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Oxfordshire Waste Charter

• Aspire to a ‘Zero Waste’ strategy.
• Set high recycling and composting rates: 50 per cent by 2010 and 75 per cent by 2015.
• Write a flexible strategy, to allow progressive improvements in waste reduction, re-use, recycling and composting.
• Rule out incineration, including incineration at an ‘energy from waste’ plant.
• Consider the use of local, small-scale mechanical-biological treatment (MBT)* for residual waste, with the residuals from this process going to landfill and not for Refuse Derived Fuel.
• Ensure the County waste strategy genuinely involves, and is informed by, all key stakeholders

Oxford Friends of the Earth Waste Campaign

* Mechanical Biological Treatment (MBT) is a pre-treatment for mixed waste prior to disposal in landfill or incineration as Refuse Derived Fuel in a mass-burn incinerator, ‘energy from waste’ plant or at a power station, etc.