Gradually, the bird makes its nest! Initially the distrust towards the construction project at 2 steps from the Belgian border ' a paper mill waste incinerator (and not garbage as is known of course all those who follow the issue) was triggered by opacity who reigned around this ambitious industrial establishment. Then the doubts were reinforced when experts had explained that such a facility would generate an inevitable pollution , in the immediate vicinity but not only. Presentation in December of Everhardus Jaarsma, the proponent by Effect - The environmental letter, did that increase . Have they fallen since? Absolutely not, because in the article that we allow to reproduce below, and which was published yesterday on the website of Inter - Environnement Wallonie , a federation of over 150 associations whose common fighting for sustainable development and fight against environmental damage, it is this time the fuel APIC, made from paper mill waste to be burned in the incinerator, which subject to serious questions:
Givet: incinerator (Un) hidden!
If you live south of Namur, you've probably heard of a plant project generating electricity and heat "green", from biomass, which should locate in our French neighbors near Givet. This project has already been much ink, and a public inquiry is also expected (soon?) Doische and Hastings, two adjacent municipalities confronted with transboundary impacts and therefore informed by public inquiry of the French project.
Amid incomplete information, the controversy swells, and the article published recently in the journal Impact (No. 332, 27/12/2010), involving the aspect of "green" project and the credibility of its designer, do not probably calm the spirits. It must be said that there is currently very little information about the "raw material" to be burned to produce energy, and what you can find in the press puzzling and thoughtful: Will you build a cogeneration plant fueled by biomass or waste incinerator?
APIC (the trade name of fuel that would be used) is supposed to be a new fuel composed of biomass. What is biomass? Usable organic matter from another energy source. APIC, we learn by searching news articles, would consist of waste paper from France and other European countries including Belgium, compacted briquettes before being burned. If the paper fibers are plant and therefore from biomass, we must not forget that paper additives (mineral fillers, glues ...) are not. The term biomass is thus concerned that a percentage of this "green fuel". If press coverage at certain times of 95% waste paper, there is no reliable information about it today. What we discovered was not reassuring. Indeed, the project coordinator, Patrick Loubet, has posted information via a web forum (now mysteriously inaccessible ... unless hidden). He says the waste: "mechanically separated rejects from pulping of waste paper and cardboard," or the code waste 03/03/2007, which ends in the same PST today. In the Walloon legislation, This code is known as "B" (biodegradable and therefore soon forbidden to landfill). Let
: grinding of waste paper and cardboard contains impurities (metals, plastics, adhesives, inks) that are sorted mechanically. The goal is to lose less fiber paper, this sort is relatively pushed more than the refusal will find one that is less "rewarding" (waste landfill prohibited, taxed heavily ...). It is hard to see how the release of the screening process contain a lot of paper ... Therefore, the term "biomass" would fall under theft! Or companies that provide this sort waste very little of their waste letting large quantities of paper! One of two things: either the incinerator (let's call it ...) burns a residue low fiber paper, in which case you can not talk but biomass incineration of plastics and other materials variety, or it burns waste paper sorting plant from which recovery processes are inefficient fiber. But in this case, it would be much wiser for both industry and the environment to try to reduce the fraction of fibers in this sort of refusal, and thus increase the amount of recycled paper actually rather that offer them an avenue to incineration. Remember also, that the Directive requires waste UE/2008/98 use energy recovery if the waste could be recycled as material.
This vagueness about the APIC is illustrative of the entire record, where information is fragmented, very few, sometimes conflicting, which does not bode well if this project was to be brought to fruition.
Federation Inter Environnement Wallonie will therefore carefully the public inquiry, and it also remains in contact with his French counterpart for more information.
Amid incomplete information, the controversy swells, and the article published recently in the journal Impact (No. 332, 27/12/2010), involving the aspect of "green" project and the credibility of its designer, do not probably calm the spirits. It must be said that there is currently very little information about the "raw material" to be burned to produce energy, and what you can find in the press puzzling and thoughtful: Will you build a cogeneration plant fueled by biomass or waste incinerator?
APIC (the trade name of fuel that would be used) is supposed to be a new fuel composed of biomass. What is biomass? Usable organic matter from another energy source. APIC, we learn by searching news articles, would consist of waste paper from France and other European countries including Belgium, compacted briquettes before being burned. If the paper fibers are plant and therefore from biomass, we must not forget that paper additives (mineral fillers, glues ...) are not. The term biomass is thus concerned that a percentage of this "green fuel". If press coverage at certain times of 95% waste paper, there is no reliable information about it today. What we discovered was not reassuring. Indeed, the project coordinator, Patrick Loubet, has posted information via a web forum (now mysteriously inaccessible ... unless hidden). He says the waste: "mechanically separated rejects from pulping of waste paper and cardboard," or the code waste 03/03/2007, which ends in the same PST today. In the Walloon legislation, This code is known as "B" (biodegradable and therefore soon forbidden to landfill). Let
: grinding of waste paper and cardboard contains impurities (metals, plastics, adhesives, inks) that are sorted mechanically. The goal is to lose less fiber paper, this sort is relatively pushed more than the refusal will find one that is less "rewarding" (waste landfill prohibited, taxed heavily ...). It is hard to see how the release of the screening process contain a lot of paper ... Therefore, the term "biomass" would fall under theft! Or companies that provide this sort waste very little of their waste letting large quantities of paper! One of two things: either the incinerator (let's call it ...) burns a residue low fiber paper, in which case you can not talk but biomass incineration of plastics and other materials variety, or it burns waste paper sorting plant from which recovery processes are inefficient fiber. But in this case, it would be much wiser for both industry and the environment to try to reduce the fraction of fibers in this sort of refusal, and thus increase the amount of recycled paper actually rather that offer them an avenue to incineration. Remember also, that the Directive requires waste UE/2008/98 use energy recovery if the waste could be recycled as material.
This vagueness about the APIC is illustrative of the entire record, where information is fragmented, very few, sometimes conflicting, which does not bode well if this project was to be brought to fruition.
Federation Inter Environnement Wallonie will therefore carefully the public inquiry, and it also remains in contact with his French counterpart for more information.
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