Sixth Annual Monitoring Report

Waste

3.22 There was one new waste management facility which became operable during the reporting year, a waste transfer station handling construction, demolition and excavation waste.

3.23 The amount of municipal waste again declined from last years total of 170,944.99 tonnes. The amount recycled/composted increased in actual terms and was 37% of the total, compared to 35% last year.

National, Regional and Local policy – Waste

National Policy

3.24 The Government announced in July 2010 that it is to carry out a full review of waste policy in England, looking at the most effective ways of reducing waste, maximising the money to be made from waste and recycling and how waste policies affect local communities and individual households.

Regional Spatial Strategy

3.25 Regional Spatial Strategies have been revoked under s79(6) of the Local Democracy Economic Development and Construction Act 2009 and no longer form part of the development plan for the purposes of s38(6) of the Planning and Compulsory Purchase Act 2004.

3.26 The regional planning function of Regional Local Authority Leader's Boards - the previous Regional Assemblies - is being wound up and their central government funding ended after September this year. The planning data and research they currently hold will still be available to local authorities for the preparation of their Local Development Frameworks whilst they put their own alternative arrangements in place for the collection and analysis of evidence.

National Studies

Construction, demolition and excavation waste (CDEW) arisings, use and disposal for England 2008.

3.27 In 2005 estimates were generated for certain key components of mainly-inert CDEW in England. WRAP, Capita Symonds and Alfatek Redox (UK) sought to update these estimates with the 2008 study named above. The headline figure was 83.24 million tonnes of CDEW generated in 2008, which is down by 7% on the 2005 figure of 89.63 million tonnes. Of this waste, 19.53 million tonnes was deposited at permitted landfill sites in 2008; which is down by 30% from the 2005 figure of 27.75 million tonnes.

Regional Studies

Study to fill the evidence gaps for Construction, Demolition and Excavation waste streams in the North West region of England

3.28 The North West Regional Technical Advisory Body (NWRTAB) for Waste and the North West RAWP (which has membership of officers from the Environment Agency, all of the North West Minerals and Waste Planning Authorities and the North West Regional Assembly) commissioned a waste survey for the North West region of England.  This was funded from the BREW fund, the North West Minerals and Waste Planning Authorities (Cheshire, Lancashire, Cumbria, 10 GM Authorities, Merseyside and Warrington), the Environment Agency and the North West Regional Assembly. 

3.29 The study, published in July 2007, was undertaken by Smiths Gore and represents the most up-to-date information available for this waste stream.  However, the results have not been broken down below regional estimates due to the low return rate of surveys. The survey estimated that some 11,345,222 tonnes of waste was generated in 2006, compared to the national survey result of 10,792,823 tonnes for 2005.  

Greater Manchester Construction, Demolition and Excavation Waste (CDEW).

3.30 The 2008 Environment Agency waste interrogator data provides a figure of 1,299,421 tonnes of CDEW for the Greater Manchester sub-region.

North West England Commercial & Industrial Waste Arisings Survey 2009.

3.31 The Local Authorities of the North West Region, plus 4NW, have commissioned a survey of the waste produced by Commercial and Industrial companies throughout the region to update the regional assessment of total waste arisings. The survey details that the total North West regional arisings for 2009 totals 7,631,158 tonnes which is down 6% on the 2006 survey. Of the total arisings, 20.2% was landfilled abd 59.8% was recycled.

Development of a Joint Waste Development Plan Document (JWDPD)

3.32 Consultation on the JWDPD Preferred Option Report has ended and the Outcome Report is available to view online. The Publication Waste Plan was consulted on in November 2010 with submission planned for February 2011.

3.33 As part of the evidence base for the JWDPD, GMGU commissioned a Needs Assessment in 2007; it was then updated in 2010. The Needs Assessment models future waste arisings alongside current and planned waste capacity data to identify future waste treatment and disposal requirements. The headline figures for waste arisings in Greater Manchester are as follows:

• 2,517,010 tonnes of Commercial and Industrial waste per annum.
• 1,299,421 tonnes of Construction and Demolition waste per annum which is under management.
• 275,000 tonnes of Solid Derived Fuel, created from the municipal solid waste management methods of the PFI sites.
• 300,000 tonnes of agricultural waste.

Municipal Waste Management Strategies (MWMS)

3.34 The Municipal Waste Management Strategy for the borough was adopted in December 2009 and provides a framework for managing local authority collected waste arisings until 2030. The aim of the strategy includes reducing local authority collected waste growth to 1% by 2010 and 0% by 2020 and increasing recycling at Household Waste Recycling Centres to 70% by 2013.

3.35 The table below indicates the forecast local authority collected waste arisings within the borough at five year intervals throughout the plan period, illustrating the predicted arrest in growth in waste arisings in line with targets.