Who Else Wants To Rise Above Their Rubbish Issues?

As an Island, Guernsey can not blame anyone else for its waste issues, apart from the activities of every man woman child, and commerce on this pleasant traveler location in the Channel Isles.

For many years now, the main dumping ground for the ever-increasing waste (until trends started to reverse last year) had been Mount Cuet, Those of you that live in the vicinity are only too well aware of the issues there due to the waste mountain that grows ever higher every month.

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Squawking seagulls, putrefying smells, gas leaks, flying rubbish... No wonder so many habitancy are at their wits end.

So, let's have an additional one look at the rubbish issues.

I think most habitancy would agree that to reduce, or even remove, the patrimony and the future operation towards waste must integrate everybody acting in a more responsible manner:-

• Buying less pre-packed foods
• Stop the local shops issuing free plastic bags, and make everybody buy 'lifetime' bags
• Buying less disposable items, like nappies, razor blades and so forth.
• Sorting their recycling materials into separate bins from their rubbish
• Putting all their food scraps and green garden waste into an additional one bin.

The question with this plan is that it is starting to levy a lifestyle convert on many people, and could also have a price impact on their usual shopping bills. And if you look at what has happened on the Uk mainland, look at the reputation some Councils have got, where they employ 'snoopers' or get their neighbours to 'shop' anyone who puts the tiniest piece of rubbish in the wrong bin.

Again, most habitancy think that to install a waste management solution that is all-singing all -dancing is going to cost so much as force the Council to have to levy a stiff hike in local taxes.

Well, let's have a look at a 'Utopian' solution, and then let's see if we can come up with a cost for such a great solution...

Ideally, the solution chosen would have all of these characteristics:-

1. A installation that can accept tons of unsorted waste ( even your Municipal Black Bag waste and risky Hospital waste), heating it up adequate with steam at low pressure, for sterilising all of this waste input, so that all pathological risks are removed, all lacquer stripped from tins and aluminium cans, labels from glass jars and bottles (increasing their scrap value)
2. A mechanical installation for automatically sorting All waste, sterilising it, maximising the recycling output, and leaving all the fibrous products ( paper, green waste, wood, etc) ready for inputting to an energy converting process. Right away, this would negate the need for everybody to use separate bins for all their rubbish - recyclable or not. Even the thorough Recycle Bin will have a mix of papers, cardboard, plastics, tins, glass and so forth. This still has to be sorted somehow.
3. A installation for sending all the sorted rubbish (now in fibrous form) into a theory that will convert this matter into green electricity, with no toxic waste to go to any landfill. Also, there would be no need for a weighty smoke stack (as there is with incineration) as the yield into the climate will be about 12 parts per million (Eu regulations state that 200 parts per million is acceptable). This is achieved by using the very latest proven Pyrolysis theory (not gasification). Any residue that is left (especially if crushed demolition debris is passed through) will be perfectly sterile mixture - not the sort of stuff to be thrown away on a landfill, but a perfectly saleable goods to use in road construction and such like.
4. This theory would be able to yield nearby 1 Megawatt of clean electricity for every 1000 tons of rubbish - stuff that in the French electric cable (in more ways than one)
5. As a bonus, this theory should be fully modular to allow for future growth, and also be able to accept dissimilar types of waste input, such as plastic bottles, or even human sewage. Now, with the question affecting the old sewage outlet pipe, here is a way of getting even more bangs for your bucks and manufacture Guernsey more thorough to tourists. (Who likes swimming in seas contaminated with human pool).
6. And how about this for an extra bonus... Why not dig out some of the latest waste from Mont Cuet, which is probably full of recyclables anyway, and feed this into the Plant.

You know, this sort of Utopia is fine, but once again, let's look at the probable costs involved.

If you recall, early last year you were seeing for filthy incineration theory for nearby £90 million, that would not even do half of the above, and especially had no talk to your sewage problem.

Well, now here you have a solution that:-

• makes life for everybody on the Island easier as far as recycling is concerned
• Automatically sorts and sterilises far more recyclables with no human intervention.
• generates green electricity for large parts of the whole island
• removes the whole Island's sewage problem
• produces no toxic waste to be land filled
• produces no puthering smoke pollution that would be seen all nearby the island
• actually start to sacrifice the article of Mount Cuet landfill.

And what is the cost? Nothing. In return for a 25 year covenant of the Island to supply a minimum amount of waste and to agree to buy the electricity at contentious rates, Green Homes Global will supply this Utopian solution!

Well, what are you waiting for? Speak to your local councilor, and ask him or her when they are going to go ahead...

Who Else Wants To Rise Above Their Rubbish Issues?