That resistance now includes the Chancellor, George Osborne, who has added his support to campaigners against a new incinerator in his Cheshire constituency. The Liberal Democrats have have opposed incineration at national and local levels. Political support for incineration looks increasingly uncertain as the amount of waste generated each year by households has been falling steadily and recycling rates increasing. Waste companies however claim there will always be a limit to how much rubbish can be recycled at around 70 per cent of what we throw away leaving millions of tonnes each year as a valuable untapped energy resource.
Julian Kirby, Friends of the Earths resource use campaigner, rejects industry claims that incinerators could help remove 34 million tonnes of CO2 from the atmosphere by preventing rubbish being buried in the ground where it continues to produce harmful greenhouse gases. Scratch the surface and you see that, because of all the oil-based materials they burn, such as plastics, they emit a third more CO2 than gas-fired power stations. Add in emissions from biogenic materials such as paper, textiles and food, and they can be more than twice as bad as coal-fired power stations, he said.
But with further capacity for 1.2 million tonnes of waste-burning already planned, the industry is not having it all its own way despite the backing of business leaders including the CBI, which earlier this year urged councils to bury their objections to building new incinerators.
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