In the Oxford Times today Reg Little write of demands from district councils in the county to Build Compost Plant

"Oxfordshire could build itself a giant modern 'in vessel' composter similar to this one in Somerset
A food recycling centre is being proposed to help Oxfordshire deal with its mounting waste crisis.

"District councils say weekly household collections of food and kitchen waste could help usher in a new era of recycling in the county.

"They are pressing Oxfordshire County Council to invest £1m to build a modern 'in vessel' recycling plant which could turn waste food into compost. Such plants are already in use in Somerset, Cambridgeshire, Devon and Dorset."

Actually, Oxfordshire already has a decent sized similar thing and has had for fourteen or more years. A farm I lived on near Cassington built one to recycle food processing waste - taking orange skins from the old orange juice plant at Kidlington and eggs and things from other commercial suppliers around the county.

I know, I worked on it briefly in a (nearly) former life in order to pay the rent at the farm cottage. And I suggested this idea before I left the council in 2002 as a way to get rid of the city's organic waste collections. At the time I did a little research and I think found out that there were legal issues with it - that there was some prohibition on collecting peoples' kitchen waste and turning it into compost because you never could be sure quite what was in it. Presumably such problems have been overcome now somehow and the idea is "de rigeur".

Or perhaps they should just have elected such a visionary as myself executive mayor while they had the chance...:)