Reopening of Public Consultation on Proposed Section 60 Policy Direction on a proposed cap to incineration capacity as a proportion of municipal waste

In summer 2009, the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government conducted a public consultation on an Environmental Report, prepared by environmental consultants according to Strategic Environmental Assessment requirements, to inform the policy making process for waste management in respect of a proposed Section 60 policy direction to achieve the following objectives

to ensure that incineration capacity does not reach a level such that waste is drawn to incineration which could have been dealt with by prevention, reuse, recycling, composting/anaerobic digestion of source segregated biowaste, MBT or other methods higher up the waste hierarchy;
to ensure that the waste hierarchy is complied with in that local authorities, as waste management authorities, do not direct holders of waste to deliver it to lower elements in the waste hierarchy, thereby preventing them acting in support of waste management options at the bottom of the hierarchy;
to ensure that the waste hierarchy is complied with in that local authorities, as waste management authorities, could direct holders of waste to deliver it to higher elements in the waste hierarchy, thereby encouraging them to act in support of waste management options at the top of the hierarchy;
to minimise the air pollution arising from trucks accessing waste facilities in built-up areas;
to ensure appropriate monitoring of air pollution in the vicinity of major waste facilities;
to reduce air soil and water pollution from incineration and comply with the Stockholm Convention.

Section 60 Policy Direction Capping Incineration of Municipal Waste and Other Matters - Consultation Document (doc, 20,579kb

Source: Department of the Environment, Heritage and Local Government

Date published: Monday, July 19 2010

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