Incinerators
November 24th, 2008My connection with incinerators
In 2005 I found out that Warwickshire County Council wanted to build a large waste incinerator and its likely location was in Nuneaton. Over the next year I learned a lot about incinerators and killed off WCC’s plans. In the process I have become a bit of a waste expert and now help groups around England and Wales fight plans for waste incinerators.
The much of this campaigning involves either local Friends of the earth groups or single-issue groups. We now have a newly formed “UK without incineration” (www.ukwin.org.uk) to network between such campaigns. In 2008 I was awarded an “Earth mover” award by Friends of the Earth in recognition of the help that I provide to uk-win and groups around the country.
I am currently fighting plans for waste burners in
Staffordshire (Four Ashes)
Leicestershire (maybe at Barton)
Hull (salt end)
I am also providing advice to groups in
Shropshire (2 burners!), Gloucestershire, Nottinghamshire, Worcestershire, Bedfordshire, Cardiff and more.
