New research recommends introduction of a UK-wide deposit refund scheme
The Campaign to Protect Rural England (CPRE) has today (Thursday, 16th September 2010) published new research that clearly demonstrates a drinks container deposit refund scheme (DRS, covering glass bottles, plastic bottles and cans) would cost little to set up, and would generate revenue to support most of its own running costs. Continue reading »
The GMB, described as Britain’s General Union, has announced that millions of households across the UK could face disruption to bin collection and other public services as Veolia’s entire workforce consider strike action over cuts in staff and pay. Continue reading »
The latest evidence submitted to the Public Inquiry by would-be Sherwood Forest Incinerator operators Veolia has failed to convince the competent authority, Natural England, that the proposed 180,000 tonne per annum waste incinerator would not contribute to severe adverse effects on the Important Bird Area that overlaps with Veolia’s chosen site (see map link below). Continue reading »
Gloucestershire Friends of the Earth believe that there needs to be a fundamental change in dealing with waste to enable the responsibility of decision making and action to be within small local communities. Continue reading »
According to Abby Gruen of The Star-Ledger, Covanta is being sued by Connecticut’s attorney general.
Covanta Energy, the operator of three incinerators in New Jersey, is being sued by the Connecticut State Attorney General Richard Blumenthal for emitting excessive levels of a carcinogen for the second time in three years at its incinerator in Wallingford, Connecticut in the USA.
The lawsuit was filed in August 2010 against Covanta on behalf of the state Department of Environmental Protection. The lawsuit explicitly names dioxin as the pollutant.
This is the second time the state of Connecticut has sued Covanta for exceeding emissions standards. The previous legal action was settled for $355,000 in 2009.
Paul Gilman, Covanta’s chief sustainability officer is reported as saying that the excess emissions of dioxin “were unacceptable to Covanta.” He said the emissions problem was caused by a failure of a system in one of the plant’s three generating units that inject carbon into emissions before they leave the plant’s smokestacks.
It is understood that the Wallingford incinerator has been shut down since 2nd July 2010 when Covanta noticed the excess dioxin emissions.
According to the New Jersey-based website:
Covanta operates waste-to-energy plants in Newark, Oxford and Rahway. The New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection is currently reviewing an air operating permit for the Covanta waste-to-energy plant in Newark’s Ironbound neighborhood in Essex County. The plant has a long history of pollution violations. A DEP spokeswoman said the decision to renew the permit is still under consideration.
According to Viridor’s Regional Communications Manager, Tessa Taylor:
Viridor has now formally appealed the decision by Bristol City Council to refuse planning permission for its resource recovery development at Severn Road, Avonmouth.
Viridor’s failed proposals include a 350,000 tonne per annum incinerator that was refused planning permission by Bristol City Council, who rejected Viridor’s planning application in June 2010.
The public inquiry into the appeal is scheduled to start on 30 November 2010. A final decision on the application is expected by summer 2011.
10 out of 10 Shropshire Councillors voted to refuse Veolia’s proposal for a 90,000 tonne per annum mass burn incinerator in North Shrewsbury at last night’s (1st September 2010) strategic planning committee meeting. Continue reading »
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