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Viridor Consultation
The site of Viridor's upcoming planning applications for new and enhanced waste management sites in various parts of the UK.
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The Health Effects of Waste Incinerators
Report by the British Society of Ecological Medicine, second edition in, June 2008. Also responses from Enviros and the HPA, as well as replies to those responses.
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Devon County Council Waste Local Plan 2006 - Proposals Map: New England Quarry
This pdf document includes a map of the proposed site.
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GAIA: An Industry Blowing Smoke
10 reasons why gasification, pyrolysis and plasma incineration are not 'green solutions'
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The Pembina Institute et al: Incineration of Municipal Solid Waste
A coalition of six environmental organizations including the Pembina Institute, the David Suzuki Foundation, Sierra Legal, Toronto Environmental Alliance, Canadian Environmental Law Association and Great Lakes United produced this 4-part fact sheet series covering the following four areas:
* Impact on Global Warming
* Understanding the Costs and Financial Risks
* A Reasonable Energy Option?
* An Update on Pollution
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England and Wales Incineration Throughput - 2006
This document shows that in 2006 the South West had something to be proud of - much fewer incinerators than the rest of the country.
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Friends of the Earth Briefing: Landfill Allowance Trading Scheme
An explanation of how LATS works and the best way for councils to meet those targets.
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UK-Plymouth: residual waste treatment and disposal contract - Invitation to Tender Notice
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SWDWP - Waste PFI - Options Appraisal and Technical Modelling Assumptions
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DEFRA Research: Environmental and health effects of waste management
This is the government's independent report into the health effects of incineration, which is often quoted from. It was written by Envros Consulting Ltd - who has big clients that are incinerator providers. Mark Broomfield, technical director of Enviros and the lead author of the report has worked for ICI and 4 incinerator companies (WRG, Sita, Biffa & HLC). How can Enviros be classed as an independent body?
Also pay attention to the full review of the Royal Society which states amongst other things 'several omissions in the report mean it offers incomplete guidance to those making policy decisions on waste management strategies and is potentially misleading both for national policy and for local authorities.' Also 'We are particularly concerned about how uncertainties have been expressed in the quantification of the health impacts. The uncertainties in the data have been inadequately expressed in the results of the quantification and, more worryingly, data have been extrapolated to quantify the health impacts when the uncertainties demonstrate that this is inappropriate.'
Elliot Morley, Minister of State for Environment & Agri-Environment's forward to the report states 'I believe that this report does give us sufficient confidence in our current policies for local authorities to press ahead urgently with the task of approving planning applications for new management facilities. Among the conclusions to be draw, the report shows that risks to human health from incineration are small in comparison with other known risks. We must acknowledge the role of incineration with energy recovery as a sustainable waste management option although the priority must be waste minimisation, reuse and recycling. Incineration is an option for dealing with the residual waste that will still be left even after achieving the much higher levels of recycling and reuse we are aiming for and to help absorb the diversion of municipal waste from landfill which we are required to make under the Landfill Directive.'
This statement by Morley suggests that the government already had the strategy to encourage local authorities to adopt incineration, and they were looking for a report to justify this, the motivation being meeting the Landfill Directive to avoid paying penalties. How this report can lead him to say that the risks to human health from incineration are small when The Royal Society has explicitly stated they are 'particularly concerned about how uncertainties have been expressed in the quantification of the health impacts' I fail to understand.
This document is very important - it is the government's defence in supporting the policy of incineration. This is the source of our local problems in fighting incineration applications today.
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House of Commons Waste Incineration Research Paper 02/34 (May 2002)
Tracing the trail back to the decision that the UK was going to be filled with incinerators, I found this House of Commons research paper from 2002. At that time there were 11 MSW incinerators in England and Wales burning a total of 2,645 thousand tonnes of waste each year, as well as 2 in Scotland burning a total of 226 thousands tonnes per year - therefore a total of 13 incinerators burning a total of 2,871 thousand tonnes per year, which is 220 thousand tonnes per incinerator.
The Energy from Waste Association estimates in the document that the sum total of incineration capacity including all proposed and operational incinerators was 6,911 thousand tonnes per year. Estimates in the document for the future number of incinerators in the UK mention 100 to 112 in total. The average size of a MSW incinerator today is mentioned in the document as approximately 200 thousand tonnes per annum.
If the average of 200 thousand tonnes per incinerator is correct and we were to have 100 incinerators of this size in the future, that would mean 20,000,000 tonnes of waste being burnt a year some time in the future. In summary, it looks like we could be in for a near ten fold increase in the levels of pollution from incineration in the UK compared to 2002 levels. Keep this in mind when the government uses comparison tables to prove the safety of incineration.
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Environmental Audit Committee - Air Quality
This new report is of extreme importance. In particular pay attention to the section 'Assisting Local Authorities' which includes the following statements:
54. The planning process also offers an important opportunity for local and regional authorities to influence air quality. Oral evidence set out that local authorities and the Environment Agency do not adequately consider air quality in the planning process. The Government must urgently explore how planning guidance can be strengthened and applied to reduce air pollution. [49]
55. The Government's core policies and principles for planning and pollution control are set out in Planning Policy Statement 23 (PPS23). Planning Authorities must take this into account when preparing Regional Spatial Strategies and Local Development Frameworks. DCLG provides guidance on pollution control in PPS23 and Defra has provided guidance on using the planning system to develop low emission strategies and improve air quality.[50] Despite this guidance, not all local authorities are developing the required links between the air quality professionals, transport planners, climate change officers and development control planners.[51] There is scope for sharing best practice on developing these links though the Low Emissions Strategies Partnership that provides a forum for examining local authority air quality issues.[52]
56. Local authorities are key to improving air quality. The Government must raise the profile of air quality with all local authorities, encourage the sharing of best practice and ensure that the issue is given sufficient attention across all areas of local authority responsibility, not just within their environmental departments.
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Accelerating the Uptake of Anaerobic Digestion in England: an Implementation Plan (25/03/10)
This DEFRA published Implementation Plan provides a framework for action by Government and stakeholders to facilitate the uptake of anaerobic digestion in England.
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WRAP Gate Fees Report 2009
Comparing the costs of alternative waste treatment options.
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WRAP: Environmental Benefits of Recycling (March 2010)
An updated review of life cycle comparisons for key materials in the UK recycling sector.
In 2006 WRAP published a major research report, Environmental Benefits of Recycling, based on an international review of life cycle analyses (LCA) that evaluated the impact on the environment of recycling, landfilling or incineration of key materials in UK waste streams. The review assessed 55 ‘state of the art’ LCAs on paper and cardboard, glass, plastics, aluminium, steel, wood and aggregates. The conclusion was clear – most studies show that recycling offers more environmental benefits and lower environmental impacts than the other waste management options.
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When the EU wastes the climate - June 2010
GAIA’s new report warns about the negative impacts on the climate and sustainability stemming from current EU policies to reward energy from incineration.
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