.
Welsh councils commissioned consultants who told them they could reach 80-90% and it would cost less. Why did the Vale and P. Gwyrdd ignore them? Because they are set on providing waste for a mega-incinerator, funded by Welsh government with £9 milllion pa special subsidy, and £27 million pa from our rates.
In reality “scam Gwyrdd” is after spending our money (and ratepayers’ money for 25 years via PFI) in order to preserve their own jobs.
The Bristol – Avonmouth MBT solution
– far cheaper and 9 years contract, not PG’s 25 years
MBT is mechanical and biological processing to sort the maximum reclaimable material from black bag waste and then bio-stabilise residues to produce ‘soil’ for land reclamation, or RDF-fuel.
The Avonmouth scheme costs £25 million and was built in18 months, not the £150 million of PG’s incinerator that takes years to plan and build (now 2014-5). Extra modules can be added and processes changed and better treatments become available.
tell P Gwyrdd – stop spending public money on pro-incineration dossiers
and take your incineration plans out of Barry !!
BARRY - DIAG● exclude Incinerator industry from Barry Dock
● support other community Campaigns against incinerators for the Vale’s Municipal Waste at Merthyr, Newport-Llanwern and Cardiff-Splott.
