The company behind plans to build a waste incinerator in Shrewsbury today said an exhibition will be held this week for the public to see its proposals.
Veolia Environmental Services, the contractors for Shropshire Waste Partnership, will shortly apply to planning bosses to build the incinerator at Battlefield.
A public exhibition for people to find out about the plans will take place in Shrewsbury on Thursday at the Household Recycling Centre office block on the Battlefield Enterprise Park from 3pm to 7pm.
It will also be held at the Lantern on Meadow Farm Drive from 3pm to 7pm on Friday and from 9.30am to 1pm on Saturday.
Catherine Slaytor, spokeswoman for Veolia Environmental Services, said: “Veolia ES Shropshire will shortly be submitting a planning application for an energy from waste facility at Battlefield Enterprise Park, Shrewsbury.
“We are encouraging residents to find out first-hand about the proposed energy-from-waste facility by visiting our public exhibition on January 15, 16 and 17.
“Residents can talk to experts in the field, find out about our long-term investment in Shropshire’s waste infrastructure and have their questions answered.”
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Can Veoila’s most competent expert debate the health effects of incineration with Dr Dick van Steenis in a public forum in the evening when we can get a few hundred people to attend?
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Went to an incinerator exhibition before …………… It was rubbish! ( boom boom)
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J Epidemiol. 2004 May;14(3):83-93.
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Risk of adverse reproductive outcomes associated with proximity to municipal solid waste incinerators with high dioxin emission levels in Japan.
Tango T, Fujita T, Tanihata T, Minowa M, Doi Y, Kato N, Kunikane S, Uchiyama I, Tanaka M, Uehata T.
Department of Technology Assessment and Biostatistics, National Institute of Public Health, Wako, Saitama, Japan.
BACKGROUND: Great public concern about health effects of dioxins emitted from municipal solid waste incinerators has increased in Japan. This paper investigates the association of adverse reproductive outcomes with maternal residential proximity to municipal solid waste incinerators.
Our study shows a peak-decline in risk with distance from the municipal solid waste incinerators for infant deaths and infant deaths with all congenital malformations combined.
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Come on - Shrewsbury needs it own incinerator instead of trying to campaige for it to be built in telford.
Its time people realized that if you create the waste then it should rightly be disposed of on your doorstep no matter the harmful pollutants which may or may not exist
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Long list, Mr Ryan. Now, exactly what does it mean? Might be relevant if the proposed incinerator is to be of the same type mentioned in the report from Japan. But is it? Or not?
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The above Japanese study found that living near incinerators meant a greater risk of babies dying before their first birthday.
The Office for National Statistics data shows exactly the same here in England & Wales.
How would you tell whether an incinerator was causing harm to health or not?
Would you look in the small print?
Phone a friend?
Ask the local Primary Care Trust?
Believe what the incinerator promoter tells you?
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There’s a plasma gasification plant due to completion this year in Hirwaun, South Wales.
As far as I’m aware, it will be the first such plant in the UK.
Shropshire County Council know very well that Dr Dick van Steenis was my expert witness at the Public Inquiry for the Shropshire Waste Plan in January 2004 and that the Inspector asked Dr van Steenis if a plasma gasification plant could be accommodated on the land earmarked for a waste disposal site at Harlescott.
Residents in Shropshire should be looking at the baseline health data at electoral ward level before any new hazards are introduced. That means looking at rates of childhood asthma, heart attack, stroke, diabetes 2, infant mortality, depression, COPD etc. - ie all things that are caused by exposure to industrial PM2.5 emissions.
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Michael, i read the article you listed. It said that there is an association between reduced risk and distance from the incinerator, but they clearly state that they cant attribute the risk to the incinertor.
Do you know of any UK or European study that clearly demonstrates risk to health?
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