ABSTRACT
This chapter starts with a restatement of the key proposals for change. The impact of these changes is shown graphically, if the organic recovery changes were made with existing levels of recycling and if the changes to recycling were also made. The impact these changes would have on EfW recovery are then also shown graphically. In order to inject a dose of realism, these impacts are then restated at three possible levels of success: 100%, 95% and 90%. The 90% success rate figures are put forward as the basis for revised national targets. In order to avoid spurious accuracy, the targets are rounded to a 40% recycling rate; a 30% organic recovery rate; an EfW recovery rate of 25%; and a landfill rate of 5%. Estimates of the infrastructure capacity required to achieve these levels of success is presented, prior to a discussion of how this infrastructure could be funded. Proposed funding options include: repurposing some of the proceeds from the Landfill Tax; and introducing and hypothecating an Incineration Tax. It is suggested that the previously unimaginable speed and success of the developments achieved during the Coronavirus epidemic (Nightingale Hospital construction, ventilator design and manufacture and vaccine development fast-tracking), show what can be done in a very short time if there is a will and leadership.
