WASTE MANAGEMENT UPDATE
By Colin Smith – Operational Manager
Neighbourhood Services [Operations]
WASTE MANAGEMENT UPDATE
Explanation how we treat, recycle and dispose of recycling and waste
Recycling rates
Future service changes
Performance of service
changes to date
Our aims as a country
HWRC Llandow
Waste Disposal
Treated at Viridor’ s Energy
Recovery Facility (ERF) as part of
the Prosiect Gwyrdd (PG) Initiative
A 25 year contract (as of 1st April
2016) with Cardiff, Newport,
Caerphilly, Monmouthshire and VoG
Treats black bag waste from
collections, street cleaning, HWRC’s
and bulky waste (ex. metals)
350,000 tonne pa facility and largest
ERF in Wales (expanding up to
420,000 tonnes)
A facility that can generate enough
energy to power over 50,000 homes
Trident Park ERF
Organic Waste (Food & Green)
Two new facilities procured jointly with Cardiff City Council
15-year contract as part of Welsh Government’s (WG) Food Waste
Treatment Programme
Food waste treated at a new Anaerobic Digestion facility (AD) located
in Cardiff and has energy recovery
A green waste Open Windrowed Compost (OWC) facility at Cardiff City
Council’s Lamby Way Depot
Both built by Kelda Organic Energy (Cardiff) now owned by Welsh
Water
Cardiff host authority and Vale has an IAA with Cardiff Council
Food Waste - AD Facility
Anaerobic Digestion (AD) to
process food waste
35,000 tonne facility
OUTPUT – methane-rich biogas
and separated digestate for
agricultural use
Produces enough energy to
power 4,000 homes
Reduces the release of harmful
landfill gases into the atmosphere
Zero waste to landfill
Green Waste - Open Windrow Composting
(OWC)
Collected, shredded and
stored in rows
Rows are turned to
improve oxygen content,
mix in or remove
moisture, and to
redistribute cooler and
hotter portions of the pile
Output - compost
DRY RECYCLING
Paper, metals, glass, plastics,
cardboard
Recycling bulked in Cowbridge
Collected by Casepak Ltd and
transported to Leicester
Contract with Casepak Ltd to
process and sort materials
(expires April 2019) through a
Materials Recovery Facility
(MRF)
Alternative site for interim
arrangement currently being
procured
Where does our recycling end up?
% of MRF
Material Output Destination
OCC (Old Corrugated Cardboard) 1.24 China 76% / India 14% / Indonesia 10%
Mixed Papers 40.42 India 54% / Indonesia 26% / UK 11% / Germany 9%
HDPE Plastic (High Density Polyethylene) 0.63 100% UK
Milk jugs, cleaning agents, shampoo bottles etc..
PET Plastic 2.74 France 39% / Turkey 36% / UK 25%
Water bottles, cooking oil bottles etc..
Mixed Plastics 6.98 France 47% / UK 37% / Belgium 7% / Spain 6% / Turkey 3%
Mixed pots, tubs, trays
Film 7.76 Turkey 84% / Poland 14% / UK 2%
Glass (0-10mm) 2.21 UK 100%
Glass (10-40mm) 26.07 UK 100%
Steel 4.74 UK 100%
Aluminium 1.2 UK 67% / Germany 33%
Post-Sort Residue 6.01 Holland 89% / UK 11%
Note: Casepak plant output 100%
Recycling rates
Current recycling target set by WG is 58% (2015/16)
Targets now statutory within Wales Waste Measure 2010
Next statutory target is 64% 2019/20 and 70% by 2024/25
Our performance (recycling rate) for 2018/19 will be approximately 64%
Black bag restrictions introduced September will increase performance
during target year
Failing to achieve statutory recycling targets = £200 per tonne fines
Future service changes
Next service change is to implement a source separated recycling collection service (2019/20)
Necessary as a result of implementing Article 11 of the EU Revised Waste Framework
Directive (January 15) through Waste Regulations (England and Wales) 2011 (amended 2012)
Places a duty to collect separately at least paper, metal, glass and plastics
If comingled a necessity test and TEEP assessment must be undertaken. Must achieve high
quality recycling and no worse of than collecting separately
Time is right for VoG to change to capture financial support
Only compliant Council’s considered for WG’s collaborative change funding (CCP)
Source separated recycling benefits – Lower revenue costs, reduced carbon footprint, higher
quality material, minimal contamination, captures local/UK markets, adds to the circular
economy agenda, resource orientated (creates jobs), compliant with current
guidance/legislation
VoG secured capital funding of £3.5m for 2018/19 to introduce service change
VoG prioritised for further funding 2019/20
Future Waste Changes
Implementation of the ‘Collections blueprint’
Collections from late summer 2019 in the Vale (TBC)
Spring 2020 for Barry and late summer 2020 for Penarth (TBC)
WTS being developed, containers
and vehicles selected
Waste Transfer Station (WTS)
Interim site for service roll out Draft design for permanent site
secured in Cowbridge completed
Securing site, ground
Design and remedial works investigations and detail design
required to accommodate in progress
sorting
Performance of Service Changes
to date
30% decrease of residual waste from
kerbside collections
59% decrease of residual waste at
HWRC’s
26% increase in food waste recycling
20% increase in dry recycling
Source: WDF quarter 3 - 2018/19
Our aims as a country
2025: Towards Zero 2010 2050: Achieving Zero
Waste Waste
Significant waste reduction
(including reuse) (27%
Waste prevention and 70% recycling Reduce our share of Wales’
reduction)
targets ecological footprint to ‘one
Wales: one planet’ levels by
Recycling rate of at least 70%
2050 (65% reduction of waste)
AD food waste priority 2025
Produce no residual waste,
through more sustainable
‘Closed loop recycling’ systems
consumption and production -
(high quality, separate
Waste Prevention / 100% recycling any waste that is produced is
collection)
re-used/ recycled (at 100%).
Residual waste to high
efficiency EfW
2050
As close to zero landfill as
possible
Our performance as a country
Wales
Source: Eunomia Consulting 2017
HWRC Llandow
Lease expires December 2019
Current site not suitable for another long term arrangement
Efforts to improve current site unsuccessful
Future options being considered
Relocation on existing site and an alternative location possible
Intension to invite expressions of interest from land owners
Any questions?
