Incineration: an unacceptable practice in the 21st Century
A public talk by Paul Connett
Paul Connett is a Professor of Environmental Chemistry at St Lawrence University, New York State, USA
The talk will take place:
Friday 27 March, 7.30 pm
Alington Hall, Shrewsbury School,
SHREWSBURY SY3 7BA
Planning applications have been received for burner-incinerators at Battlefield, Shrewsbury and Granville, Telford.
Find out from a renowned international expert why incineration as a form of waste management is the worst possible option for our communities.
Discover the sustainable, cheaper and safer alternatives.
For more information contact:
Safe Waste in Shropshire 01743 243167 safe_waste_shropshire@yahoo.com or Telford PAIN info@telfordpain.co.uk
Visit www.safewasteshropshire.co.uk and www.telfordpain.co.uk
Professor Connett is a respected expert on waste management and has argued persuasively in 50 countries and 49 US states against incineration (often called ‘energy from waste’ to sell it to the public) as a method of waste management on cost, health and environmental grounds. In over 2000 pro bono presentations he has argued for five principles, or imperatives, that need to be applied in order to solve the waste crisis in an environmentally sound and economically cost effective manner. These include keeping solutions simple, local, sustainable and integrated within the local economy and its development.
Planning applications have been recently submitted by large multi-national corporations to build and manage incinerators in both Shrewsbury (Battlefield) and Telford (Granville). The West Midlands currently has the biggest concentration of existing and proposed incinerators in the UK and Professor Connett’s talk is both very timely and urgently necessary when many people in the region have heard only the incinerator companies’ side of the story.
Safe Waste in Shropshire and Telford People against Incineration jointly invite the people of Shropshire and Telford/Wrekin to attend Professor Connett’s talk and learn more about why both the new Shropshire Council and Telford and Wrekin Council must think twice about allowing the planning applications for these two destructive and wasteful plants.
http://www.stlawu.edu/faculty/profiles/connett.html
Paul Connett has received numerous awards and citations for his work, and frequently participates in community discussions on fluoridation. A graduate of Cambridge University, Connett holds a Ph.D. from Dartmouth College and joined the faculty at St. Lawrence in 1983. Connett’s opposition to incineration as a method of managing solid waste, based on his chemical analysis of the byproducts of the process, has taken him to 49 US states, five Canadian provinces and 50 countries. He has given over 2000 pro bono public presentations, written many articles on dioxin and waste management and co-produced several videotapes on those topics, as a result of that research.
One point. It has been discussed previously, pre AGM; please could SWS/TPAIN look at videoing Paul’s presentation for sequenced Google/UTube upload via sites, UKWIN etc- with common benefits/reference for other groups. Paul’s views/responses on fine particle PM2.5, ultrafine and nano particle pathways (nanopathology/ESEM Montanari/Gatti research aspects) would be of significant interest; if SWS/TPAIN have questions to put. Thanks