What is the relationship between the Joint Strategic Waste DPD and the Councils’ Municipal Waste Management Strategies?
Barnsley, Doncaster and Rotherham have separately prepared Municipal Waste Management Strategies. These strategies make choices about the technologies used to treat waste, focussing on municipal waste i.e. waste collected from your home and any other types of waste collected by waste collection authorities. The Joint Strategic Waste DPD is not about making technological choices. Instead it will provide the sites which will enable the delivery of the Municipal Waste Management Strategies. Municipal Waste Management Strategies therefore address the ‘how’ while the Joint Strategic Waste DPD addresses the ‘where’. By not prescribing specific waste management technologies for different sites, the Joint Strategic Waste DPD should help to encourage innovation and provide more flexibility for the waste management industry to come forward with proposals for facilities incorporating any technology as appropriate, including any new technologies that may be developed in the future. 7. What are was
