The current plant in Bellozanne, which is used to destroy hazardous biological waste from the Hospital and Island medical practices, is in urgent need of replacement and is also situated on the proposed site of the new sewage treatment works.
About £1.4 million has already been allocated to fund the new specialist incinerator, due be built at La Collette, but the rest of the money remains outstanding.
The Island needs a separate facility for destroying medical waste, as it poses an infection and health risk and must be burnt at 1,100°C, rather than the maximum 850°C of the energy-from-waste plant.
Deputy Noel said: ‘The old incinerator is smack in the middle of the new sewage works and way past the end of its useful life.
‘The original plan was for clinical waste to go to a refrigerated holding facility before being shipped out to the UK. We allocated £1.4 million for that, so that money will be going towards the new plant.’
He added: ‘We were originally hoping not to have to replace the old plant and instead receive dispensation from the UK government to export it to the UK but that did not happen.’
