With mandatory removal targets set to increase, removal and disposal activities will cost the industry billions and would leave a major carbon footprint.
The further cuts are needed because of changes in the council tax benefit scheme and increases in the cost of waste disposal and transport, it is claimed.
The opposite is true: Reprocessing is the worst possible alternative to deep geological disposal because it greatly increases the cost, as well as the dangers, of waste management.
"The results of the cost reduction and asset disposal plans have exceeded our targets, " said chief executive Philippe Varin, claiming that, "the foundations for our rebound have been laid".
Given the reductions in subsidies to localities he is proposing in his next budget, he wants to be sure that local authorities have foolproof cost-cutting mechanisms at their disposal.
Dressing is expensive because of the process time involved (up to two or three weeks) and the cost of complying with ever-tightening environmental regulations for such things as chemical disposal.