01 August 2010

UK may have to import rubbish for incinerators

'.. Environmental groups are demanding an end to the building of new waste incinerators, which they say will undermine recycling. Experts question whether Britain will produce enough household waste to fuel energy-from-waste plants as the country improves its recycling efforts. And they warn that waste will have to be diverted from sustainable recycling schemes or imported from elsewhere to keep a rash of new planned waste incinerators working ..'

This is surely just a natural progression from earlier issues about ESCC capping recycling so that more rubbish can be channelled to the Newhaven incinerator

'.. county council has this week (March 17) disputed claims by Lewes Liberal Democrats that its current recycling credits scheme is limiting the amount of waste that can be recycled in the county in order to ensure enough material for the energy-from-waste facility at Newhaven ..'

ESCC plans overhaul of Waste Collection Authority (WCA) recycling incentives

Let us not forget that the major residue with incineration is ash and this is one of the materials ESCC intends to use in land raise sites

'.. for every four tons of trash burned you get at least one ton of ash: 90% is called bottom ash (that is the ash collected under the furnace) and 10% is the very toxic fly ash. ..'

Although we have already addressed this issue in the past a timely reminder might be in order

ESCC Newhaven Incinerator Dangerous Residues and Emissions

Unfortunately having made a questionnable decision in the first place about building the incinerator (in the face of about 14,000 ignored objections) it now seems as though East Sussex County Council (ESCC) intends to compound the the issue by dumping the highly toxic ash residue on land raise sites in the Low Weald

Don't think that you will not be affected because Newhaven is a few miles away from where you live - ESCC Newhaven Incinerator - Do You Think You Are Safe From Contamination

Just how stupid can ESCC get?

December 2009

The International Solid Waste Association (ISWA) White Paper on Waste and Climate Change puts forth the technologies and mechanisms which can transform the waste sector into a net global reducer of GHG emissions, and making the necessary commitments to assist this change

ISWA White Paper on Waste and Climate Change (PDF - 4Mb)

Wednesday 7 April 2010

'.. pick up a new brochure of guided walks and environmental events ..'

'.. environmental events ..' - does this mean ESCC are going to introduce a new spectator sport of watching trucks dump rubbish in land raise sites?

Have East Sussex County Council got their wires crossed; or perhaps it is Councillor Matthew Lock's 'last and final offer' to explore the Low Weald before introducing land raise and destroying this unique environment

Doesn't it strike one as odd that the very same person advocating 'Exploring East Sussex' (Councillor Matthew Lock) is the same person who:

• seems to be in charge of the land raise debacle

• was in charge of ignoring over 14,000 objections with the Newhaven incinerator (Newhaven incinerator fallout area)

If ESCC and Councillor Lock carry on like this there will only be a very small area of East Sussex that they have not affected. The disappointing aspect is that Councillor Lock is not even from this area of the country in the first place; so he has no heritage to worry about or preserve

ESCC Press release: Explore East Sussex this summer

Landfill/Landraise produces significant amounts of methane gas, along with leachate, a toxic liquid that comes out of all that compressed waste

Leachate is full of organic and inorganic pollutants, including toluene, phenols, benzene, ammonia, dioxins, polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), chlorinated pesticides, heavy metals and endocrine-disrupting chemicals.

Scientists are now beginning to discover that exposure to chemicals - indoors, outside, at work and even in the womb is a major contributor to chronic diseases

Have a look at the following CHE Toxicant and Disease Database which is searchable database that summarizes links between chemical contaminants and approximately 180 human diseases or conditions

The evidence is mounting that environmental contaminants play a major role in the risk of developing cancer. A study by researchers at the University of Liverpool has now found that exposure to even small amounts of environmental contaminants in air, food and water may increase the risk of cancer, especially in infants and young adults.

Furthermore, the World Health Organization (WHO) has released a report stating that one-quarter of the world's disease burden - and one-third of the disease burden among children - is due to environmental factors that could be modified

Why would ESCC want to inflict these types of diseases on the population of East Sussex

ESCC are expected to be our guardians NOT poison the ratepayers

Where an individual or community group is affected by a polluting development their right to private and family life under Article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR), and the right to enjoyment of possessions under Article 1, Protocol 1, may be violated by that project

"Article 1 of the first Protocol of Human Rights Act (1998) - protects the right of an individual to quiet enjoyment and freedom from interference of his property except in public interest."

Land Raise at the suggested sites is not in the public interest, hugely polluting and could be banned totally before these sites are half full - how can they be justified?

Quote:

'.. the possible problems of landfilling are of increasing concern. These concerns include the possible adverse health effects arising from living in the vicinity of municipal solid waste (MSW) landfills.

Human exposure to potential landfill emissions by respiratory, gastrointestinal or dermal mechanisms warrants further investigation ...

Preliminary data from human toxicology pathway-specific microarrays indicate landfill PM10 presents a comparable geobiological insult to urban PM10 in a human tracheobronchial tissue model ..'