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New map shows over 100 communities, including Oxfordshire
villages, threatened by rubbish burners
Campaigners today launched a new map of planned rubbish-burning
sites across the UK revealing that more than 100 communities, including
the villages of Ardley and Sutton Courtenay in Oxfordshire, are
threatened by the prospect of a polluting incinerator in their back
yard - and Ministers have pledged more than £2 billion for these
initiatives despite cutting recycling budgets by 30 per cent.
The map, published by a network of anti-incineration campaigners,
shows the whereabouts of planned incinerators that would each cost many
millions of pounds, burn thousands of tonnes of valuable resources and
emit huge quantities of greenhouse gases.
Councils claim they need to build incinerators in order to meet UK
and EU targets to keep waste out of landfill, but campaigners believe
there are greener and cheaper ways of meeting waste targets.
Andrew Wood, Oxford Friend's of the Earth's Waste & Recycling
Campaigner said:
“It’s insane for the Government and local councils to waste taxpayers’
money on expensive pollution-belching rubbish burners. Incineration is
a problem for climate change, not a solution, and will send valuable
recyclable resources up in smoke.
The Government should abandon this wasteful and old-fashioned
technology by stopping all incinerator funding and investing in real
green alternatives.”
Shlomo Dowen, Co-ordinator of the UK Without Incineration Network (UK
WIN), said:
“UK WIN helps anti-incineration campaigners across the country to keep
their communities incinerator-free. People who are concerned about
incineration should check the map
to see if anything is proposed in their neighbourhood, then follow the
links provided to link up with other local campaigners.”
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