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Go Ralph and Val. Neil On Dec 3, 2006, at 3:47 AM, GreenYes group wrote: > > GreenYes > http://groups.google.com/group/GreenYes > > GreenYes@no.address > > Today's topics: > > * Zero Waste Alliance UK - Burning waste makes for more waste - so > tax it - 1 > messages, 1 author > http://groups.google.com/group/GreenYes/browse_thread/thread/ > b77671dff9cc9ec1 > * What's In New York City's Residential and Street Basket Waste? > Now we Know! - > 1 messages, 1 author > http://groups.google.com/group/GreenYes/browse_thread/thread/ > 64606931cd0ee9c7 > > ====================================================================== > ======== > TOPIC: Zero Waste Alliance UK - Burning waste makes for more waste > - so tax it > http://groups.google.com/group/GreenYes/browse_thread/thread/ > b77671dff9cc9ec1 > ====================================================================== > ======== > > == 1 of 1 == > Date: Sat, Dec 2 2006 10:19 am > From: Gary Liss > > > Apologies for Cross-Postings > >> From: "Ralph & Val Barton" <trinibarton@no.address> >> Subject: Press Release-Zero Waste >> Date: Sat, 2 Dec 2006 10:55:10 -0000 >> >> PRESS RELEASE...PRESS RELEASE December 2006 >> Zero Waste Alliance UK >> >> Burning waste makes for more waste - so tax it. >> Communities and waste recyclers from across the UK have come >> together as >> The Zero Waste Alliance in support of a consultative declaration >> sent to the >> Secretary of State, David Miliband pointing the way forward to >> revolutionising the UK's attitudes to waste: >> * Switch Subsidies to Food waste Collection & Composting >> * Set Recycling Targets to 75% >> * Extend Producer Responsibility >> * Give Carbon Credits to Recycling & Composting >> * Recognise Incineration as Disposal >> all & more proposals to stop the dash to burn >> waste that creates climate changing greenhouse >> gases (Heat and Power from Waste produces >> thousands of tonnes of greenhouse gases, toxic gases and toxic ash.) >> >> The Declaration "UK Waste Policy - A Bridge Half >> Built" is prepared by the educational charity >> company, Zero Waste Alliance UK in consultation >> with many others. It recognises advances made >> since the report "Waste not Want not" by the >> Government's Strategy Unit on Waste in 2002 for >> instance by the increase in landfill taxes, but argues that much >> more needs >> to be done to make the large scale disposal of >> waste unattractive in favour of not creating >> waste[1] and encouraging the production of >> products that can be safely re-used, recycled or composted. >> >> Chairman of Zero Waste Alliance UK, Ralph Ryder, >> says "We need radical decisions in government >> to turn the UK from a throw away society to one >> that conserves the world's resources and reduces >> greenhouse gases. Burning waste even with some >> heat and energy produced solves nothing. It >> produces greenhouse gases. It encourages the >> production of waste needed to feed the >> incinerator. It produces toxins to air & land. It wastes valuable >> resources & energy. >> >> A Zero Waste policy says we need to reduce waste >> and what is produced should be able to be safely >> re-used, recycled or composted. Once >> manufacturers no longer have a disposal route >> to hide behind they will have to produce safe >> products. But Government must set the scene to enable these >> things to happen" >> >> The proposals in the Declaration include >> recommending the setting of long term recycling >> and composting targets of 75% by 2015, pressing >> for the introduction of the Biowaste Directive >> and its requirement for kerbside kitchen waste >> collections, switching government subsidies from >> PFI schemes to the start up costs of food waste >> collection and composting, extending carbon >> credits to recycling and composting, extending >> Producer Responsibility legislation, research >> into health effects of pollution and an incinerator tax. >> >> The recommendations in full are as follows: - >> >> 1. Set long term recycling and composting >> targets of 75% for all local authorities by >> 2015, (and a minimum of 60% for each individual >> local authority) along with waste minimisation >> targets, to prevent their crowding out by local >> and regional long term disposal contracts. >> >> 2. Press the EU to introduce the Biowaste >> Directive, and its requirement for kerbside >> kitchen waste collections in all cities, towns >> and villages with over 1,500 population. >> >> 3. Switch the government subsidy of PFI >> schemes to the start up costs of food waste >> collection and composting, as part of the >> Treasury's forthcoming Comprehensive Spending Review. >> >> 4. Extend the grant of carbon credits to >> recycling and composting to reflect their impact >> on the reduction of CO2 emissions generated by >> the production of virgin materials. >> >> 5. Extend Producer Responsibility >> Legislation to cover all materials in the >> household waste stream, and raise the targets >> for recycling of plastic packaging, glass and >> metals under existing legislation to those set >> by the leading countries in Europe. >> >> 6. Recognise incineration as disposal not >> recovery, in line with the EU Waste Framework >> Directive and rulings of the European Court of Justice. >> >> 7. Fund a major research programme to >> identify the hazards of nano particles, >> particulate aerosols, and brominated flame >> retardants that arise from the burning of mixed waste. >> >> 8. Introduce an incineration tax of at least £12 per tonne. >> >> 9. Charge incinerator bottom ash at the >> full level of landfill tax (rather than the £2 a >> tonne which it currently enjoys by virtue of its >> unwarranted classification as inert waste) and >> reduce the landfill tax to £6 a tonne for >> bio-degradable waste, stabilised to the levels >> set out in the 2nd draft of the Biowaste Directive. >> >> 10. Require compulsory insurance against future >> pollution and health claims for all disposal and recovery facilities. >> >> Our Declaration concludes >> "What is required is return to the boldness of >> the Strategy Unit's policy, and a shift of >> finance and incentives towards composting and >> recycling. Climate Change policy calls for it. >> The Government should respect the evidence, free >> itself from the disposal centred waste industry, >> and complete the work that was left half >> finished after the Strategy Unit's Review" >> See Contact details below >> >> Contact: >> Val Barton, Director, Zero Waste Alliance UK Tel/Fax: >> 01434 345 456 >> >> Email: val@no.address Website: www.zwallianceuk.org >> <http://www.zwallianceuk.org/> >> >> Or Worku Lakew, CEO, Tower Hamlets Community Recycling Consortium >> (THCRC) >> and is a Director of the National Community >> Recycling Network (CRN). Providing recycling >> services to 80.000 Residents in blocks of flats >> Worku has a background in economic development >> and social change as well as urban regeneration >> and sustainability. THCRC has invented the >> permanent combination of Outreach work and >> doorstep recycling and is a strong practitioner >> of local loop processing working in such areas >> as glass processing and composting. >> >> Or call Rob Hill Chairman of Northlands >> Park Residents' Association. A community of >> 10,000 people living a quarter of a mile from a >> proposed 650,000 tonne RDF (Refuse Derived Fuel >> now sometimes called Solid Recovered Fuel. SRF) >> manufacturing plant, which has clauses in the >> waste local plan that could see this yet feed an incinerator. >> >> December 2006 >> >> Zero Waste Alliance UK is a company registered >> by guarantee in England & Wales, number 4452297, >> <http://www.zwallianceuk.org/> Registered >> Office: 57 Tosson Terrace, Heaton, Newcastle Upon Tyne, NE6 5LY >> >> [1] Municipal waste generated in England fell by >> 3% 2005/6. Recycling levels have risen to 27% > > Gary Liss > 916-652-7850 > Fax: 916-652-0485 > www.garyliss.com > > > > > > ====================================================================== > ======== > TOPIC: What's In New York City's Residential and Street Basket > Waste? Now we > Know! > http://groups.google.com/group/GreenYes/browse_thread/thread/ > 64606931cd0ee9c7 > ====================================================================== > ======== > > == 1 of 1 == > Date: Sat, Dec 2 2006 1:18 pm > From: "nycrecycles" > > > Dear Colleagues: > > I am pleased to announce that the New York City Department of > Sanitation has posted final results of its 2004-05 Residential and > Street Basket Waste Characterization Study on its website: > www.nyc.gov/nycwasteless. Follow the links to "What's in NYC's > Waste?" > or go straight to: > http://www.nyc.gov/html/nycwasteless/html/recycling/ > waste_char_study.shtml. > > I welcome comments and questions on this study. > > > > Samantha MacBride > Deputy Director, Recycling > Bureau of Waste Prevention, Reuse and Recycling > New York City Department of Sanitation > 44 Beaver Street, 6th floor > New York, NY 10004 > 917-237-5647 > > > > > > ====================================================================== > ======== > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "GreenYes" > group. > > To post to this group, send email to GreenYes@no.address or > visit http://groups.google.com/group/GreenYes > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to GreenYes- > unsubscribe@no.address > > To change the way you get mail from this group, visit: > http://groups.google.com/group/GreenYes/subscribe > > To report abuse, send email explaining the problem to > abuse@no.address > > ====================================================================== > ======== > Google Groups: http://groups.google.com > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "GreenYes" group. 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