I took Paul Burstow and Tom Brake, our local Lib Dem MP’s round Sutton’s state of the art waste and composting facility at Beddington Lane yesterday. It was a great opportunity to show them how our innovative solutions to dealing with waste are diverting a lot of materials from landfill. With Gordon Brown’s new tax on landfill increasing by £8 per tonne tax per year, this investment will really save local residents money.
The £4 million ‘Mechanical and Biological Treatment’ plant (MBT for short) was made possible through a successful partnership bid to the London Recycling Fund which I led on behalf of Sutton, Croydon and Merton.
The MBT plant separates organic waste in the brown bin from inorganic waste, such as metals and glass. Once the inorganic items have been separated the metals are recovered for recycling. The organic material is then turned into compost. In a separate process green garden waste from all three boroughs is composted in enclosed tunnels to produce a high quality material for use on land.
This use of new technology will help the council to meet its recycling target of 50% by 2010. It will also help Sutton keep down the cost of land filling waste, which is set to increase by £8 tonne per year by reducing the amount of waste that ends up in landfill.
AWARD WINNING
Investment in the plant helped secure a national award for Sutton’s waste and recycling services.
The award recognised the council’s effective communications with residents and its work with partners to develop innovative solutions to the challenge of waste – such as the MBT plant for residual brown bin waste and the borough’s Reuse and Recycling Centre.
The £4 million ‘Mechanical and Biological Treatment’ plant (MBT for short) was made possible through a successful partnership bid to the London Recycling Fund which I led on behalf of Sutton, Croydon and Merton.
The MBT plant separates organic waste in the brown bin from inorganic waste, such as metals and glass. Once the inorganic items have been separated the metals are recovered for recycling. The organic material is then turned into compost. In a separate process green garden waste from all three boroughs is composted in enclosed tunnels to produce a high quality material for use on land.
This use of new technology will help the council to meet its recycling target of 50% by 2010. It will also help Sutton keep down the cost of land filling waste, which is set to increase by £8 tonne per year by reducing the amount of waste that ends up in landfill.
AWARD WINNING
Investment in the plant helped secure a national award for Sutton’s waste and recycling services.
The award recognised the council’s effective communications with residents and its work with partners to develop innovative solutions to the challenge of waste – such as the MBT plant for residual brown bin waste and the borough’s Reuse and Recycling Centre.
2 comments:
Colin
Did you tell Tom and Paul how often the machine keeps breaking down?
Will we get money to upgrade it?
Tim, yes I did tell them about the teething problems that the site is having. I also told them that it is funded from a new technolgies research project and that it brought in £4m, significantly reducing the gate fee to dispose of waste for Sutton residents. What would your alternative proposal be? Colin
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