Calvert Waste Plant Consultation

The Calvert landfill site lies just ouside the parish and ward boundary, and the current discussions about the future of the site are of great concern.
The latest Waste Strategy consultation document produced by Bucks County Council gives 2 alternative proposals, both of which involve the building of a new waste treatment facility at
Calvert. The most likely type of facility is a waste incinerator which would also generate electricity which could be channelled into the National Grid.
The incinerator would be environmentally preferable to the current landfill site, as it would reduce the amount of harmful methane produced, which is one of the worst 'greenhouse gases'.
Also the ash produced from the incinerator could be used for road construction material and
housing blocks. It is good to think of Calvert producing bricks again.
The 2 proposals are:

- One site at Calvert for North Bucks and one at Wapsey's Wood (near Beaconsfield) for South Bucks, both handling municipal and commercial waste

- Two sites as above, but one dedicated to municipal waste only, and the other dedicated to
commercial waste.

The first option (handling both types of waste) would obviously reduce the number of miles required to carry the waste to the two sites.

There is a public meeting to discuss the proposals at Calvert Green Community Hall, Cotswold Way, Calvert on Thursday 17th April at 7.15 pm.

At the public consultation meeting in Aylesbury last Tuesday, the issue of the need for a new link road from Calvert to the A41 to handle the additional vehicles was raised, and the preferred option is for a new road to run adjacent to the existing railway line which already takes 'bin liner'
waste trains to Calvert.