And the waste industry is promising a step change in burning Britains annual rubbish mountain. It believes that many more will still be needed in the medium term to meet the previous governments goal of turning 25 per cent of municipal waste into energy to heat homes and provide electricity over the next decade, and prevent Britain from paying millions of pounds in future EU landfill fines.
The UK Without Incineration Network has 80 active groups opposing local developments. One of its co-ordinators, Shlomo Dowen, a former teacher, opposes a new incinerator on a former mine near his home in Sherwood Forest in Nottinghamshire. The campaign is becoming a test of wills between local people and big business, he said.
This about people power. Typically people start off from a situation of not giving much thought to what happens to their waste when it goes in the bin. They dont know and they dont want to know.
But when an incinerator is proposed they become alarmed at the health impact and this gets them to take to the internet. Then they realise they are very expensive and that there are other viable alternatives such as anerobic digestion which is renewable.
No one is arguing that incinerators improve peoples health. The debate is about how much local peoples health will be depreciated.
The waste companies underestimate the level of resistance. They dont care as passionately as people do for their own neighbourhood. To them its just a job. The more people scrutinise the process the more likely it is to come off the rails.
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