Reports

There have been a number of BAN Waste reports over the past few years, most of them coming as a result of an intense period of activity surrounding the work of the Select Committee that ran in 2003.

At the end of the first phase ‘Our World. Our Waste. Our Choice’ was published in January 2002. For the full version click here.

Then there were assessments of health, environment, employment and other economic impacts of the different options offered. There were also a series of community events designed to increase public involvement. For a report on this community consultation click here , or for a summary here .

The Second interim Report 'A Wealth of Waste' followed in early 2003, outlining the waste strategy needed to ensure that Newcastle has a policy of resource management rather than waste disposal and highlighting the differences between such a strategy and the one being pursued by Newcastle City Council at the time. For the full report click here.

Finally, at the end of 2003 and following two more sittings of the Select Committee, ‘Too Good to Waste’ was published, outlining a recommended waste strategy and the reasons for choosing it. To view the full report click here, and to view a summary click here.
In addition there have been a number of other reports at various times.

‘Select Committee on Waste Options Evaluation Report’

As the name suggests this report, completed in 2004, evaluates how successful the select committee process was in achieving it’s objective in democratising the consultation process leading to the recommendation of a waste strategy for Newcastle. Click here to view a copy.

‘Byker, Ouseburn and Battlefield Recycling Project. Phase 1’

This is the report that came out in the Summer of 2005 at the end of the first phase of the ‘BOB’ project. This first phase was looking into the feasibility of establishing some form of recycling facility on the low rise housing estates in the area. Click here to see report.

There are various reports that came out following the allotment ash fiasco. The main one is the report commissioned from Newcastle University into the toxicity levels of the ash, entitled:
‘REPORT ON THE ANALYSIS OF PCCD/PCDF AND HEAVY METALS IN FOOTPATHS AND SOIL SAMPLES RELATED TO THE BYKER INCINERATOR’.  Click on the link to view it.

Newcastle University also carried out a second survey of the vegetables on the affected allotment sites and you can view that report by clicking here.

BAN Waste commissioned its own response to the University reports and that can be viewed here.

In June 2006, the Journal 'Local Environment' published an article by Lyn Dodds and Bill Hopwood of the Sustainable Cities Research Institute at Northumbria University entitled "BAN Waste, Environmental Justice and Citizen Participation in Policy Setting". The article investigates the ways in which BAN Waste's campaign against the expansion of the incinerator at Byker developed new strategies to reach the population of socially deprived areas of the city to overcome some of the barriers to environmental justice. See the article here.