Caerphilly county borough council will consider a special report today (Tuesday 6 October) outlining options for a new waste transfer facility to be developed in the area.
The proposed site would act as a ‘staging post’ where waste material is bulked together before being loaded on to larger vehicles for transportation to waste plants outside the area. No on-site treatment of waste would take place at the facility.
“This is an important project for the council and fits alongside the other key partnership schemes that we are currently involved with to help improve our waste management. We appreciate that developments of this nature can be controversial and we are keen to ensure that any proposed scheme would be clean, green and efficient in order to maximise our opportunities to sort waste in the most effective way possible,” said Cllr Lyn Ackerman, cabinet member for the environment.
At the meeting councillors will consider giving the green light for the new facility to be built at the former Trehir landfill site near Caerphilly.
The operation would deal with waste material (both recyclable material and general refuse) which would be sorted and then transferred to bulk haulage vehicles for transportation to appropriate recycling or waste treatment facilities outside the area. This will also help cut the number of vehicle journeys being made and reduce the council’s carbon footprint.
The site would also allow potential transfer of compostable waste (food and garden) to specialist treatment facilities.
If the scheme is agreed, it is anticipated that the Trehir site would become operational in 2012.
A building at Dyffryn Business near Ystrad Mynach (former St Ives site), which was purchased by the authority as part of previous negotiations to create a waste transfer facility, may now be sold on the open market.
