“What on earth is this doing on the North Devon local news website.”

“What are the cheaper cleaner and more cost effective solutions?
I, like many but not all, recycle most of my waste. We have a box for paper and card, and one for tins and all bottles and tinfoil, one for food waste and a compost heap for the rest.
We have reduced our non recyclables by over 90%. If eveyone did the same....problem solved.
No waste disposal is environmentally un damaging, the answer is reduce, reuse and recycle, and use biodegradable materials, and recycle the rest.
We are way behind many countries on this e.g. free plastic supermarket bags have been banned in Germany for more than 20 years.”

“It's not madness, its the neverending quest for profit. 'Energy' from waste has nothing whatsoever to do with benefiting anyone other than shareholders. Every other stage of the process involves people paying the incinerator operator to either dispose of the waste or to sell the energy by-products (originally owned by the waste-holder) back to various users.

A combination of ignorance and secrecy keeps the majority of people from realising their own rubbish is paid for many times over and then released into the atmosphere to be evenly spread over their homes, their fields and their children too. A perfect scenario for the money hungry contractors who have shareholders to pay each year.

Its like landfill but you fill nothing - instead, you coat it with very thin layers over a long period of time. In that time, though, it comes back to haunt you in the form of respiratory diseases, cancers and many other terrible ailments. Even damage to building structures and vehicles from the increases acidity in the atmosphere as the emissions inter-react with other airborne particles.

Personally, I value the healthy life of my children far higher than the profits of a German energy company as it the case in Plymouth.

We need to work hard on recycling now, because in a very short while there will be little left to recycle and the cost of renewing it will be prohibitive as natural resources begin to dry up.

Actually you are right - incineration on this scale is sheer madness

Plymouth - space of waste”

“Unfortunately you are not alone...councils up and down the country are blindly going down this route in such an unbelievably blinkered fashion.

We must continue to fight to stop these monstrocities being built and causing more harm to our communities. Its all about the operators making a profit.

Stop these incinerators!”