Cardiff Council is launching a major procurement process to develop an organic waste (food & green waste) treatment plant for the city. The scheme will treat your segregated food and green waste collected by the Council with the aim of ensuring long term environmental, financial and commercial benefits are secured.
Securing a new contract will ensure the impact on the environment of organic waste is reduced and contribute to Cardiff’s waste, recycling and composting targets. This new contract will replace existing temporary contracts that already divert waste away from landfill, but we need to maximise this for the long term.
We are approaching the procurement on a technology neutral basis and aim to attract interest from bidders proposing suitable technologies, for example:
- Anaerobic Digestion (AD),
- In-Vessel Composting (IVC) solutions,
- Open Windrow, and/or similar technologies or combinations thereof.
A designated treatment site with the necessary planning (for a 50ktpa IVC facility) is already in Council ownership at Lamby Way and is optional for consideration. Planning Permission and Environmental Permits are already in place for an IVC. Further planning permission may be necessary depending on the nature of the successful bidder’s solutions and other sites can be proposed by the market.
This scheme follows the implementation of a successful move to weekly recycling and food waste collection in September underlining the Council’s commitment to sustainable solutions to the waste we all produce. The weekly food recycling service has already seen recycling rates go up considerably as the scheme has settled down and the organic waste project is the last major component of the Council’s Waste Strategy 2011 – 2016.
Executive Member for Environment, Cllr Margaret Jones said, “Cardiff Council has a dynamic approach to building a sustainable future for Cardiff. We have shown with the change to a weekly recycling and food waste collection service that diverting waste away from landfill and using green solutions wherever possible is a top priority for the Council. The organic waste scheme forms a key part of our agenda for a cleaner, greener Cardiff and will look to use the latest green technologies to achieve the key objectives in our waste strategy.”
