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Why do we have to pay the price for packaging?
8:16am Thursday 21st August 2008
SIR – Reading “Where will they put incinerator to burn waste” (Worcester News, August 15) made me feel as if I live amongst the living dead.
Councillor Prodger said: “Consultants have been employed to assess an energy from waste facility (to) incinerate nonrecyclable household rubbish.”
Councillor Tarbuck said: “Dioxin emissions are well below EU requirements, it can take 200,000 tonnes of landfill waste per year.”
Why is it that those who manage our affairs cannot even get the basics correct?
It is not non-recyclable household rubbish. It is non-recyclable supermarket packaging.
Why aren’t the supermarkets forced to use recyclable alternatives?
Why isn’t packaging returned to the supermarkets for disposal?
Why is public money being spent on consultants and a huge industrial plant to dispose of commerce’s nonrecyclable packaging?
Dioxins are the most carcinogenic substances known. There is no safe level for emissions or consequential accretion in the local environment.
How many will die of dioxin-induced carcinomas? Why are supermarkets permitted to dump 200,000 tonnes of non-recyclable packaging into Worcestershire’s environment annually?
Why are our politicians adding to global warming, via mass incineration, when the people are taxed on their carbon dioxide emissions?
N TAYLOR,
Worcester.
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