MEMORANDUM BY CYLCH WALES COMMUNITY RECYCLING
NETWORK (DSW 12)
Cylch welcomes this opportunity to comment on
the efficacy of the published Waste Strategy 2000 in the context
of Sustainable Development because we think that it falls far
short of this aim and that this is disappointing and regrettable.
Please find our comments and observations about
the government's waste strategy enclosed. Also a copy of Cylch's
community based waste strategy for Wales entitled CLEANSTREAM—Total
Resource Recovery Systems that informs the comments. [2]
The strategy did not seem to take much of what
we had submitted to the consultation process on Less Waste—More
Value and A Way With Waste into account. We are particularly disenchanted
with the DETR's resolute refusal to check, verify or adjust/update
the data in part two of A Way With Waste in the light of our criticism
of it that we submitted. It re-appears unchanged in WS2000. Please
check the consultation process itself.
This data deserves detailed attention and some
independent research because it informs the very assumptions on
which the rationale for WS2000 is based and the conclusions and
recommendations it purports to make. In our view it is at best
simply old data and equally old and flawed analysis and at worst
a ploy to favour the impression that the "waste problem"
is so enormous that a programme of building incinerators is the
only viable solution possible.
You may reasonably ask "Is this cock-up
or conspiracy theory?" Either way I question the competence
of the officials in the DETR to carry out this task.
I have been working and campaigning for recycling
for over 12 years now and have become impatient to move things
forward. Whilst recycling has advanced in leaps and bounds in
other countries progress has been stifled here. We have seen several
false dawns in the UK over the last dozen or so years. I am very
keen to try and ensure that this, the latest dawn in that series,
becomes one where the sun actually rises.
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