At Oxford Brookes People and Planet we are currently running a camapaign against a proposal for an incinerator to be built in the Oxford area. the council DO have other options and we want them to instead consider Mechanical Biological Treatment for a solution to Oxfordshire's waste problems.
We are calling for as many concerned individuals and other environmental groups in oxford as possible to get involved, Lobby your Councillors and MP, sign the petition, distribute leaflets and posters to prevent the smoke!
See the website:
http://ox-incinerator.freehostia.com/
and email us at obsu.peopleplanet@brookes.ac.uk
if you are interested. The final decision by the council is being made on the 8TH JANUARY so the sooner the better!
Hope you can help!
I watched Didcots artificial cloud float over my house today and
wondered what if it were the smoke from a future incinerator, would
I feel like our councillor must that it really is oxfordshires best
"waste solution"? Apparantly,"mbt uses incineration in it's final
stage anyway".If that really is the case, non compostible wastes
should be eliminated altogether,so we must work harder on that
one.Packaging wastes, surplus building wastes, indeed everything
that we produce but fail to reduce, reuse, recycle or compost will
end up in an incinerator and produce who knos what to fallout who
knows where.
Pro-incinerator people seem to think it's an "energy-from-waste"
project, which is, if it works, a good idea.
Unfortunately, if we eliminate those items currently composted
or recycled at the kerb, we end up with plastic bags and dangerous
items which don't burn well. So I doubt we will really
see much power from it.
But the same is true of MBT: I'm not sure we'll have much waste
treatable by that means either.
But the worst is that the council has taken a very narrow view
of recycling: tonnage before sense. Items like consumer
batteries (AA cells) and low-power light bulbs are not kerbside
recycled, yet they contain hazardous materials banned from use
(RoHS directive). Batteries and lighting are excluded from
the ban, so these dangerous items need to be recycled safely.
Yet who is going down to the tip for just one tiny AA cell or light
bulb? Without kerbside recycling, most will go in the rubbish
bin.
This is what we'll be burning in the incinerator.
