Greater Manchester Waste Disposal Authority

{{Short description|Former waste disposal authority for Greater Manchester}}

{{Infobox organization

| name = Greater Manchester Waste Disposal Authority

| map = Greater Manchester UK locator map 2010.svg

| map_alt = Greater Manchester within England

| map_caption = Greater Manchester within England

| abbreviation = GMWDA

| merged = Greater Manchester Combined Authority

| established = {{start date and age|1986}}

| dissolved = {{end date and age|2018|04|01|df=yes}}

| type = Waste disposal authority

| purpose = Management and disposal of the municipal waste of Greater Manchester

| headquarters = Medtia Chambers, 5 Barn Street{{Cite web |url=http://www.gmwda.gov.uk/contact-us |title=Contact Us - Greater Manchester Waste Disposal Authority |access-date=19 December 2011 |archive-date=6 December 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111206010020/http://www.gmwda.gov.uk/contact-us |url-status=dead }}

| location_city = Oldham

| location_country = United Kingdom

| region_served = Greater Manchester (except Wigan)

| website = [http://www.gmwda.gov.uk/ www.gmwda.gov.uk]

}}

The Greater Manchester Waste Disposal Authority (GMWDA) was England's largest waste disposal authority, responsible for the management and disposal of municipal waste from Greater Manchester. It dealt with 1.1 million tonnes of waste produced each year, from approximately 1 million households and a population of over 2.27 million in the metropolitan districts of Bolton, Bury, Manchester, Oldham, Rochdale, Salford, Stockport, Tameside and Trafford — though part of Greater Manchester, the Metropolitan Borough of Wigan administers its own waste disposal operations, however they were represented on the authority for administration purposes. The waste came primarily from household waste collections and 20 household waste recycling centres (HWRCs) provided and serviced by the GMWDA. It handled around 4% of the nation's municipal waste.{{cite web| url = http://www.gmwda.gov.uk/about-us| url-status = dead| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20100926115615/http://www.gmwda.gov.uk/about-us| archive-date = 2010-09-26| title = About Us - Greater Manchester Waste Disposal Authority}}

History

The GMWDA was created under the Local Government Act 1985 to carry out the waste management functions and duties of the Greater Manchester County Council after its abolition in 1986. The authority membership was composed of councillors from across Greater Manchester.{{cite web |url=http://www.gmwda.gov.uk/about-us/gmwda-members-biographies |title=GMWDA Members (Biographies) - Greater Manchester Waste Disposal Authority |accessdate=2011-12-19 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20111006034239/http://www.gmwda.gov.uk/about-us/gmwda-members-biographies |archivedate=2011-10-06 }} Its headquarters were in Oldham. The GMWDA also operated the Recycle for Greater Manchester organisation, its initiatives and website.{{Cite web|url=http://www.recycleforgreatermanchester.com/about-us|title = Recycle for Greater Manchester | What we do}} Following the creation of the Greater Manchester Combined Authority in 2011, GMWDA was an integral part of a pilot local government strategy to demonstrate competence in tackling climate change, energy, water, green infrastructure, transport, waste and other issues affecting the Greater Manchester Statutory City Region.{{cite web |url=http://www.gmwda.gov.uk/our-partners/environment-commission |title=Environment Commission - Greater Manchester Waste Disposal Authority |accessdate=2011-12-19 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120415074018/http://www.gmwda.gov.uk/our-partners/environment-commission |archivedate=2012-04-15 }}{{cite web| url = http://www.agma.gov.uk/commissions1/environment_commission/index.html| url-status = dead| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20110112103728/http://www.agma.gov.uk/commissions1/environment_commission/index.html| archive-date = 2011-01-12| title = Environment Commission : Commissions : AGMA Policy and Research Unit}}

On 1 April 2018, the GMWDA was abolished and its functions and all property, rights and liabilities were transferred to the Greater Manchester Combined Authority.{{cite act |index=2017/612 |type=statutory instrument |date=26 April 2017 |article=9 |title=The Greater Manchester Combined Authority (Functions and Amendment) Order 2017 |url=https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2017/612/introduction/made}}

Strategy

The GMWDA aimed to deliver at least 50% recycling and 75% diversion from landfill through its contractual guarantee with Viridor Laing (Greater Manchester) Limited.{{cite web |url=http://www.gmwda.gov.uk/about-us/gmwda-vision |title=GMWDA Vision - Greater Manchester Waste Disposal Authority |accessdate=2011-12-19 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20111206002506/http://www.gmwda.gov.uk/about-us/gmwda-vision |archivedate=2011-12-06 }}

Greater Manchester Waste PFI contract

In April 2009, the GMWDA signed a 25-year private finance initiative (PFI) waste and recycling contract with Viridor Laing (Greater Manchester) Limited, a partnership between Viridor and John Laing. Since then, a network of 42 recycling and waste management facilities across 24 sites have been constructed. The construction cost was £640 million over five years.{{Cite web|url=http://www.laing.com/project_portfolio/24/117/greater-manchester-waste-management-pfi.html|title = John Laing Group PLC - Construction}}

The facilities include:

20 HWRCs
Materials recovery facility which sorts the kerbside recyclable materials (commingled) into different material types, from where they are sent for recycling
Existing transfer loading station
Two existing green waste shredding facilities
Five mechanical biological treatment (MBT) facilities, four with anaerobic digestion which process organic material to produce gases which generate renewable power, and compost-like material
Four in-vessel composting facilities which treat garden and food waste to produce compost
Existing thermal recovery facility in Bolton which treats residual waste which cannot be recycled
Four public education centres (two existing and two new) provide educational resources for school, community and other interested groups.

Residual waste that cannot be recycled, instead of being sent to landfill, was processed into solid recovered fuel (SRF), through the MBT process, for use by chemical producer Ineos Chlor for energy production at its plant at Runcorn. The 275,000 tonnes of fuel fed to the combined heat and power (CHP) plant produced electricity and steam, replacing energy generated from non-renewable sources.{{cite web |url=http://www.gmwda.gov.uk/recycling-and-waste-management-contract |title=Recycling and Waste Management Contract - Greater Manchester Waste Disposal Authority |accessdate=2014-08-21 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20141112141926/http://www.gmwda.gov.uk/recycling-and-waste-management-contract |archivedate=2014-11-12 }}

References

External links

[http://www.gmwda.gov.uk/ www.gmwda.gov.uk]
[http://www.recycleforgreatermanchester.com/ www.recycleforgreatermanchester.com]
[https://www.zero-waste.co.uk Waste Management Manchester] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200513171835/https://www.zero-waste.co.uk/ |date=13 May 2020 }}

Category:Waste organizations

Category:Organisations based in Oldham

Category:Waste disposal authorities

Category:Environment of Greater Manchester