Mayday Mayday: Invasion of the Climate Snatchers...
1st May 2008 - Day of Action Against False Solutions to Climate Change
Incineration
Desperate to met EU targets on recycling and trying to look good on climate change a number of councils are now seeing Incineration as the next panacea. The fact that heat or power produced from buring our ever increasing amount of rubbish is used, means that many councils are now claiming that rubbish is a renewable fuel.
Although ‘energy from waste’ incinerators produce energy, this is only a tiny fraction of the energy needed to make products from raw materials. To manufacture newsprint takes over two and a half times the amount of energy generated by burning it. Manufacturing glass takes 30 times the energy generated by burning it, and making aluminium 350 times the amount of energy generated when it is burnt.
According to the US Environmental Protection Agency, there is “little to choose” between landfill and incineration in terms of greenhouse gas emissions. A recent study for the Community Recycling Network found that landfilling and incineration of untreated waste were the worst ways of dealing with residual waste in terms of climate change.
Incineration also produces lots of other pollutants, including Sulphar dioxide, Nitrous oxides, Dioxins, PCB's, Lead and Mercury.
There are lots of groups around the country working on local incineration
campaigns.
CHAIN (Cheshire)
GAIN (Guilford)
STIG (St Denis)
NAIL (Nottingham)
SAIN (Slough)
BRAINs (Buckinghamshire)
RAIN (Cheshire)
DOVE (Brighton)
BBAC (Basingstoke)
London
Shropshire
HOTI (Hull)
Capel Action Group (Surrey)
For an anti incineration briefing from FoE
www.foe.co.uk/resource/briefings/myth_incineration_recycling.pdf
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