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Bristol Against Mass Burn Incineration - the B.A.M.B.I-network - is an alliance of groups who are opposing the West of England Partnership plans to use incineration as a method of dealing with our residual waste. These plans are likely to include siting a 160,000-tonne capacity incinerator in Bristol.

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14th August 2008
16-08-08

 

From Kent Online

 

Kent County Council could be losing £1m a year as a result of a long-term waste disposal contract.

Ten years ago, the authority signed a 25-year deal with Kent Enviropower to provide them with 320,000 tonnes of waste to burn each year.

But what was initially seen as a cash-saving opportunity has quickly turned into a money pit, as the council is forced to send increasingly valuable recyclable material to the incinerator in order to meet its annual quota.

Although it was signed in 1998, the contract only came into effect recently as it took nearly ten years to apply for planning permission and building the incinerator, which has been dogged by controversy itself due to high levels of flies and foul odours.

Read more at:

http://www.kentonline.co.uk/kol08/article/default.asp?article_id=46264

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