1, Incineration or recycling?

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Incineration or recycling?

Incinerator

The County Council has named incineration as a possible technology to deal with the 90,000 tonnes of waste produced in Gloucestershire each year.

A recent question in Parliament revealed that the County Council is currently in the process of buying up land at Javelin Park in Quedgeley. The Javelin Park site, right on the border of Gloucester, has been earmarked by the County Council as a site for a ten storey incinerator, although other sites in Hempsted and Quedgeley are also on the list.

Parmjit has said that he thinks the County Council are wrong and incineration is not the answer.The county has a recycling rate of just 36% and Gloucester City’s rate is the worst in the whole county. Friends of the Earth say that there should be a local recycling target of at least 80%. And there are other technologies which do not involve incineration like ‘in-vessel composting’ or ‘gasification.’ But what do you think? Should we press the council to enhance recycling to 80% by the year 2020? What are your views on incineration?

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Ann Smith Message left at 10:29 pm, Fri 10th Oct 2008

We should provide more opportunities for recycling (improve amount of plastics, increase opportunities for food cartons). These should be accessible without needing a special car journey, or indeed any car journey, ie. add to kerbside collections. Then we should provide an incentive so that we pay for the amount of waste we throw away (ie. in black bins). In Scuol, in Switzerland, you can only put out rubbish for collection in special plastic bags, which you buy from the supermarket. The money you pay pays for the bag. It's amazing how keen on recycling you become once you can't just dump it all in a black bin! While I wouldn't want to see a return to plastic bags, there's no reason why we can't come up with a scheme where we pay proportionately according to how much rubbish we produce per household. This would also benefit pensioners and people living alone who would only pay for their share. It wouldn't benefit me as we have 3 kids!

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