Wales needs 400 new treatment plants

13 December 2007
 
Wales needs a massive step change in waste disposal, including, possibly, 400 new waste-treatment plants over the next six years, if targets are to be met and landfill sites remain functional, a waste expert has warned.

Professor Adam Read, head of waste management at Hyder Consulting, is carrying out a consultation process with communities, authorities and industry to see where up to 400 new plants could be installed across the principality.

‘We are taking a broad look at all types of waste and waste solutions in the first review of regional waste plants since Wales was split into three separate waste areas,’ said Read. He said that massive investment in infrastructure was needed to cope with what he saw as a growing problem.

‘People are talking about targets of 50% and even 70% recycling – but where’s the infrastructure? We are trying to establish areas where new plants should and, more importantly, shouldn’t be built.’ The research, set to be completed by the end of the year, will be passed on to the regional waste authorities which will use the results to influence unitary and local development plans.

‘Hopefully, by June, planners will be using guidelines based around what we find,’ said Read. ‘We are trying to cover all the options to see if people want a small recycling plant in a community to make it easier to recycle, or if they have a more regional outlook, using economies of scale with less, but bigger plants.’

A Welsh Assembly spokesman said: ‘The Welsh Government is committed to ensuring a step change in Wales to make sure as much waste as possible is reused and wherever possible, doesn’t go to landfill.’

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