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UK: Waste adviser Peter Jones defends position on recycling

Jones is reported in the Daily Mail and Daily Telegraph as calling for an "urgent" review of the government's recycling strategy, which could be contributing to global warming because reprocessing and transport costs.

But in a statement Jones said his view was the complete opposite of the one portrayed in the media and represented a personal view on some technical issues.

"At the moment I believe there are effective and successful policies in place for composting and recycling.

"But we need as full an understanding as possible of the carbon implications of all collection and treatment methods of our rubbish to demonstrate the substantial additional further carbon savings that can be made," he said.

One of the issues raised by the media is increased use of energy from waste facilities, although recycling remains the preferred option.

Peter Davis, director general of the British Plastics Federation, said it was important to generate more power from waste, particularly in London where seven million people were served by two EfW plants, but recycling was preferred.

"First and foremost plastic waste should be recycled, but where this does not make environmental and economical sense, it should go to energy from waste. Plastics recycling is rising fast at the moment and we continue to support that," he said.

A spokeswoman for the Department for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs defended the current activity on recycling as the 11m tonne reduction in greenhouse gases last year had been "the equivalent of taking
3.6 million cars off the roads".

She added that there were benefits to "using waste as an alternative source of power" and was working with local authorities and industry "to do just that".

A spokesperson for London mayor Boris Johnson said: "There is no doubt recycling is preferable to it being buried in landfill or burned in incinerators."

Jones is a former director of waste firm Biffa who now sits on the London Waste and Recycling Board.

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