Councillor: I understand anger over waste plant (From Worcester News)

• "The facts are; We do not need to incinerate or landfill; there are better cheaper options used by other councils. Waste levels are falling and there is increasing incinerator capacity in the West Mids. The incinerator could cost over £1 billion of taxpayers money with or without PFI, disgraceful when £100 million is being slashed from council budgets. Large quantities of recyclable waste is being landfilled why? 25% of what is burned is ash, much of which goes to landfill???
  
  Councillor Smith, clearly a nimby himself, is badly informed like the rest of his contemporaries on WCC.
  His nimby colleagues seem to have wasted 10 years trying to find a site no where near them, to burn waste, instead of looking at better options. They have also employed consultants to help pass this project at even further expense to tax payers.
  
  Mr Smith does not realise that the nimby argument has long since moved on and the real issue is cost cost and even more cost.
  Has Mr Smith heard of PFI?
  Councils who have put the work in, now get much better deals for their tax payers, so Mr Smith taxpayers just need to replace the likes of you for someone who is better informed, no need to wait 50 years. Next May will be fine.
  
  Some councils have recycling levels of over 60% and are paid for their recyclable material. At £26 per tonne this doesn’t sound much but for 200,000 tonnes a year that is a benefit of over £5 million pounds.
  Currently this costs us over £5 million, so perhaps we are £10 million down to start with. The contractor then keeps all profit from selling the recyclable material.
  There are currently no plans to connect to the national grid and a potential £100 million will be lost in revenue as the rural location means there is not potential to use the heat.
  There is no final business case and the contract is a secret.
  They seem to have a better understanding of the issues in Hereford. See http://www.herefordt
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