Charlton Lane Recycling

For all their bluster Spelthorne’s Liberal Democrats have been rather timid in the Council chamber at County Hall in Kingston since they were elected last June.
And this week we think they shot themselves in the foot with a lukewarm response to the Conservatives’ ingenious plan to upgrade the Charlton Lane Recycling Centre, with a really cost effective way of dealing with all our waste.
The UK’s first Eco Park will include a special plant to heat all residual waste (that which cannot be recycled) in a totally sealed environment. In addition all food waste -- to be collected separately -- will be composted. The amount of natural gas produced by both processes will be enough to power ten thousand homes -- that's equivalent to a quarter of the houses in Spelthorne.
Not only will this proposal almost eliminate the need to bury waste in the ground, but it'll cost less than any alternative, there’ll be a reduction in traffic at the site, and there’ll be a profit from selling the green energy to the national grid.