TThe EfW Policy preparation was an achievement in itself given the prior opposition to it in the past. Consequently, the EfW Policy still has a way to go. ASBG finds it in contradiction to the WAR Act's waste hierarchy due to the gold plating of the environmental conditions, beyond world's best practice and the requirement for resource recovery to be undertaken upstream before being acceptable in the EfW facility. This is particularly concerning as landfills, EfW's main competitor, has no such conditions nor gold plating yet sits lower in the waste hierarchy.