Surrey’s ‘radical shift’ towards energy from waste

25 October 2006

A new strategy for dealing with waste in Surrey has been given the green light by councillors.
The scheme has been considered controversial because it advocates the idea of disposing of additional waste through two new energy-from-waste plants in the county, which would provide enough power to run 17,000 homes every year.
The plan, which Surrey County Council has described as a ‘radical shift’ in how it deals with waste, has been approved.
The plan is now official waste strategy but will have to wait until county and all 11 district and borough councils meet on 2 November when the new system will be rubber-stamped.
After two major consultations and a year of county-wide debate, the joint municipal waste strategy has been agreed by the council’s executive and was approved by the full council this week.
The strategy proposes residents cut the amount of rubbish they create in the first place – by buying less packaging and pushing up the rates of reuse and recycle at far higher rates than in the past – doubling Surrey’s recycling rate to 60% and investing heavily to make sure recycling centres are making the business of recycling as easy as possible.

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