Ministers from Jersey and Guernsey will meet next month and the possibility of Guernsey paying the Transport Department to accept shipped waste is likely to be high on the agenda.
Transport Minister Guy de Faye said that the plant would be built for over-capacity in the first few years of operation so that it would still be able to accommodate the levels of waste in a few decades.
He said that rather than waste the excess capacity, it would make sense to sell it to Guernsey to accommodate their waste problems, and cover some of the costs of the plant.
‘We have a window of opportunity of roughly six years at the early end of a new plant’s operation and we have suggested to Guernsey that one of the things they might look at is whether we could handle their waste for them,’ said Deputy de Faye.
He added the decision to site the plant at La Collette made the possibility of taking rubbish shipped over from Guernsey feasible.
