Representatives from four providers, from billion pound multi-national operations to small emerging companies, waste consultants and advisers, first addressed the Scrutiny Panel into Waste and Management before making public presentations to a 50-strong audience at the Société Jersiaise.

Two weeks after Scrutiny published an interim report criticising Environment and Public Services for not giving serious attention to alternative technology and recycling in the £83.4 million waste strategy, the UK and French experts added to the mounting pile of information gathered over the past six months.

Of the shortlisted contenders to build the £80 million replacement for Bellozanne, only two are alternative technologies.

Scrutiny chairman Deputy Phil Rondel said: ‘We found it extremely useful to hear four different views and it was very useful to put those views in the public domain.’ Senators Jean Le Maistre and Ted Vibert and Deputies Rob Duhamel, Bob Hill and Gerard Baudains made up the panel.