[greenyes] Sorting Organic Wastes?

[Keith Ripley <vze3gxms@no.address>]

Hi all.
I'm curious. Anybody know of studies/data supporting or refuting the 
Dutch conclusion (see below) that sorting organics is a waste of time 
from the environmental point of view? Or practical experience (at 
municipal scale or larger) along those lines?
Thanks,
Keith

Source: Milieu Magazine (Netherlands), June 2004

> Waste Sorting Not Green Any More
>
> According to an as yet unpublished report from the Dutch Waste 
> Disposal Consultative Committee (AOO), sorting vegetable waste for 
> recycling is no longer green, and local authorities can stop requiring 
> it. The environmental advantages are far from clear – but how is the 
> news to be broken to consumers?
>
> The subject is certainly a difficult one. On 11 March, the AOO was 
> supposed to make a decision and recommend to the Secretary of State, 
> M. van Geel – who had specifically asked for it – to abandon the 
> collection of vegetable waste currently required by law.
> Officially, local authorities “will have greater autonomy in the 
> collection of organic waste.”
>
> The participants in the AOO would like to present the issue in such a 
> way that local authorities, despite having less freedom to act, will 
> continue to process vegetable waste separately. The message is that 
> from the point of view of environmental health, collection and 
> incineration are no better or worse than separation and composting. So 
> a major publicity campaign aimed at consumers will be required – 
> otherwise they might think that sorting waste is unimportant or, 
> worse, that they have been wasting their time sorting waste for the 
> last ten years. The AOO expects that local authorities will continue 
> to collect sorted waste, purely for cost reasons as transporting this 
> waste to the incinerator is more expensive.
> Info: t.hirdes@no.address; vaop@no.address; w.elsinga@no.address


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