Region’s Waste Challenge

1. Region’s Waste Challenge Waste arisings including Municipal Wastes

2. Region’s Waste Challenge Waste arisings excluding Municipal Wastes

3. Comparison of waste arisings in the region, with and without municipal wastes With Without

4. “We face a waste production and disposal crisis” SEERA Regional Waste Management Strategy, Consultation Draft, March 2003)

5. Regional Waste Management Strategy • The Call to Action • Waste growing annually • EU Landfill Directive - Targets & fines • UK government targets – Waste Strategy 2000, Best Value • Cabinet Office Strategy Unit report Dec 2002 • Sustainable development

6. EU Landfill Directive(Council Directive 1999/31/EC)

7. EU Landfill DirectiveArticle 1 “…….to provide for measures, procedures and guidance to prevent or reduce as far as possible negative effects on the environment, in particular the pollution of surface water, groundwater, soil and air, and on the global environment, including the greenhouse effect, as well as any resulting risk to human health, from landfilling of waste, during the wholelife cycle of the landfill.”

8. EU Landfill DirectiveArticle 4 Each landfill site is to be classified into one of the following 3 types: • Inert • Non-hazardous • Hazardous

9. EU Landfill DirectiveArticle 5 • Reduction of biodegradable wastes to landfill • Ban on landfilling liquid wastes • Ban on landfilling whole and shredded tyres • Ban on waste dilution • Requirement to pre-treat wastes and to test wastes before landfilling

10. UK Legislative and Regulatory Changes • Waste Strategy 2000 • Waste Not, Want Not • Waste and Emissions Trading Bill • Planning and Compulsory Purchase Bill • Waste Incineration Directive Regulations

11. Waste and Emissions Trading Bill “To make provision about waste and about penalties”

12. Regional Waste Mgmt Strategy

13. South East Regional Technical Advisory Body for Waste (SERTAB)

14. Forecasts of waste growth – reducing rate but continued growth

15. Major Inter-regional Waste Movements

16. Total annual throughput capacity available 2002-2025

17. Forecasts of waste growth – reducing rate but continued growth

18. Infrastructure need & gap 2002-2025

19. Regional Waste Mgmt Strategy

20. Our Vision A region in which natural resources are used and managed efficiently so that by 2025 the amount of waste produced will be minimised, the overwhelming majority of materials will be re-used, recycled, or have value recovered from them, and the environment will be protected and enhanced for future generations.

21. Definitions • Recycling: • Involves the reprocessing of wastes, either into the same product or a different one. (NationalWasteStrategy, GlossaryofTerms)

22. Definitions • Recovery: • Encompasses recycling and composting, and also other methods of recovering value from waste including energy through incineration, anaerobic digestion, pyrolysis and gasification, and the spreading of biodegradable waste(including compost and digestate) on agricultural land. (SEERA RWMS, Glossary ofTerms)

23. Outline of Consultation Draft • Resource management ethos • Emphasis on minimisation • Targets for recycling and recovery • Alternative options - recovery targets • Integrated approach to management • Rapid increase in recovery capacity • Pragmatic self sufficiency & press London to reduce exports • Land use & wider management

24. Preferred Option Landfill Directive and National Waste Strategy 2000 recovery targets are met and exceeded through recycling, composting and digestion, and energy recovery,with minimum disposal to landfill Reflects views expressed in consultation with stakeholders

25. Preferred Option Implications of Preferred Option • Exceeding statutory targets (minimising landfill) increases the challenge • Need for rapid increase in recovery capacity & management, and many new developments & sites • Recycling and composting takes time to develop - could place reliance on energy from waste in short term

26. Preferred Option Implications for recovery targets (current recovery rate for all waste = c.55%)

27. Infrastructure implications(Illustrative) Cumulative New facilities (number depends on size of individual facilities)

28. Alternative Option • Same policy approach but targets are met and not exceeded: • MSW – LFD recovery targets applied to all MSW but final target applied at 2020 (limited effect) • C&I – WS2000 recovery target applied at 2005 only • C&D - WS2000 recovery target applied at 2005 only

29. Alternative Option Implications for recovery targets (% all waste) Current rate for all waste = c.55%

30. Conclusion • Major and urgent challenge • Need to tackle growth in waste • Need for rapid build up of capacity • Need for a large number of new recovery facilities and sites • Need for recovery to be incentivised • Need for recycling to be made easier than disposal • We all must play our part

31. Timetable • Consultation, including workshops, to 23 June 2003 • Policies will form amendment to RPG9 and part of Regional Spatial Strategy • Submission to GOSE end 2003 • Further consultation & Public Examination before approval by SoS

32. Consultation • General waste management – arisings etc., • Targets for recovery and recycling • Technology options • Land use planning – including Green Belt

33. Surrey County Council • Municipal Waste Management Strategy (a Surrey Local Government strategy) - consultation, Summer 2003 • Surrey County Council Structure Plan - Examination in Public, 18 November 2003 • Surrey County Council Waste Local Plan - to review as soon as possible, timetable being discussed now.

34. Thank You