Waste needs assessments

The waste needs assessments provide an understanding of the waste that requires management in Cheshire East, assess the existing facilities that are available to manage this waste and consider the need for additional facilities to manage the forecast requirements. These studies will inform and support the preparation of planning policies for waste.

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Waste Needs Assessment 2023

This report presents the finding of a refresh of the WNA undertaken in 2019 with updated evidence for the main waste streams. This involves quantifying and characterising the principal waste streams arising in Cheshire East and producing forecasts/estimates of the amount of waste that needs to be managed for the plan period. It includes a main overview report and 6 supporting reports, looking at the different waste streams.

• Waste needs assessment overview report 2023 (PDF, 1.9MB)
• Local authority collected waste (PDF, 1.4MB)
• Commercial & industrial waste (PDF, 2.4MB)
• Construction, demolition and excavation waste (PDF, 2.8MB)
• Hazardous waste (PDF, 1.6MB)
• Waste water, agriculture and low level radio active waste (PDF, 1.2MB)
• Waste flows (PDF, 1.2MB)

Waste Needs Assessment Refresh 2019

The purpose of the  WNA  Refresh was to consider whether the findings of the 2017 assessment (below) had changed as a result of the publication of updated evidence for the main waste streams. It includes a main report and 5 supporting reports, looking at the different waste streams.

• Cheshire East Waste Needs Assessment Refresh 2019 (PDF, 1.3MB)
• Local authority collected waste refresh (PDF, 1.2MB)
• Commercial and industrial waste refresh (PDF, 1.1MB)
• Construction, demolition and excavation waste refresh (PDF, 1.1MB)
• Hazardous waste refresh (PDF, 1.2MB)
• Waste attribution for construction, demolition & excavation and commercial & industrial waste refresh (PDF, 1.3MB)

Waste Needs Assessment 2017

The  WNA 2017 consists of the main report and 6 supporting reports, looking at each waste stream.

• Cheshire East Waste Needs Assessment 2017 (PDF, 1.4MB)
• Local authority collected waste (PDF, 1.4MB)
• Commercial and industrial waste (PDF, 1.3MB)
• Construction, demolition and excavation waste (PDF, 1.1MB)
• Hazardous waste (PDF, 1.0MB)
• Scoping report for other waste (PDF, 1.3MB)
• Waste attribution for construction, demolition & excavation and commercial & industrial waste (PDF,1.4MB)

The main report was updated on 01 May 2018 to correct a typographical error for the tonnage shown for the CDEW  ‘Organic waste treatment inc Composting’ in Table 10. The value has been amended from 6,293 to 6,860 tonnes reflecting the correct value shown in source Table 17 of Report (3) on CDEW and aligns with the value already displayed in Table 13 of this report. Therefore the change has no effect on the capacity gap findings presented. No other changes have been made to the document.

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