Looks like a nice big friendly squash court and very easy on the eye too! Aah..but thats not quite the point though is it? Why has it got a 65metre chimney? Sounds like the Victorian approach to me, ie: throw it up in the air and let the poor folk down wind deal with it! So when the wind is blowing south over Shrewsbury?
Unless the waste is proven DEFINATELY 100 per cent safe to inhale and won’t harm me or my family or the environment nor lie in the soil to harm the food chain then it must be scrapped.
Also if this spineless ‘big brother’ government put some real pressure on the supermarkets to ditch much of its unnecessary and pointless packaging we would go a long way to easing the land fill problem anyway.

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It’s a beautiful design. And, based on that, I support its errection.

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I suggest that Mr J looks at the infant mortality rates in electoral wards upwind and downwind of Coventry incinerator.

The highest infant mortality wards in Coventry “just happen to be” downwind of the incinerator while the zero infant death wards “just happen to be” upwind.

It’s the same tale at Sita’s incinerator at Kirklees and also elsewhere.

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What lovely illustrations. But to get the full effect one additional step is necessary.

Save some waste from your kitchen. Ideally let it sit somewhere warm for a week or two.

Then while viewing the pictures hold the rubbish directly under your nose. Now you have the full effect.

And if you think this won’t be the case, just remember that these things need a constant stream of rubbish, so it will have to be stored somewhere nearby. And it will break down occasionally leading to a backlog.

As to what comes out… if it’s so clean maybe the on-site offices could be heated with it.

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you say its meant to be eco-friendly wheres all the smoke going to go??

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Hmmmmmmmmmm looks ok but looks decieve! does anyone know just what toxic gases will be released into the atmosphere? although I sure Michael Ryan will have a good idea.

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This is not going to encourage recycling and for supermarkets to use less packaging. It needs feeding. Why is it being built so close to homes? Hardly fair on the people who have to live there.

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Captain Chaos might be surprised that there’s no continous monitoring of stacktop PM2.5 emissions from any incinerator on UK mainland.

So how would you check if the emissions were harming health or not?

Just assume that there’s no problem?

Assume that there might be but it’s best to leave the issue alone?

Examine rates of illness & premature deaths at electoral ward level around existing incinerators & see what that data tells you?

Allow yourself to be persuaded that there’s no problem?

Ask the Shropshire Star to reproduce the ward map of Shropshire that Ben Bentley left my house with on 7 Jan 2009 which showed infant mortality rates in 139 electoral wards in Shropshire and the 26 wards in Stafford District Council as well as the locations of 2 incineratrors & one power station?

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idon’tbelieveit, totally agree with you. It has not been proven completely safe and it’s just not fair that people in that area are made to live next to it. Give me a wind farm any day over this monster. I couldn’t careless what it looks like, it’s what it might do to peoples health.

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i urge anyone living in Harlescott to look up the word dioxins on google, read about the Seveso industrial accident, read about the burning of rubbish in Napoli and the impact on the local buffalo mozzerella, then think about your children growing up exposed to that background level of dioxin for years, and all because the public and the tory council are too cheap and lazy to provide proper recycling services, i live near Congelton now, the council there collect, batteries, waste electrical items, plastic (all sorts of plastic), ink jet cartridges, tetra pak, paper, cans, aerosols, glass, and more for recycling AND they collect our rubbish EVERY week stll! people of Shrewsbury, people of Harlescott especially, you are being given a cheap option, not a green option, not a clean option, your health is being jeopordised because they cant be bothered to organise decent recycling schemes, shame on them

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why do we need a french company to run our rubbish service, its a shame on both red and blue governments for 20 years we used to lead the world in power generation, nuclear, aircraft, automobiles, and all sorts of clever engineering, now we have to pay the french to build it for us, its no wonder there’s no jobs. i for one would like to see a party who stands up for british jobs and developes a strategy and action plan to restore british industry, bring back the manufacturing sector from shanghai, lets get a UK owned car company up and running again, lets lead the world in the green revolution with green collar jobs for the British worker, lets not buy our power and our skilled jobs from the french

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it looks very nice almost identical to the ultra modern hotel planned for smithfield rd salop. where are the windows

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looks pretty slick. modern shiny nice

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Something disturbing in the air

24th June 2005
Fine particles measuring 2.5µ or less (PM2.5s) have been linked to a number of diseases because of their ability to enter deep into the lung. PM2.5s are released into the atmosphere when oil and solvent-based fuel mixes are burnt in industrial processes such as smelting, metals processing and by waste energy plants and incinerators. In the last 10 years, say experts, they have risen ‘astronomically’ in the UK.
Dr Dick van Steenis, an independent UK-based toxicology researcher, claims anything smaller than PM3 is capable of penetrating the lung where it causes serious health problems. PM2.5s containing heavy metals, polyaromatic hydrocarbons, pesticides, radioactivity and electromagnetic charges can lead to cancers, asthma, allergies, type 2 diabetes, birth defects, brain damage, immune system problems, heart disease, autism and multiple sclerosis, he says. Insoluble PM2.5s build up in the lung and can potentially cause chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, suffered by one-in-10 UK 20-year-olds.
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Here’s another snippet from the Chartered Institute of Environmental Health’s journal:

Whiff of scandal over French incinerator

3rd June 2005
Senior French officials are among those facing questions over a now defunct incinerator in Gilly-sur-Isère, which has been linked to high rates of cancer and other health problems locally. Among the 1,800 inhabitants of the nearby village of Grignon, there have been 78 cancer cases in the past 10 years, including 24 people in one street of 80 houses downwind from the incinerator.
Now, nearly four years after it closed, France’s highest court, the Cour de Cassation, is looking into the plant. The inquiry has raised questions over whether it should have been built in a narrow valley with turbulent winds. It has also uncovered neglect of operating procedures, with plant workers found to have deactivated the filters at night to make the waste burn faster.
The court, according to press reports, also found that, for over 15 years, local officials refused to measure the incinerator’s emissions. When they finally did, the first test found dioxin levels were 13,000 times the permitted norm.
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Now would the UK ever cover up health damage from incinerators or power stations??????????

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Michael, on point number 27, you said that particulate matter could travel for miles and still have a measurable health effect. Is this a quanttative model, and if so what will the measurable health effect be?

wouldnt this have been covered already in the local waste strategy or through planning?

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