Combined Executive Agenda 120410.pdf - North Ayrshire Council

ii. Pre-treatment of Street Sweepings
Street sweepings, in the main, arise from the mechanical
sweeping of hard surfaced public paths and roads and include
large quantities of detritus and in the autumn leaf-fall. It is
possible to pre-treat the de-watered material for recycling or reuse
as an aggregate material or in the case of leaf-fall
composting.
It is proposed that a pilot scheme be undertaken to evaluate the
benefits of pre-treating street sweepings.
6.6.6 Increase the range of recycling containers at HWRC’s
Provide containers to enable separation for recycling of additional
materials identified through waste composition analysis and developing
legislation e.g. plasterboard
6.7 Proposal – Develop facilities and long-term options to dispose/
treat Residual Waste.
6.7.1 Continued Development of Shewalton Landfill site
Subject to the continued construction of new cells for disposing of
residual waste the site is projected to have capacity to deal with the
Council’s waste until 2016/17. It will be necessary to complete the
following works:-
� Construction of facilities to enable further separation of wastes prior
to disposal
� Capping of Cell 4
� Construction and subsequent capping of Cell 5
� Extension of landfill gas management and energy recovery system
� Continued development of leachate management systems
6.7.2 Develop Outline Business Case for the long-term treatment of
Residual Waste
In order to meet the requirement of the Zero Waste Plan to cease the
disposal of Biodegradable Waste to landfill by 31 st December 2020 it
will be necessary for the Council to procure facilities to treat residual
waste. At this time it is anticipated that the Council will have at least
35,000 tonnes of waste requiring treatment although there are a
number of factors, as set out at 4.2, can influence this figure.
As a member of the Ayrshire Waste partnership, consisting of the three
constituent Ayrshire Councils, an Outline Business case for the
treatment of residual waste is currently being developed for
consideration. The outcome of the business case will determine the
long-term approach of the Council to the management of residual
waste upon closure of the Shewalton landfill site.
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