Edmonton Compost plant to close - what now for our garden and food waste?

News reaches me from Sustainable Haringey that the compost plant at the Eco Park will be closing, so that new bigger incinerator can be built and asks where will our garden and food waste will go when this happens?

Meanwhile a Green Party study reported in the Guardian discovered that recycling rates have stalled and more and more of our waste is being incinerated. 

Cuts to local authority budgets are blamed for recycling stagnating, not incineration growth.

“The trend is there isn’t enough policy support for recycling, so recycling rates have slowed down.”, comments Jacob Hayler, executive director at waste trade association the ESA.

Mind you, manufacturers aren't helping when only a third of packaging can be recycled according to the LGA. This includes those black trays that ready meals come in which are only dyed that colour to make the food look better but are rejected at the plant because they don't show up on the scanner (don't buy black packaging folks!).

Incineration is seen as the answer to this but the Greens argue that this is bad for climate change and encourages people not to recycle. Budget cuts, poor response from manufacturers and lack of national policy which is increasingly relying on incineration for waste disposal are leading to an absolute mess.

And now one little difference we can make by keeping food waste that can't be home-composted out of the bins is going to be harder. I wonder if a charge for food waste collection will be next or if it will be phased out altogether?

Perhaps a passing councillor reading this could find out?!