Cue people moaning about the waste to energy plant.

We still need to sort out where our actual waste is going. Its not fair to expect other counties to continue taking it.

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good news, well done, we should aim for 60 or why not 75 % like in Belgium and Wales

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other councils are recycling over 60% now so this doesnt look very ambitious

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depends, are you a glass is half full or a glass is half empty person?

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i think we still have a long way to go to catch up with germany and the nederland, my pen pal live in germany and has their rubbish bin collected monthly!! they also collect all plastics and plasticised drinks cartons for recycling though so its a miles better service that the rubbish one offered by shropshire council, its only going down hill because they used to collect batteries and shoes when it was Shrewsbury council and now they dont bother so they have to go in the rubbish bin instead, this is a backwards step and to me it shows they are cutting front line services already whilst they still pay their executives big money and charge high tax

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part of the reason the council can boast such high figures is because they do not include construction waste and business waste, all councils do this to manipulate their statistics but it belies the real scale of the waste mountain in this country, you can see yoursefl if you go to a cafe or pub, no one recycles there even though businesses are produced ten times more waste that us households we have all this investment and red tape for household waste yet we ignore the majority of it, utter utter madness

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the public should be thanked they do all the real work by sorting it out after all!!

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i just cant believe how igorant the council has been of public opinion on this incinerator. From the outset there has been a huge ground swell of public opinion against it, on safety cost and environmental ground, my personal bug bear is the aesthetics of a modern desgin on the edge of shrewsbury visible from the ancient battefield it will scar the landscape and be the first thing rail visitors see as they arrive into town from the north, it will put off the tourists big time as well as destroying valuable precious resources like cans, plastic etc which are worth thousands of pounds per tonne as opposed to a few pence as electicity

ps – maria huw has already commented! see above

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it is only right people complain about the incinerator and the muppets who signed up to a 27 year PFI contract, you mark my words the public is being fleeced by these big long term pfi contracts, alot of this will come out in the independant audit of the national accounts being done, there is billions of debt in there and its like buying things on a credit card, the whole idea of renting an incinerator off a private company at credit card interest rates, paying them to operate it, paying them to build it, paying them a fee for the waste disposal and then paying them to collect the stuff for the lifetime of that plant is madness, and as for applying for planning permission to yourself, well the whole thing is scandalous

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the ever improving recycling rate combined with massive declines in waste tonnages locally and nationally since the improved packaging agreements have kicked in are proof enough for me that the incinerator is not neccessary, there is simply no need

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its not that bad because we dont need rubbish and we do need electricity so for me its logical to burn anything and everything we have coal, wood, rubbish whatever it has to be better than those ghastly wind turbines

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not really bovered

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atleast he says thankyou, all the people whoe recycle can be very proud of their effort and to be fair the council have done a reasoable job, the food waste collection being weekly here is a fantastic service which makes a massive reduction to the amount i chuck out now, apparently the conservatives are goging to make all waste collections weekly again which is a good thing

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incineration is never econmic without subsidies like landfill tax and renewable certificates, we should look at more economic forms of waste treatment like recycling and mechanical-biological treatment for our rubbish

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since that french firm took over basic service standard has gone right down hill, they are cutting costs right left and centre and have terrible customer service chucking the boxes around and leaving behind all the clothes i put out for recycling, i cant be bothered, i do their work for them from now on ill just chuck it in the bin instead see how they like that

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