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56 Mayor of London Making waste work in London The Mayor’s Draft Business Waste Management Strategy Reclamation Facilities (MRFs). In many cases materials being recovered are of poor quality and are unsuitable for domestic markets 120 . 3.91 WRAP has commissioned a project that aims to review the quality of MRF technologies and processes currently employed in the UK 121 . This will provide the industry with the knowledge required to upgrade MRFs so that materials collected can be reprocessed in the UK by meeting market requirements for higher-quality materials. 3.92 For London to reap the rewards offered by the secondary materials economy, strategic coordination between expanded sources of supply and new reprocessing is required. In 2003, the Mayor's Municipal Waste Management Strategy 122 proposed to investigate the benefits of Londonwide consortia for recycled materials (Proposal 76). 3.93 The development of a consortium or a ‘trading hub’ to coordinate the sale of all London’s recycled materials would enable London to amass materials of a sufficient volume to make the development of domestic reprocessing infrastructure within London and in partnership with surrounding regions viable 123 . It would also provide stability to the marketplace by enabling the development of secure and long-term contracts that would be able to serve larger, international markets, while seeking the best price for London’s recycled material. It may also enable the movement of recycled materials to be coordinated, which would reduce the associated transport impacts of recycling. 3.94 A trading hub could work with waste collectors from the public, private and third sectors and reprocessors and would be expected to become financially self-sufficient. The GLA and LDA have held discussions about joint working with neighbouring regions through the inter-regional forum to initiate the development of partnerships. Proposal 6 The Mayor will investigate and, if appropriate, implement an appropriate vehicle to act as a trading hub for recycled materials across London. 21st century energy 3.95 Waste that cannot be recycled is still a valuable resource and its energy can be recovered using advanced waste technologies such as anaerobic digestion, pyrolysis and gasification. This energy will be either partially or entirely renewable, depending upon the feedstock. The Stern review 124 indicated that the technical potential to produce energy from residual waste could be substantial, potentially accounting for as much as 17 per cent of the UK’s electricity consumption by 2020 125 .
Making waste work in London The Mayor’s Draft Business Waste Management Strategy Mayor of London 57 3.96 The Mayor is taking a leading role in developing advanced waste technologies. The Panel Report produced as a result of the Examination in Public of the Early Alterations to the London Plan, asserted that the ‘Mayor has taken a bold but necessary step in the right direction by stating a preference for [advanced waste] technologies’ 126 . 3.97 The London Climate Change Agency has been established to deliver decentralised energy and renewable fuels, including from waste. The agency will develop facilities, for example through its contract with London Remade, such as anaerobic digestion, gasification and pyrolosis, which offer the possibility of producing renewable fuels including hydrogen. This in turn can be used to run London’s buses and other vehicles, completing a cycle that links energy with water, waste and transport. The London Hydrogen Partnership reported 127 that sufficient hydrogen could be produced from gasification, pyrolysis and anaerobic digestion of London’s waste, to fuel 13,000 buses (compared to the present fleet size of over 8,000). Case study 8 - A solution for our waste and energy crisis The London Thames Gateway Development Corporation approved planning permission in September 2006 of a new technology waste treatment facility in Rainham. Proposed by Australian-owned Novera Energy, the £25 million facility will use a gasification process to generate electricity from secondary recovered fuel. Shanks East London are negotiating an agreement to supply secondary recovered fuel to Novera from their Mechanical Biological Treatment facility next door at Frog Island. The gasification facility will process about 13 tonnes of refusederived fuel every hour – about 90,000 tonnes each year – generating about 10MW of energy, which may be used by the nearby Ford Motor Company factory at Dagenham. Source: Mayor of London Planning Development Unit Case study 9 - Delivering the Climate Change Action Plan The London Climate Change Agency is providing funding and support to London Remade to develop four new recycling and reprocessing facilities in London to turn waste into renewable energy. The £225,000 project will help deliver the aims of the Mayor's Climate Change Action Plan to reduce London's carbon footprint. If all of London's waste that cannot be recycled and currently goes to landfill were used to generate energy, it could generate enough electricity for up to two million homes and heat for up to 625,000 homes.
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