Few would argue that Wales needs to step up the pace in implementing more effective ways to reduce & recycle what is euphemistically called ‘municipal waste’ – although there is little actual agreement on method. So it must come as welcome news of sorts that the South West Wales Regional Waste Management Committee, a consortium of local authorities, is about to select a site for an anaerobic digestion (AD) treatment works to dispose of food waste.
Swansea has been doing its own thing in that direction for a while, as seen in earlier reports on the proposed use of Felindre. Associated proposals have attracted controversy and the inevitable antics but the site appears to have been shortlisted nonetheless. This week, the council’s cabinet will discuss a business case; or at least give that appearance by some of them moving their lips.
But as is always the state of joined-up thinking at Calamity Hall, an otherwise bright idea ends up as faultless in every way except that it breaches current planning policies. This is enough of a drawback in itself but the added insistence on discussing related issues behind closed doors for ‘commercial reasons’ is an own-goal in the making. Let us hope that it does not result in losing the game altogether.
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