Representation by Beatrice White
- Date submitted
- 9 October 2022
- Submitted by
- Members of the public/businesses
Registration comments Incineration is a Thermo-decompositon process where the components present in the waste stream are ionised into the harmless elements at a higher temperature in the presence of oxygen which will have an extremely negative impact and causing Air Pollution. Toxic Smoke being released into the atmosphere that we breath during the burning process! The smoke produced includes, Acid Gases, Carcinogen Dioxin, Particles, Heavy Metals and Nitrogen Oxide to name a few. Respiratory Problems, Increased Cancer Rates, Reproductive Abnormalities that are common in areas where incinerator plants are built. It's very expensive not just financially but also to the whole environment within a 50 mile radius and further (we have all seen red dust on our cars that has been carried across the sea from foreign lands so please just reflect on that for a moment) the effects will have a huge Impact on wild life and animals and birds, some of which will be sold and eaten from shops, supermarkets and butchers to name a few. Schools will be affected and that's the future generation thus Damaging Public Health. Ash Waste can also be potentially harmful to people and the environment in surrounding communities and areas due to several Poisons and Heavy Metals which will require further treatment. Increased Traffic causing even more congestion on quaint little Fenland country roads which will have a negative impact on the community both private and commercial. Environmental Racism will be caused and an already economically and socially deprived area will suffer even further due to no one wanting to work or live in a highly contaminated, empty and dangerous to health place to live. Regardless of what is being burnt (mixed municipal solid waste, plastic, outputs from chemical recycling) waste incineration creates and/or releases harmful chemicals and pollutants, including: Air Pollutants such as particulate matter which causes Lung and Heart diseases. Seriously, would You like to have this abomination forced on your DOORSTEP?