May 3rd, 2013
by Mike Brown
I owe Deborah Meaden a bit of an apology. In an article in February I cocked a snook at her comments that the key considerations about the Gloucestershire incinerator were aesthetic, when for me the central issues were long term availability of feedstock and whether the scale of the incinerator was consistent with maximising recycling.
March 5th, 2013
Last week’s announcement by Defra that it was withdrawing around a combined £200 million of PFI funding from three waste projects (Merseyside, Bradford / Calderdale, City of York / North Yorkshire) was met with some anger and derision across the waste industry. No surprises that the loudest voices were those who have invested significant amounts in these projects, not least the successful bidders (or ‘nearly successful’ in the case of Merseyside) in each related procurement.
March 4th, 2013
by Mike Brown
Sometimes it takes a really clear expression of the fundamentals of a point of view to help you see what’s wrong with it. A couple of weekends ago, BBC Radio 4’s Any Questions came to the Gloucester Guildhall. One of the hot local topics is the county council’s incinerator plan, and a number of its opponents were in the audience, and a question was raised about whether it was “a blot on the landscape or a necessary step to securing an ecologically sustainable environment”.
December 18th, 2012
by Adam Baddeley and Chris Cullen
Following on from our blog piece on the treatment capacity of the ‘Big 7’ waste management players in the UK, we have decided to examine the balance between contracted and non-contracted residual waste treatment capacity in the pipeline. By ‘contracted capacity’ we mean facilities that have signed a long-term local authority (LA) contract; ‘non-contracted’ capacity may be facilities that are intending to operate in the merchant sector, or could be currently involved in a procurement process for a local authority contract.
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December 7th, 2012
by Adam Baddeley and Chris Cullen
Last week Eunomia published the latest update to its Residual Waste Infrastructure Review. We thought it would be interesting to cut the numbers differently and take a look at who amongst the ‘Big 7’ players in the UK is actually developing the most new waste treatment capacity.
