Email to: NLWA
From: A member of the public
"Please be kind enough to answer a query, about your contract for the burning of incinerator fuel, produced under the NLWA's proposed new arrangements.
I draw your attention to one particular industry process (the actual provider of this process is unimportant):
"A blending process takes out impurities and takes out or leaves in/adds more plastic to meet the specific needs of combustion processes, such as co-firing in power station boilers, fluidised bed boilers, gasification, pyrolysis, and cement kilns."
The question to you is therefore: Does your proposed NLWA contract prohibit "blending" of the incinerator fuel that you provide, which might:
"add more plastic"or paper, or other material (from other sources) and as described in the example above?
If "added plastic" were not to be banned under your contract, would the obvious lack of recycling of that plastic be reflected in recycling rates, reported to the public by the NLWA, regarding its waste streams?
In other words, might a situation arise where the NLWA was claiming higher and higher plastic and paper recycling rates, but where your contractor was merely adding OTHER plastic or paper back into the waste stream, after you have handed it over?
Thank you for your assistance."
(The reply is awaited.)
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