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68 Mayor of London Making waste work in London The Mayor’s Draft Business Waste Management Strategy 3.134 Changing the fuels used for waste collection vehicles is another opportunity to make waste management transport more sustainable. Biodegradable wastes can provide a renewable source of methane, which can be combined with natural gas to create a transport fuel. Greenwich Council is investigating the option to produce methane from its proposed anaerobic digestion facility to use as a transport fuel in its vehicle fleet and run its school buses. 3.135 Bio-diesel can be produced from waste oils and other organic wastes. An LDA study 153 shows that bio-diesel produced from used cooking oil is an environmentally-benign alternative to traditional diesel, emitting 50 per cent less carbon monoxide and 78 per cent less carbon dioxide than fossil-based diesel 154 . When produced to the appropriate standards, bio-diesel can be introduced to existing diesel engines without any need for engine modification. Establishing bio-diesel production from used cooking oil helps to absorb a waste material that is under increasingly strict controls and which can be problematic when incorrectly disposed of causing, for example, blocked drains. 3.136 London’s first bio-diesel refinery opened in Edmonton, north London in March 2007 155 . Pure Fuels has the capacity to produce 3.5 million litres of bio-diesel each year from used cooking oil collected from businesses across London. Bio-diesel currently sold at public filling stations contains only a maximum of five per cent bio-diesel, the other 95 per cent being regular, mineral diesel. Increasing the percentage of bio-diesel is not possible without invalidating vehicle warranty, a serious limitation to substantial market growth. 3.137 The Mayor’s Air Quality Strategy supports taking waste and recycled materials off the road and utilising the rail and water networks, which emit fewer air pollutants than road travel 156 . In 2003, the transportation of 650,000 tonnes (15 per cent) of municipal waste by river saved some 100,000 lorry movements on London’s roads 157 , reducing congestion and the negative environmental impacts associated with road haulage. Alternative options, such as collection vehicles that can switch between road and water transport and underground vacuum waste collection systems, are being investigated. 3.138 The majority of non-road waste movements in London are to transport waste to landfill. As London diverts material from landfill, it will be essential that wharves and rail-heads used for waste are retained for moving recycled materials.
Making waste work in London The Mayor’s Draft Business Waste Management Strategy Mayor of London 69 Case study 16 - New recycling facility maximises use of rail and river for transportation Powerday was awarded £562,400 through the London Development Agency’s Economic Development Infrastructure Building (EDIB) project, via the London Recycling Fund, to develop a new Materials Recycling Facility at Old Oak Sidings in the London borough of Hammersmith and Fulham. The facility comprises a waste management facility and construction materials depot with an annual total capacity of 1.6 million tonnes. The scheme proposes a new wharf on the Grand Union Canal to allow the transfer of materials to barges for transportation to and from other canal-based sites and reuse of existing railway sidings for the transfer of waste and materials by rail. British Waterways supports the application stating that it will take advantage of 26 miles of lock-free canal and would support up to 800,000 tonnes of material on the canal. The principle of a waste management facility in this location is welcome in strategic planning terms, as it will provide much needed extra waste management capacity. The facility is due to open in June 2007. Source: Greater London Authority Planning Decisions Unit Report PDU/0496/01, 2004 Proposal 13 Transport for London, through its London Freight Plan, will promote the early adoption of new engine technologies and waste-derived fuels that minimise the impact of waste transport on climate change. Proposal 14 London’s businesses, particularly those in light industrial estates, should examine the feasibility of: ■ generating energy on-site from their residual waste, particularly organic kitchen waste, through the use of advanced waste technologies ■ using waste-derived transport fuels in their vehicle fleets.
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