We forget about 70s incinerator

With all the talk about an incinerator have people forgotten that Telford had an incinerator in the late 70s, or early 80s, which also had a small animal carcass incinerator built on the side.

This was knocked down because, I believe, it was cheaper to bury waste in the many holes produced by mineral extraction in Shropshire, which enabled people to make money by extraction and then make money by filling the holes with rubbish, which are still producing ozone depleting gases.

Waste recycling is big money-making business and large cities that have no holes to fill in are building state of the art incinerators with electro-static precipitation of dust particles and burning at a temperature that can destroy many of the toxins in the waste and produce energy to put back into the grid.

Also waste ashes are only a 10 to 20 per cent of the mass burnt, which can be used for many purposes.

Mr Phillips, Ironbridge