Waste Contract Project Schedule

Extracts from the Project Schedule for the Waste Project.

Para 5.1B.2 during the period when the compensation period applies, the Contractor receives less than twelve thousand nine hundred and seventeen (12,917) tonnes per month such that the Contractor is compensated on the basis set out in paragraph 5.1.A.2"

Revealing that the Councils will be in the business of ensuring that enough waste is produced in order to feed the process and their partners. This nullifies any waste minimisation and reduction measures and is in breach of various policies in the Waste Regulations 2011, Waste Prevention Programmes, EU legislation on not dumping bio-waste into the blackbin (see Waste Contract 2) etc

Yet the review process supposedly carried out through the Waste Plan process was supposed to ensure that such inflexibility was not built into any proposals.

OS 4.1; 4.3; 6.1;
Schedules to the Project Agreement

Schedule 17
5.6.5 use all reasonable endeavours to adjust the Net Calorific Value, Moisture Content or organic Content (as the case may be) of the NWTF Residual waste transported by the Contractor to the NWTF by prioritising NWTF Residual waste from any Delivery POint with an appropriate Net Calorific Value, Moistire Content or Organic Content (as the case may be) (to the extent it is available);


5.6.6 Schedule 17
use all reasonable endeavours to agree with the Councils measures that the councils may be able to implement or procure, in order that the Net Calorific Value, Moisture content and/or Organic content (as the case may be) of the NWTF Residual Waste can be improved;

Showing that waste of a 'calorific', 'organic' or suitable 'moisture' content (ie bio-degradable food and garden waste currently being composted at vital earth (household brownbin) and plastics (household blue bin ) is to be 'procured' somehow. Waste resources which are currently being separated by the householder and business/industry will thus be destroyed instead.

Plans recently passed by the council to remove recycling collections on 50 streets in the arboretum ward, in breach of guidance from defra ie that there is no reason to remove recycling.

Waste will therefore be moved down the hierarchy from its currently more sustainable position of being recycled, so this will be detroyed instead ie incinerated. The council will be expected to procure it.