ISLANDERS must almost double the amount of waste they recycle if Jersey is to meet tough new targets for a proposed replacement for the Bellozanne incinerator, it has been revealed.
To do so, doorstep collections must expand across Jersey, the number of recycling banks must increase and Islanders as a whole will have to adopt a massive change in attitude towards waste.
The recycling targets, revealed at a briefing yesterday, form part of Transport and Technical Services’ plans to build a £106 million energy-from-waste plant south of the power station at La Collette. If approved, the station would produce seven per cent of the Island’s electricity.
The plant, which will handle about 105,000 tons of waste per year, is smaller than the 126,000-ton development originally planned.
If Jersey fails to meet a 36 per cent recycling rate by 2018, outlined by Transport Minister Guy de Faye last month, the Island will be left with more waste than it can burn at the proposed site. William Gardiner, director of the waste strategy project (pictured), said: ‘We will have to recycle double what we do now.’
