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United Kingdom Without Incineration Network
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HPA confirm plans for incineration health study
The Health Protection Agency have announced plans for a study on “whether there is a potential link between the emissions from MWIs and health outcomes, including: low birth weight, still births and infant deaths”. The HPA’s press release from the 24th of January 2012 stated that: A new study to further extend the evidence base [...]
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Clean Air for 2012?
The Manchester-based Breathe Clean Air Group is calling for greater protection of children’s health after a study links biomass incineration and respiratory problems. A report in the January 2012 edition of the Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology says that children living in more polluted areas have shown to have reduced lung growth compared to [...]
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LATS estimate indicate we’re still 3-4 years ahead of targets
Defra are not publishing the first quarter 2011/12 (April 2011 – June 2011) waste data until the start of February 2012, but the Environment Agency has produced a landfill allowance (LATS) estimate for each council based on Q1 data. http://www.wastedataflow.org/Documents/LATS/Qrt_1_2011-12-BMW_Forecast.pdf The document points to 6.68M tonnes of biodegradable waste content being landfilled against 10.89M of [...]
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For sale: failed incinerator
Controversial Failed Incinerator Up For Sale Neath Port Talbot Council has placed the controversial Crymlyn Burrows Incinerator up for sale. Notices (such as this one) have appeared on-line advertising the sale of the share capital of Neath Port Talbot (Recycling) Limited, the company that owns and operates the troubled plant. Swansea Friends of the Earth, [...]
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End of PFI as we knew it?
UKWIN received the following from Jane Green of the Coventry 2020 Zero Waste Project: Dear All This week is set to mark the end of PFI as we’ve known it. A Panorama programme is due to air today (Monday 28th November 2011) that focusses on the subject of PFI contracts, and on Thursday (1st December) [...]
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Peel’s 200,000 tonne incinerator rejected in Urmston
Trafford Council’s planning committee voted unanimously to reject Peel’s proposal for a 200,000 tonne incinerator, described by Peel as the “Barton Energy Plant”, which would have primarily burned waste wood. The proposal was submitted in December 2010 for the Land to the South of Manchester Ship Canal and West of Barton Bridge, Davyhulme, Urmston, Trafford [...]
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SWARD to Instruct Barristers: The Fight Goes On
Campaign group SWARD (Safety in Waste and Rubbish Disposal) will today instruct barristers for legal opinion on their case against Gloucestershire County Council’s decision to grant planning permission for Grundon Waste Management to operate at Wingmoor Farm, Bishop’s Cleeve until 2029. Planning consent was granted after a tied vote and the Chairman of the Planning [...]
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Eunomia report highlights problem of incinerator overcapacity
Eunomia’s Residual Waste Infrastructure Review (£462, or free for the high-level version) predicts possible regional overcapacity for waste treatment capacity in 2015 and possible national overcapacity in 2020 (see Edie article). One of UKWIN’s argument against new incinerators is that after all viable reduction, re-use, recycling, composting, and anaerobic digestion has taken place there just [...]
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SWARD let down by Secretary of State
SWARD (Safety in Waste and Rubbish Disposal) have issued a press release explaining how shocked they are by the speed of the Secretary of State’s rejection of their request for a public inquiry into Grundon Waste Management’s application for 20 more years at its Wingmoor Farm site. Grundon is now set to continue to bring [...]
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ASA: Sita misled public over incinerator claims
ASA uphold complaints against Sita for misleading Shepperton ‘Eco Park’ marketing material SITA reliability and technology claims The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has today (26th October 2011) released their final review of the complaint regarding the October 2010 Newsletter from Sita UK Ltd. The complaint detailed misleading information supplied by Sita to residents about a [...]
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