laste plans off the rails
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I by Mike Gerber
mbitious plans to switch the ransport of almost threeuarters of a county's waste o rail are set to be knocked if track.
Cornwall County Council's taste disposal company, CES, loped to centre its new wergy-from-waste Incineraor around the rail network his would cut down the need or truck journeys to the inclnnator which CES intends to wild in the middle of Cornwall.
But, ironically, the reellents of the towns where the iew road-to-rail waste .ransfer stations would be ecated have raised fears rbout the build-up of refuse :rucks travelling through :heir streets.
On paper, the CES's bold rian is feasible. Rail consultants WS Atkins found that T4% of the county's waste, mounting to 110,000 tonnes a year, could be delivered to the plant by rail. The project would require changes in household collection methods, minor rail
infrastructural improvements, and the provision of transfer stations where the waste would be bulked and put onto rail wagons.
However, following public consultation, Mike Brown, CES's technical director; has conceded: The 74% of waste we hoped to get on rail is not likely to be achieved with popular consent."
He explained: "The response from Falmouth has been very negative, the same is true to some extent about Liskeard, and also, to a lesser extent, about Truro. So In Falmouth It probably won't happen, In Uskeard It possibly might not happen, and in Truro it might not."
The response had been far more positive, he said, in Penzance, where the A30 primary road coincided with the rail network.