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An independent review of Jersey's waste strategy has raised serious questions about the size of the planned energy from waste incinerator.

It could be far too big and that, say the report's authors, could cause serious problems for running the plant.

Jersey has opted for what's called a moving grate incinerator with a capacity for handling around 160,000 tonnes of waste every year - more than double the capacity of the Bellozanne incinerator.

Juniper - a firm of specialist consultants hired by the Environment Scrutiny Panel - says the type of incinerator planned needs to be fed a constant stream of material. They warn that if the rubbish stream becomes too small, serious operational problems arise.

Jersey is committed to reducing volumes of rubbish and parishes could arbitrarily stop sending some of their waste for incineration. Kitchen and green waste can quickly be turned into compost in one of a new breed of in-vessel plants.

Other materials can be collected, sorted and exported - as Cardiff City Council have been doing in recent years to meet a Welsh Assembly target of 65% recycling.

There's agreement that an incinerator of some sort will be needed, but Juniper believe the island should look at a much smaller more versatile plant which can be scaled up or down according to the volumes of rubbish being created

Typical States buying something which is going to end up costing a fortune to run...

We also need to make this a priority very soon
The time has come and our space is running out
do we share one with jersey or do we go buy a biggun and import rubbish..making us money
We need to address this very soon
we have new members in our government who have the knowledge to find out what is best for us
I only hope it happens as soon as possible for us to have the best environment friendly crap eating machine we can afford

when the incinerator eats up all the rubbish you are left with contaminated waste that would need shipping off island thereby costing money.so yes we will need to look at an incinerator but we need to look closely at the mistakes made in other jurisdictions before a decision is made .

I agree we do need to sort something out but to import rubbish a definite no no imo , as i have said many times we need to recycle more as much as possible in fact then possibly build a cheaper smaller incinerator to deal with the rest .

When i say recycle i mean all things that people have no use for anymore ,like the one set up at Longue Houge but much bigger and including absolutely everything . Along with kerbside we could be n to a winner.